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In 1968, in the Metric Study Act (Pub. L. 90-472, August 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 693), Congress authorized a three-year study of systems of measurement in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the feasibility of adopting the SI.
The use of ACSOI came under scrutiny in August 2011, when it was revealed the company Groupon used the metric to present a net gain in operating income in their IPO filing.
APP was itself replaced in November 2007 when the BIS amended 15 CFR to include the December 2006 Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Agreement Implementation's new metric - Gigaflops (GFLOPS), one billion floating point operations per second, or TeraFLOPS, one trillion floating point operations per second.
Later, by slightly modifying the Van den Broeck metric, Serguei Krasnikov reduced the necessary total amount of negative mass to a few milligrams.
Distance between statistical distributions had been addressed in 1936 by Bhattacharyya's mentor, Mahalanobis, who proposed the D2 metric, now known as Mahalanobis distance.
Note that neither of these statements implies the other, since there are complete metric spaces which are not locally compact (the irrational numbers with the metric defined below; also, any Banach space of infinite dimension), and there are locally compact Hausdorff spaces which are not metrizable (for instance, any uncountable product of non-trivial compact Hausdorff spaces is such; also, several function spaces used in Functional Analysis; the uncountable Fort space).
Officials said the route would cut short 63 km compared to the Darshana-Gethe track to Dhaka and facilitate smooth traffic of 7 lakh metric tonnes of expected import-export items in a year.
The main differences between the BMW Dixi 3/15 DA-1 and the contemporary Austin Seven were the addition of Bosch shock absorbers, the placement of the driver's controls on the left side of the vehicle, and the use of metric fasteners.
Calabi transformed the Calabi conjecture into a non–linear partial differential equation of complex Monge–Ampere type, and showed that this equation has at most one solution, thus establishing the uniqueness of the required Kähler metric.
Having toured 9 countries, released 4 full length recordings and several EP’s – and graced the stage with artists such as Smashmouth, Metric, Sugarcult, Mark Olson, Shawn Mullins, The Weepies, Mike McCready and many more, she has gained an avid and adoring fan base with her high energy and intensely personal show.
More recent work by Vahe Gurzadyan has suggested that the fundamental 8 year cycle of Venus is a better metric.
This section opened in 1992 and built (like all of its sections) to Interstate Highway standards (containing no traffic signals, crossroads, or businesses), was the first highway on the East Coast to be marked with metric measurements.
There is another dumping ground in Mulund in the north-eastern part of the city, where about 2,000 metric tonnes of garbage are dumped daily.
Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb - 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005.
Energy drift is often used as a measure of the quality of the simulation, and has been proposed as one quality metric to be routinely reported in a mass repository of molecular dynamics trajectory data analogous to the Protein Data Bank.
Equivalent Average (EqA) is a baseball metric invented by Clay Davenport and intended to express the production of hitters in a context independent of park and league effects.
Shape theory: Many shape invariants (Borsuk groups, Quigley inward and approaching groups) of a compact metric space can be obtained as exterior homotopy groups of the exterior space determined by the open neighborhoods of a compact metric space embedded in the Hilbert cube.
In 2012, Drax Biomass announced plans to construct a 450,000 metric ton per year wood pellet production facility in Gloster.
The new scalar field comes from a component of the metric tensor where the figure 5 labels an additional, fifth dimension.
New Zealand racing differs from North American racing in that metric distances are used, generally above the equivalent of one mile and horses are classed by how many wins they have.
The metric system of measure was first given a legal basis in 1795 by the French Revolutionary government.
The Veerashaiva writer Chamarasa (author of Prabhulingalile, 1425) and his Vaishnava competitor Kumaravyasa (Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari, 1450) popularised the shatpadi metric tradition initiated by Hoysala poet Raghavanka, in the court of Vijayanagara King Deva Raya II.
Standing on a lotus-shaped base, it is 6.2 meters tall and weighs 5 metric tons
Dragonetti collaborated with mixer John O'Mahony (Metric, Cold Play) on the latest Submarines album.
The facility at Naduvannur provides a production of 7.5 TPD (2693 TPA, 2009–2010), to sum up the total production to about 10,000 metric tonnes during the year 2009-2010.
The Laws retain the Imperial units as they were originally specified, but now also include metric conversions.
Similarity learning, for other approaches to learn a distance metric from examples.
Equilateral dimension of a metric space (also called the metric dimension), the maximum number of points at equal distances from each other
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Hausdorff dimension, an extended non-negative real number associated with any metric space that generalizes the notion of the dimension of a real vector space
In television, the Simpsons episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain" has Principal Skinner saying that, thanks to the city being under Mensa's control, the city's trains are not only running on time, but they are running on metric time, while looking at an analog clock with numbers 1–10 (which indicates decimal time).
Metric Today is the bi-monthly newsletter of the U.S. Metric Association.
In the film Pulp Fiction it is true that because of the metric system in France, this sandwich was called Royale with cheese.
He has worked with Canadian musical artists such as K-os, Metric, Buck 65, and The Dears.
For , the Minkowski distance is a metric as a result of the Minkowski inequality.
Sync with third party bio-metric sensors (Zephyr HxM, Polar WearLink, and Ant+ compatible heart rate and speed distance monitors)
Number needed to vaccinate, a metric used in the evaluation of vaccines and in the determination of vaccination policy, commonly abbreviated "NNV"
Traffic was commanded to drive on the right by painting arrows on the road indicating the direction of traffic and changing the location of street and traffic signs to Spanish and metric system.
In 1999, Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld arranged the transport of a red stone boulder, weighing about 35 metric tons, from Venezuela's Canaima National Park to Berlin Tiergarten for his "global stone" project.
An algorithm is constructed to produce and output note values based on the transition matrix weightings, which could be MIDI note values, frequency (Hz), or any other desirable metric.
Three committee members claim that clearances granted in past should have been limited to the scope of the initial environment impact analysis of 2005 for 4 Million Metric Tonne (MMT) plant.
de Sitter precession a general relativistic correction accounting for the Schwarzschild metric of curved space near a large non-rotating mass.
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP, which was set up by Hong Kong government) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) started to develop a SIP verification and quality measures framework in 2005, based on QIP metric.
At the September United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, AusAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dfid and USAID adopted the 100 million metric as a cornerstone of their International Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health.
The soundtrack of the game was released in 2010 and contains 55 songs by Charm City Devils, Green Day, Kiss, Matt & Kim, Metric, Motion City Soundtrack, NOFX, Tokyo Police Club, The Broken West, Weezer, Wolfmother and many others.
Source lines of code, a software metric used to measure the size of a software program
where R is the real line, is a (positive definite) metric and is a positive function on the Riemannian manifold S.
which, after multiplication by just tells us that the Einstein tensor of the metric defined by the tetrads vanishes.
in Comparative Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, Arndt was well known for his metric translations, which included versions of Goethe's Faust, Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, a number of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as works by Busch, Morgenstern, and others.
Throughout her career, she collaborated with several artists, including Andrea Bocelli, Samuele Bersani, Club Dogo, Kate Bush, Metric, Christopher Cross, Mango and others.