And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.

She explained that the second paper focused on three examples where attempts to quantify the impact of massive refugee populations have been carried out.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

It was difficult to quantify the indigenous population.

(i) Quantify the effects of the measures it implements

(f) Training programmes must be regularly and systematically evaluated to quantify and qualify their impact, to identify the best prevailing practices, which should then be institutionalized, and to introduce other improvements

(b) To quantify the social, economic and environmental implications of

The cost of these services would be extremely difficult to quantify.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

Only 1 of the 17 project documents contained both baseline data and targets to quantify the problem at hand and the project s expected drug control impact and added value, although another did set a measurable target.

To this end it is desirable to gather empirical data to quantify the known reliability of EO in service, in particular its likelihood of generating a significant humanitarian impact if it fails to function as designed.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

It was, however, rather difficult to quantify benefits before the programmes had been implemented.

Demand is very difficult to quantify for the marginalized and excluded segments of the population.

Over the years, various efforts had been made to quantify the elements covered by the margin.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product.

Step 3. Quantify retirement, health, life accident and other relevant non cash schemes.

However, for a number of reasons these consequences are extremely difficult to quantify.

Inadequate monitoring made it difficult to quantify the overall damage to marine life from such activities.

The evaluation report did not, however, quantify how much of these gains was attributable to the project.

Project agreements should specify and quantify the direct technical inputs to be provided by an executing agency.

Although the implementation of the security measures in SOLAS and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code is expected to have a positive impact on the reduction of piracy and armed robbery incidents, it is still too soon to quantify the effect of their implementation.

The information is used to quantify the volume of activity in criminal courts and to help identify crime types.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

Rating scales and other questionnaire techniques will be employed to enable the assessors to quantify the perceptions as far as possible.

The issue of how to quantify the resources devoted to outputs has, in one form or another, been around for many years.

It will be possible to quantify this amount only after a decision has been taken on the physical location of the Secretariat

Step 2. Identify and quantify all cash and non cash remuneration elements paid by the minimal number of potential best comparators.

Recommendation to specify and quantify the direct technical inputs is being implemented in UNDP funded projects through technical support services contracts.

There is clearly considerable tension on this issue and it is too early to quantify the progress that is being made.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

1. Takes note of the fact that the impact of an increase in the membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the secretariat services required to properly facilitate the work of the Commission would not be material enough to quantify and that the increase would therefore have no financial implications

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

The reason I quantify that is because we really embarked on this as a mutual journey to really get inside of it.

The Parties to the Convention which have greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments must quantify, report, reduce and mitigate their national emissions of greenhouse gases.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

Mr. Sach (Controller), responding to members' comments, said that it had not been traditional practice to quantify individual outputs in the budget proposal.

201. Some members considered that the current language incentive scheme was not rational, that it was indirect, difficult to quantify and not transparent.

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

Data on opium production were not consistent and it was impossible to quantify changes in illicit cultivation levels with any reliability.