Apparently not content for musicals like "Evita," "Phantom of the Opera and Starlight Expressss" to be his only gifts to posterity, Andrew Lloyd Webber has decided to make a more easily quantifiable contribution to British culture: he has said he will donate 32 million - nearly $52 million - to arts organizations in his home country, BBC News reported.
Feyerabend was still attached to "scientific" philosophy, and considered philosophy worthless unless it made a positive and quantifiable contribution to the growth of knowledge (which, of course, meant science).
Specifically, three points will be emphazised: (i) the impact of continuous predictors on fMRI signal, (ii) the control of variation within experimental conditions due to known features of complex stimuli and (iii) the isolation of specific contributions by quantifiable features of single complex stimuli, especially in the case of stimuli sampled from a pool of natural items.
There is considerable variance in the measurement of social entrepreneurship having measurements range from qualitative assessments such as the nature of innovation, the fit of opportunity with the community's objectives, and the implementation strategies to the more easily quantifiable targets like the total contribution and the size of donation.
For eight years now, he has been celebrated for intangibles, for contributions that are not quantifiable.
The only stipulation is that the resulting contribution be "substantial"—a weaker formulation than the original German wish for a contribution that is "'substantial, quantifiable, reliable and voluntary".
If the pipeline model of research use were correct, it would be possible to demonstrate the impact of research on policy and the value of research would be judged on its contribution to policy and its quantifiable impact [ 25].
"Each spouse brings in their own contribution, even if one is less quantifiable".
The incentive to examine BDIMs in detail stems from at least two fundamental questions: i) are the above elementary evolutionary mechanisms sufficient to account for the empirically observed characteristics of genomes, ii) what is the contribution of natural selection to the general, quantifiable features of genomes, such as the size distribution of gene families.
In my view, this masks a more pressing issue, which is that metrics are most applicable to those disciplines that 'chunk' their outputs into easily quantifiable forms, with quantifiable relationships to one another, with quantifiable citation practices, quantifiable ish) contributions of academics to the research, and so on.
