The number goes up to 100,000 if adjacent satellite areas are taken into account, ranking it as the seventh largest independent urban area in Portugal, within a polycentric agglomeration of about 3 million people, ranging from Braga to Porto.
In the wired world, Nash believes, reading has become ever more like writing — readers can increasingly comment on what they read, rate it, rank it, re-mix it into fan-fiction or rewrite it entirely and post it online or even self-publish it.
At a moment when the military is struggling to recruit new members into its ranks, it closes its doors to thousands of potential soldiers and sailors.
Imagine if you invested all of that time and money into ranking for it organically only to find out it was a dud -- that would be a huge waste, right?
The 10 stocks with the best combined ranking make it into my Greenblatt-based portfolio.
Not only does it aggressively recruit women into its ranks; it promotes democracy and religious pluralism.
The prime minister hopes that in December he will be rewarded for these efforts by a longed-for prize: a firm date for the start of negotiations be they ever so long on Turkey's membership of the Union.But if the EU hoped that by ushering Cyprus into its ranks, it would encourage moderation among the island's Greek majority, it has been disappointed.
Because the rank product statistic transforms expression intensity into ranks, it has several advantages, including fewer assumptions and easy handling of noisy data or few micro-arrays.
To measure the significance of differential expression, we chose the RankProd algorithm because, transforming the actual expression values into ranks, it offers a way to overcome the heterogeneity among multiple datasets and therefore to extract and integrate information from them [ 23].
Apple may be testing changes to its iTunes App Store ranking algorithms, which see it taking into account app ratings and other new factors in the App Store Top Chart rankings.
