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It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.
In our mind, the relevant metric is: student-to-valuable-human-time- with-the-teacher ratio.
It's an internal metric; there's an internal metric about us, saying, do we understand the world, am I making predictions, and so on.
He's about four or five times as fast with this simple little performance metric.
The first metric is: Is it sustainable?
Now, combating that challenge we have to also meet the big three metric — Actually, extreme green for us is all three together; that's why you see the plus there.
That's another metric.
Carbon-dioxide emission, metric ton per capita.
So by this particular metric, nuclear power isn't as intrusive as renewables.
But what I plotted here is just some metric that shows how fast we're searching.
Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric.
So let's look at the first metric here, overwintering survival.
Progress on this goal isn't going to be measured with the metric of money.
Now, in order for us to examine the overall impact of a health condition both on life expectancy as well as on the quality of life lived, we need to use a metric called the DALY, which stands for a Disability-Adjusted Life Year.
My own country, Uganda, has a quota to export 50,000 metric tons of sugar to the European Union market.
We import 50,000 metric tons of sugar from Brazil and Cuba.
It's working its way slowly across the U.S. and wiping out populations of bats, and scientists have estimated that 1,300 metric tons of insects a year are now remaining in the ecosystems due to the loss of bats.
Well, it's simple in the sense that it has fewer neurons, but is that a fair metric?
And I would propose it's not a fair metric.
If you look at disability, as measured by the World Health Organization with something they call the Disability Adjusted Life Years, it's kind of a metric that nobody would think of except an economist, except it's one way of trying to capture what is lost in terms of disability from medical causes, and as you can see, virtually 30 percent of all disability from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders, neuropsychiatric syndromes.
With a repairability scorecard, with a repairability metric and eventually repairability incentive.
Now these initiatives create a more mobile workplace, and they reduce our real estate footprint, and they yield savings of 23 million dollars in operating costs annually, and avoid the emissions of a 100,000 metric tons of carbon.
This means that if we take that fishery catch that's on the decline and we could turn it upwards, we could increase it up to 100 million metric tons per year.
And there are a lot of measures that we use for our success, but the main thing that we're interested in is making sure that we're changing the sense of confidence, that "don't ask, don't tell" metric among clinicians.
If we take all the Amazon, which is a very large area, and add it up to all that water that is released by transpiration, which is the sweat of the forest, we'll get to an incredible number: 20 billion metric tons of water.
The Amazon River, the largest river on Earth, one fifth of all the fresh water that leaves the continents of the whole world and ends up in the oceans, dumps 17 billion metric tons of water a day in the Atlantic Ocean.
If we could take a gigantic kettle, the kind you could plug into a power socket, an electric one, and put those 20 billion metric tons of water in it, how much power would you need to have this water evaporated?
He was teaching himself to communicate, but we were looking in the wrong place, and this is what happens when assessments and analytics overvalue one metric — in this case, verbal communication — and undervalue others, such as creative problem-solving.
The War on Drugs has simply failed across every metric.
There is no metric on earth that will give us the answer.
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