This down-to-earth book provides practical advice, underpinned by theoretical principles, on developing and evaluating measurement instruments in all fields of medicine. It equips you to choose the ...

Male gardener, brown hair, red t-shirt: Well, gardening involves measuring the length of lots of things. In this instance I'm measuring out a path that's 4 m long, and when I can find it ...

We started by scanning existing social value metrics, such as the ones described in the table “10 Ways to Measure Social Value” on page 41. We found hundreds of competing tools, of which foundations ...

Improving quality leads to trickier searches and ongoing challenges. Google uses multiple methods to measure search quality, including human evaluators and behavioral analysis. Users tend to make ...

Measuring Development is the Development Impact (DIME) department’s flagship annual conference organized in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley and the World ...

Handheld Analyzers Usher in a New Era in Field Testing ...

Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are mechanical systems designed to move a measuring probe to determine coordinates of points on a workpiece surface. They provide precise measurements of objects ...

Investopedia / Jiaqi Zhou Jensen's measure is a risk-adjusted performance measure that represents the average return on an investment above or below that predicted by the capital asset pricing ...

Parker, Megan J. 2023. Book Review: Measuring compliance – Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct. Edited by Melissa Rorie and Benjamin Van Rooij. Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 79, Issue. 3, p.

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

Productivity is a measure of performance that compares the output of a product with the input, or resources, required to produce it. The input may be labor, equipment, or money. The U.S ...

Once the scale of the map is known, it is possible to measure the distance between two points. The easiest way to do this is to measure the straight-line distance using a ruler, then convert it ...