Its days sales outstanding (a measure of its time to collect revenue) has increased 20% over the past two years, suggesting Cisco is competing with more generous payment terms.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
The job was done a week ahead of time, in good measure so the exhausted legislators could be reunited with their families for a long Easter recess.
The NAHT's leadership criticises Ofsted inspections for what it believes is over-reliance on data, such as the Sats tests and data known as "contextural value added" - a measure of progress pupils make throughout their time in school.
Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.
As well as cutting the number of time-wasting appeals, such a measure would have allowed the government to seek the swift defeat of the welter of temporary injunctions by local courts that often greet any new tax or privatisation, on the ground of unconstitutionality.
As this result came with the benefit of hindsight, the researchers tried to come up with a real-time measure that could potentially provide an early warning sign of an outbreak as it began to spread.
Police and stewards moved in to try to stem the violence - witnessed by millions on TV - but it took some time to restore a measure of control.
Of course, any test is really just a measure of a particular biomarker at that moment in time.
We were, by almost any measure of space or time, a group others would kill to become--affluent Americans in 2007.
Waiting for the job recovery might be a good time to take a broader measure of the material well-being of Americans.
In physics, how you measure time and distance is a matter of your frame of reference, which can be viewed as a language or labeling convention.
Obama's budget is already weeks overdue and Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected questions about it Monday, other than to promise that it would "for a period of time" bring deficits below 3 percent of gross domestic product, a measure that many analysts say is sustainable without damaging the economy.
The Centigraphe can measure time mechanically in hundredths of a second.
Medieval monks noted that using a similar gearing system driven by a descending weight might be used to measure out an hour of time mechanically.
Rather than dismiss my proposal, Al gave me the full measure of his time and insight even though a new generation of ground-based full-motion simulators based upon advanced digital computer technology was emerging, which FlightSafety would later incorporate.
Its variability is a measure of the number of females in a population at a given time.
The study was designed to measure progression-free survival, which is a measurement of the time from the start of treatment until the disease gets worse or the patient dies, and overall survival, which is a measurement of time from the start of treatment until death.
As noted above, the ability to measure, in real time, sources of carbon goes a long way in helping us stop the emissions.
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It would be both shortsighted and unwise for the Republican majority in the House to attempt to repeal this measure at the very time the people of America need a sense of security and stability.
Finally, much like the risk equation information security professionals use when deciding what defensive measures to put in place, in essence figuring out if the benefit of a protective measure exceeds its cost (in money, resource time, etc.), attackers are at least subconsciously using a similar mechanism.
And if you help someone make money, a measure of respect arises during the interaction and they will back you the next time.
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Crocodile-tagging safaris, where researchers measure and label the crocs as part of a monitoring program, are night-time affairs, taken after a candlelit three-course meal of delicious reef fish washed down with chilled Chilean sauvignon blanc.
League tables should be scrapped, they say, and there should be a system of "sampling" to enable the government to measure how pupils are achieving over time.
They have a wealth of knowledge in how buyers measure success, how value is defined and changes of time, how well the product achieves target outcomes, and customer relationship and engagement expectations.
Core inflation, which is a better measure of the underlying inflation trend than overall inflation, seems likely to moderate gradually over time.
Two interesting wrinkles to the latest version of these tests: banks get a one-time do over if the Fed rejects their capital plan and a key measure of risk-weighted assets has gotten more stringent.
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In real terms, adjusted for consumer-price inflation, interest rates are already negative: for the first time since the mid-1970s. (Though using a different measure of inflation, they are still positive, just.) Although the context is very different, some commentators are already noting that the Bank of Japan has, for a prolonged period, had virtually no room for manoeuvre on monetary policy because Japanese interest rates have been negative for so long.
The governor included the measure in a package of executive budget amendments and said it wouldn't be a one-time act.
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