Collocations withmeasure
These are words often used in combination withmeasure.
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accurate measure
But is the amount of red light needed to cancel the greenness of a stimulus really an accurate measure of its degree of greenness?
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additional measure
The development of vaccines against filarial infections can act as an additional measure to existing therapeutic methods for the elimination of this disease.
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administrative measure
But exactly how this will be worked must be left to the courts, as an administrative measure.
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aggregate measure
These composite scores were averaged across families within each community to obtain an aggregate measure of community cohesion for each of the 46 community clusters.
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alternative measure
Both per capita wealth and this alternative measure of judicial efficiency exhibited statistically significant coefficients.
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appropriate measure
Selecting an appropriate measure of coupling strength depends critically on recognizing and describing the underlying affordance-effectivity match of the target system.
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ballot measure
Thus, we can conclude with certainty that members of each party in that party's core precincts were strongly polarized on the ballot measure.
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broad measure
There is broad measure of agreement, but it is agreement condemning the proposals.
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coercive measure
I hope that this coercive measure fails.
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composite measure
The third distinct subset consisted of the four participant dyads with the lowest scores on the composite measure of engagement.
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comprehensive measure
A comprehensive measure of proximity to singular configurations also needs to consider inverse kinematic singularities.
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concrete measure
The best thing would be for the local planning authorities to be brought into this and given some really concrete measure of control.
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confidence-building measure
But the temptation to publish was huge; it was a confidence-building measure more than anything else.
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continuous measure
Such a nuanced distinction requires a continuous measure that returns very finely graded values.
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controversial measure
Nielsen's empirical claims are less than certain even with respect to mere mutual advantage, the less egalitarian and less controversial measure of global justice.
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corrective measure
Rather, it serves as its corrective measure.
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cost-cutting measure
It was a cost-cutting measure that was dressed up, with warm words, as community care.
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cost-effective measure
Where possible, as a cost-effective measure, pilot or demonstration projects should precede these interventions.
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cost-saving measure
Presumably this approach is a cost-saving measure of the publishers.
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crude measure
However, the size of the government's agenda, at least by our crude measure, is unaffected by changes in these two institutional features.
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defensive measure
Children and young people were also the most susceptible to new patterns of thought and behaviour, therefore instilling values acted as a defensive measure for counteracting undesirable social trends.
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desperate measure
Since we take this last alternative to be a desperate measure, we won't discuss it in this paper.
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dichotomous measure
A dichotomous measure indicating positive versus negative self-report of hallucinations was created.
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direct measure
In contrast to cultural civilization, religious denomination is a more direct measure of religious forces that influence the attitudes and values of the individual.
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disciplinary measure
Simultaneous with the abandonment of the market place by the spiritual authorities was a relinquishment of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure.
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draconian measure
I am sure that it is a draconian measure.
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drastic measure
It was a drastic measure taken in desperate circumstances.
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equal measure
He appears to have been gifted and witty, self-absorbed and impossible in equal measure.
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extraordinary measure
That seems to me the most extraordinary measure that anyone could conceive.
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extreme measure
It is, therefore, a less extreme measure than a compulsory purchase order.
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follow-up measure
All follow-up measures were obtained through maternal report.
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harsh measure
This would seem rather a harsh measure to take.
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heroic measure
We are dealing with a limited and not very heroic measure.
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indirect measure
Although energy use is not a direct pollution measure, it is an important indirect measure of a society's environmental focus and performance.
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interim measure
As an interim measure, some of these rather ramshackle houses and factories were leased to short-term tenants such as rock studios and ethnic restaurants.
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legislative measure
The thematic content of each legislative measure was assessed.
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measure of inequality
This provides a measure of inequality between income groups.
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numerical measure
Phrase matching compares the dependency structures of the query and the caption, resulting in a numerical measure of similarity.
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objective measure
Even though there is no objective measure of these two factors, we cannot leave them out because they are directly related to the explanation size.
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observational measure
In conclusion, no single observational measure is broadly recommended for pain assessment across all contexts.
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physiological measure
The first and simplest approach uses the physiological measure as a dependent variable or outcome measure.
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precautionary measure
We do not sterilize surgical instruments as a precautionary measure, as we know that an infection is rather probable if we use unclean instruments.
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precise measure
The lack of a precise measure of the appropriate deforestation process is a serious limitation of previous studies on the topic.
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preventative measure
This is strictly a preventative measure.
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preventive measure
In addition, there are several problems associated with the use of individual prosecution as a preventive measure.
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proactive measure
That is a more positive, proactive measure and it saves money and, more importantly, communities.
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proposed measure
The strength of support for, or opposition to, a proposed measure can be gauged and, if necessary, the policy redesigned before actual implementation.
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protectionist measure
Not content with endorsing such nonsense, this text makes the fight against any protectionist measure the central piece of its argument.
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protective measure
Between 1965 and 1972, when small local improvement schemes were under consideration for this road, development alongside the road was controlled as a protective measure.
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provisional measure
First let me say that although this is only a provisional measure, it must have a lasting effect.
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punitive measure
It would be wrong to see the re-testing procedure simply as a humiliation or as a punitive measure.
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qualitative measure
The qualitative measure identifies its distinct types by ascertaining the formal and/or informal characteristics of those groups.
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quantitative measure
By estimating games, we have also derived a quantitative measure for the effectiveness and stability of an organization for forest management.
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reasonable measure
Using an axiomatic approach to entropy we prove that there is basically only one reasonable measure-theoretic entropy notion on doubly stochastic operators.
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regulatory measure
It is a regulatory measure, but one welcomed by financial and public interests.
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reliable measure
Thus, experimental effects on a highly sensitive and reliable measure may be obscured by averaging with less precise measures.
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remedial measure
However, researchers are strongly advised not to allow blocks to be spread between terraces and to utilize covariates only as a remedial measure.
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repeated measure
However, in order to evaluate the similarity of results across speakers, we will also provide statistical tests with speaker as the repeated measure.
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repressive measure
It is not right for some members of the press to say that this is a repressive measure.
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restrictive measure
I therefore urge you to oppose any such restrictive measure.
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retaliatory measure
There is no evidence that it is in any way a retaliatory measure.
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safety measure
Working at a steady pace was the biggest safety measure achieved on site, and it appeared effective.
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sanitary measures
The implementation of sanitary measures revealed a conflict between the interests of commerce and those of public health.
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screening measure
Using a criterion standard to validate a screening measure to identify harmful and hazardous drinking in older persons.
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self-report measure
Evaluation of a modified self-report measure of social adjustment.
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sensible measure
This is a sensible measure; yet this relatively straightforward technical measure has already taken 18 months to get to this point of second reading.
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standardized measure
While there is no standardized measure for effectiveness, more can be done to ensure uniformity and improve clarity.
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strict measure
I find it difficult to see how he proposes to adjust the balance between council development and private development without a strict measure of control.
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stringent measure
A more stringent measure of this notion is the degree of overlap between the transcribed error and the stimulus in terms of letters correct in absolute serial position.
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temporary measure
But it is a temporary measure, with contents that need bolder linkage.
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unilateral measure
However, one cannot support unilateral measures to achieve this end.
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unpopular measure
Those things can be done; but they can be done only if there is the courage to take e very unpopular measure.
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valid measure
These showed no differences and so it was concluded that the easier batch method gave a valid measure of the coefficient.
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voluntary measure
In addition to foreign trade incentives and constraints over compliance, a net voluntary measure could be improved by including the effect of withholding.
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