From each membrane, strips (1 × 3 cm) were cut out and subjected to tensile measurements (for stress, modulus, and elongation) in an Instron 5848 microtester (Instron, Wycombe Buckinghamshire, UK), equipped with a 5 N load cell and a set gauge distance of 14 mm.
"During the last two and a half years, there was no set gauge that governed bank restructuring," he said.
What Metrics Should Be Set to Gauge Success?
"He had a sense of humor that set the gauge for everyone else," said Ms. Trost, who is two years younger than her brother.
The set opener was "Good Bait," a Tadd Dameron tune, and Dr. Smith set the gauge at a medium-easy tempo, the standard gait of mid-Atlantic organ-trio protocol.
On Tuesday morning, he led a rally of several thousand people in Jalalabad, a city close to his family's compound, that seemed set to gauge public support for him in a region that is considered his stronghold.
There are hundreds of benchmarks being used in financial markets to set a gauge for the price of items ranging from interest rates to wheat to fuel oil but many of them had been known only to market participants until the Libor-rigging scandal erupted last year.
But Jobs probably felt comfortable giving that advice to Cook knowing that Apple University would help set that gauge.
Just as standards are set to gauge the environmental costs and benefits of specific initiatives, we need parallel mechanisms to measure the costs and benefits to racial and ethnic unity, to close the economic gap and to increase levels of participation.
Use your pre-set marking gauge to scribe the areas to be cut to create the pins.
