Word: indexation
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...ranks above-.500 teams based on their performance against common opponents, against one another, and against other above-average schools, as well as the results of their last 16 games and each team’s Rating Percentage Index...
...capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, exercise patterns and drug compliance...
...says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), are the hottest investment of the moment. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland Chinese firms are called, spiked 152% in 2003. After three years of indifference to stocks during a bad bear market, many ordinary Hong Kongers are now giddy over just about any new offering with the word China attached...
Copper is trading above $1 a pound for the first time in more than six years. Gold broke $420 an ounce. Nickel is at a 14-year high. The Reuters/CRB commodity index rose 9% in 2003, to its highest level since 1996. Do soaring prices for raw materials mean inflation for finished goods, as in the '70s and '80s? "Almost certainly not," Ben Bernanke, a Federal Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with...
...added that his findings on dietary magnesium intake were independent of BMI and thus would not have changed with a different BMI index. He defended his study as possibly more accurate than the WHS study because of the larger pool of participants in the NHS group...