DURBAN / GENEVA, 11 June 2003 – The Executive Director of UNICEF today called on African leaders attending an economic summit here to embrace child-centred standards as the primary measure for gauging progress across their continent.
(Press release) Bellamy to Africa leaders: Use child well-being as measure of progress Wednesday, 11 June 2003 – The Executive Director of UNICEF today called on African leaders attending an economic summit here to embrace child-centred standards as the primary measure for gauging progress across their continent.
Medicinal chemist Lester Mitscher and his colleagues at the University of Kansas, Lawrence decided to test a number of possible antioxidant compounds in green tea, red wine, and vitamins C and E for their ability to prevent bacterial cells from mutating, a standard test for gauging a compound's anticancer capabilities.
At most reentry programs, there is no standard metric for gauging success.
Compared with standards set in Europe and by other federal agencies, the F.A.A.'s measure for gauging how loud is too loud is unusually lenient.
Farther up the coast into New Jersey, "the great Atlantic gale of March 1962 remains the standard for gauging storm peril for the Jersey Shore," wrote the Daily Journal.
The E.P.A., in testing for things like asbestos or other particles in the air, used a 24-hour-averaging system, which was considered the scientific standard for gauging exposures.
This assumes that an individual's responsibility is simply to do a "good job". In hierarchical organizations, the standard for gauging an individual's performance is typically whether an employee has met specific objectives.
Therefore, a new matching technique is needed for gauging standard errors of propensity scores.
The purpose of the present study was to extend caliper matching to a new matching technique, interval matching, by using unit-specific bootstrap confidence intervals (CIs) [ 5] for gauging the standard error of the estimated propensity score for each unit.
The same analysis was repeated using (TarBase+LCL) as gold standard to gauge the effect of the choice of gold standard; the results for the three prediction approaches are shown in Figure S1.
