Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 傾向) and absorption.

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

Under the law in Massachusetts, tobacco companies have to measure the nicotine content of every type of cigarette and report the results.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

Different measures should be taken to protect one's home from burglary in addition to the wireless security system.

After taking appropriate measures to contain the RF interference to our test lab, we tested the attack out for ourselves, and were able to verify that it's possible with the right equipment.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

Many policy measures to control obesity（肥胖癥）assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods," note the two researchers.

The other measures include restricting portion sizes, taxing and prohibiting special price deals for junk foods, and placing warning labels on the products

What do the Rand researchers think of many of the policy measures to control obesity?

Borrowing ideas from alcohol control measures

In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students'elf-esteem

Measures to create job opportunities.

Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.

Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.

What measure did the Graben Gore Restaurant take to stop stealing?

Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time"

Philadelphia's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote.

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

It helps advertisers to measure the click-through rates.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group.

"Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet," wrote Tony Schwartz in New York times.

Researchers used ACT scores as a measure of intellectual aptitude.

She's using CT scans to measure muscle size and fat, and comparing seniors on a high-protein diet with those on regular diets.

The Jones-Klenow measure can also assess an economy's performance over time.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.

To measure the effects of Internet-based distractions during class, researchers, evaluated 500 students taking an introductory psychology class at michigan State University.

While thinking about the question, we came across a recently published article by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, which proposes an interesting new measure of economic welfare.