We are beginning to see a resurgence of an informed citizenry in America: casualties are being counted and grieved for; media are again expected to investigate and report independently, not cheerlead; administration claims of success in Iraq are scrutinized, measured against reality and rejected.
The research firm gives points to all companies it scrutinizes, measuring the value of patents filed by the number of objections from competing companies, for example.
Fed officials closely scrutinize two measures of popular expectations.
For this reason, a rather large research base has accumulated regarding how to scrutinize psychological measures for item bias.
Using data from the larger study, his team will scrutinize other measures of adversity, such as the stress hormone cortisol, and epigenetic changes in which environmental factors affect the way genes are activated.
The message is unmistakable: Scrutinize, critique, measure, evaluate and maintain constant surveillance over your body, and start this at the tender age of -- what, 5 or 6? Yikes.
Just as casinos analyze the reactions of the players through their facial expressions, nonverbal cues and speech, mobile devices also scrutinize and measure the satisfaction of the player during the term of the game.
His success on and off the field has been analyzed, scrutinized and measured on so many levels so many times since he announced he was leaving MLS almost two week ago.
The latter term will be used throughout this contribution to indicate that the scrutinized AD measure actually estimates conditional class probabilities.
The implication was clear: The government wants to crack down on tax cheats and will use the new measure to scrutinize travelers' financial records.
