A few key indicators appear to support this.

But cultural differences between countries undermine the legitimacy of such rankings which are, after all, based on surveys of the public.

One measurement they use is so called mutual intelligibility .

And this speaks to the role of angiogenesis in regulating healthy set points.

A small search engine called RankDex from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site scoring and page ranking.

Moreover, many public services are so called soft services. Hospital care entails much more than a well functioning conveyor belt for surgical operations.

(a) Primary consideration shall be given to the fulfilment of the requirements and criteria of article 5 of the present Protocol

None of these will necessarily be a measure of future success.

First, the use of EU institutional criteria must not be confused with the goal of EU accession.

The notion of a single set of criteria to evaluate the governance of publicly traded firms worldwide is undoubtedly appealing.

They will make loans on the basis of commercial criteria rather than relations with big state owned companies.

According to experts, there should be two criteria firstly reduction in transfer time, secondly convenience.

But the state has other means to encourage equality on the basis of national, social, or economic criteria.

If approved, based on technical and other substantive criteria, apps can be included in the package. Olivier Ntanama is a blogger from Bukavu, where he studies in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The paradigm of international security that had long dominated Japan's defense thinking had shifted and policymakers realized that they had to shift with it. For Japan nowadays, security policy must satisfy a trinity of criteria national interests, alliance, and international cooperation.

Unambiguous, impartial criteria for selecting a winner were not at hand and never will be.

For Japan nowadays, security policy must satisfy a trinity of criteria national interests, alliance, and international cooperation.

One way forward would be to establish numerical guidelines along the lines of the Maastricht Treaty for conferring G 7 membership.

Later writers came to recognize that there are other essential criteria for a successful currency union, which are difficult to achieve without deep political integration.

Even the report s authors confess that the subject is quite heterogeneous, making it difficult to determine unambiguous criteria for identifying offending material.

Establish ground rules and deal breakers and stick to the criteria that we set for ourselves.

The Sichuan document lists recruitment criteria for the ziganwu and the core Internet commenters composed of both teachers and students from the colleges.

There are as yet no Copenhagen criteria to guide constitution makers here.

The problem is that the current context provides no yardstick for assessing when a national policy stops being cooperative.

1. Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2001 2003 shall be based on the following elements and criteria

5. Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2007 2009 shall be based on the following elements and criteria

(g) Further develop and implement criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management that are consistent with national priorities and conditions

And I have a carefully drawn up a list of criteria that political representation must meet in order to gain my support.

There is no absolute yardstick on how to behave in these impossible circumstances, so people must judge every election on its merits.

The creation of that body was an important step, because it introduced a set of criteria that must be fulfilled by countries that want to call themselves democratic.

Even in France, where universal republican principles theoretically contradict such policies, public action is being 'ethnicized' under the mask of geographical or social criteria.

In any case, the Stability Pact's death means that a new fiscal framework is needed. This means that new convergence criteria are needed too.

All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.

Back then, Greece conspicuously failed to meet a plethora of basic convergence criteria, owing to its massive debt and its relative economic and political backwardness.

45. Welcomes the adoption of criteria and guidelines on the transfer of marine technology by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission See IOC XXII 2 Annex 12 rev.

Even though there is a transport hub development program in the city, no qualitative criteria are designated, states Alexander Morozov, co chairman of the public organization City and Transport .

Meanwhile, the administration of President Yanukovych proclaims its willingness to join the EU, but has failed to introduce the changes needed to meet the qualifying criteria.

For the inflation and interest rate criteria, one possibility is to require the same margins as now, but over the average for the entire eurozone.

The development of these criteria and procedures are in accordance with the principles contained in E.190 and the numbering plan formats detailed in E.164.

But, when examined against the right criteria, cases that initially look alike are often very different.

No matter what criterion one uses, Japan's economy remains the most closed among OECD countries and one of the most closed in the world.

(c) The use of objective and predetermined criteria for public procurement decisions, in order to facilitate the subsequent verification of the correct application of the rules or procedures

The research paper produced by the group tellingly concedes there is a lack of hard evidence for the harms of most products on most of the criteria, McKee and Capewell wrote.

There were no unanimous responses but rather an exchange of diverse opinions, and once again a debate about the informative rigor and definition of citizen journalism Among the supporters

All of this highlights the need for new benchmarks for performance and compensation that factor in vulnerability to periodic systemic risk, with special attention to debt and liquidity.