But researchers are slowly improving their statistical measures.
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The study found major benefits of improving data attributes to measures of innovation and growth as well as operational excellence.
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The contract changes are also designed to introduce new measures for improving care for patients with long-term chronic conditions and prevent unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital.
So while ring-fencing gets much of the attention in the final Vickers Report, the measures on improving competition within the banking sector are worth close scrutiny too.
New measures aimed at improving diabetes prevention, treatment and care have been unveiled by the Scottish Executive.
Distributing more condoms would not, on its own, stop the spread of AIDS. Lots of measures are needed: improving education, encouraging monogamy, delaying the age of first sexual encounter, helping young women to win a greater say over their sex lives and widening access to antiretroviral drugs that lessen sufferers' infectiousness.
One of the key goals of the trail upgrade is to create safe options for active transportation by improving lighting, traffic controls and other measures that have been shown to increase pedestrian safety and reduce injuries and deaths.
But, for the time being at least, there seems to be a realisation that, in spite of the progress made in improving schools over recent years, drastic measures are still needed to root out the significant pockets of under-achievement that remain.
If only as much effort went into improving performance as it did into fixing performance measures.
Money has been returning to the stock market and recent measures of consumer sentiment have been improving dramatically.
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The scheme includes a number of measures to protect the environment by improving wildlife habitats, tree cover and watercourses, the county council said.
The justice minister, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, insists that such measures offer the best hope of improving the sour relationship between Muslims and native Dutch folk.
The President is focused, as he talked about in New Orleans, on doing what he can, through his Department of Justice, to take common- sense measures that will enhance our security by improving background checks and making it harder for those who should not have weapons under existing law from obtaining them, and working more broadly to address the issue of violence in America.
Productivity will be improved by measures addressing competition, investment, entrepreneurship and improving the skills of the British people.
The rich world should concentrate, he argues, not on throwing aid at Africa, whether in budget support or projects, but on taking measures to encourage growth, above all through improving trade.
The report jarred the market from its tenuous balance between gradually improving economic data and the Federal Reserve's continued stimulus measures, which have been seen as providing a boost to stocks.
Officials said those taking part in a recent trial in Essex, in which other measures aimed at boosting people's confidence and improving their employability were also modelled, were 15-20% more likely to be off benefits 13 weeks after signing on.
Schools nationwide are lengthening school hours, piling homework on burdened kids and cramming technology into classrooms with the goal of improving test scores as politicians intensify the debate with educators demanding measures be taken to close the knowledge gap between the United States, Asia and Europe.
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Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and other officials have credited measures such as street lanes for bicycles and buses with improving the flow of traffic.
The government has announced measures to deal with violence against nurses, such as improving security at hospitals, and has set up a taskforce to prepare an action plan to reduce attacks against social workers.
To curtail illicit flows he suggests the government should: (i) ensure that the rule of law is applied fairly and swiftly, (ii) strengthen regulatory and legal institutions (iii) adopt policy measures to improve both public and corporate governance such as improving tax compliance and collection.
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He told lawmakers on Feb. 5 he would "shred" the bank's self-serving culture by improving ethics, and start linking employee pay with customer satisfaction and other measures.
Although, by some measures of income and education, the Hispanic average is not improving much, that average is dragged down by a steady influx of poor Mexicans.
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It said there was no evidence of this and by all other measures - satisfaction surveys and performance ratings - care seemed to be improving.
The leading doctors and the hospital system adopted measures to blunt harmful financial incentives, and they took collective responsibility for improving the sum total of patient care.
Although at that point the idea Treasuries were in a bubble saw little speculation, the perceived pessimism here probably began to surface thanks to an improving economic situation and increasing likelihood the Fed would eventually curb its enthusiasm for stimulus measures.
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It did, however, introduce other measures intended to improve the fishery's management by reducing illegal fishing, improving the collection of data and introducing a new framework for the presentation of scientific advice.
Those measures included included "enhanced oversight arrangements" by the Department of Health aimed at improving "governance, accountability and performance at the trust".
They can also use the break to consolidate privatization and other reform measures, and to focus on new strategies, from increasing the quantity of international exports to improving the quality of the domestic workforce.
Other measures discussed, such as introducing a car-scrapping subsidy, supporting workers on short time and improving car companies' access to finance, have reached no conclusion.
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