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.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

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.

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

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

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.

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

With regard to the process and methodology used by Saudi Arabia to quantify the loss resulting from damage to its terrestrial resources, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia's approach is reasonable.

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

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

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

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

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.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

To quantify the losses of shoreline resources, Saudi Arabia combines the information obtained from this method with estimates of the severity of damage and expected recovery times, based on the Panel's recommendation in the third F4 report.

With regard to the use of HEA, the Claimants state that HEA is a methodology that is widely accepted and is often used to quantify the ecological loss of services caused by oil spills and other released contaminants.

In paragraph 114 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation that it (a) quantify the financial effect of qualified audit opinions on nationally executed expenditure and (b) evaluate such qualifications against the action plans for reasonableness.

Some experts endeavoured to quantify the losses arising from inefficiencies, which in the example of textiles could amount to more than 12 per cent of total value.

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

In connection with the latter, the Committee is pleased to note that the Executive Director has endeavoured to quantify both indicators of achievement and outputs, and, as in the previous biennium, resource requirements are presented both by subprogramme and by source of funds.

According to Zhu Baoping, they should further move forward the reform, engage in community shares cooperation, quantify the assets to members, fix it to farmers and produce clear property rights.

The Panel also finds that there is insufficient evidence to quantify damage to mangroves and coral reefs, if any, that can be attributed directly to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

For the purposes of the present claim, the Panel considers that, while soot might have caused some short term damage, Saudi Arabia has not provided sufficient evidence to quantify such damage.

The Panel considers that the statistical approach used by Iran to quantify the impacts of pollutants from the oil well fires on its crops in 1991 is, in general, reasonable and appropriate.

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.

In paragraph 117, the Board of Auditors reiterated its recommendation that UNFPA quantify the financial effect of audit qualifications made in respect of nationally executed expenditure and continue to evaluate such qualifications against action plans for reasonableness.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

In paragraph 117 of its report, the Board reiterated its recommendation that UNFPA quantify the financial effect of audit qualifications made in respect of nationally executed expenditure and continue to evaluate such qualifications against action plans for reasonableness.

In a study relevant to this issue, NIST has been studying isotropic measurements for NASA to identify and quantify the presence of tropospheric methane (CH4), which is second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in its effects on global warming.

In this report, country based, demand driven approaches, rooted in national priorities, are advocated to quantify funding requirements, since such an approach is closely linked to the comparative advantage and unique characteristics of the operational work of the United Nations system.

Issues to be addressed relating to this option include how to quantify the risk factors of climate change and take them into account in decision making how to consider, in addition to property losses, the more important issue of human losses in developing and developed countries and how to promote strategic partnerships with professional organizations in this field.

These differences distort decisions about investment allocation and financing. Reforms that made the tax system simpler, fairer, and less distortionary would have a beneficial effect on economic growth, although economists concede that the size of this effect is uncertain and impossible to quantify.

In the implementation of Goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals, which addresses the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, a specific set of measurements and indicators should be applied to quantify progress.

It is difficult to quantify additional, and not negligible, system wide savings emanating from avoidance of future investments in acquisition and or maintenance of new systems by those organizations that might decide to in source their payroll processing to one of the leading organizations .

No information on gender allocations through country office programmes is centrally available and while it is relatively easy to identify and quantify expenditures on programmes specifically targeted to women' or gender', UNDP methodologies preclude estimating the expenditures on programmes that include attention to gender mainstreaming.

Europe s image and soft power have undoubtedly continued to fade around the world (thought such a trend is difficult to quantify), while member states continue to cut defense and development budgets. The good news, however, is that European foreign policy has not unraveled in the crisis.

Training Courses Conducted in the Countries Visited Although difficult to quantify, the effectiveness of import licensing and prevention of illegal imports of ODS is highly dependent on the ability of customs officers to apply the legal regulations in force and to identify illegal shipments of refrigerants.

However, owing to the extent of the destruction carried out by Iraq and the lack of records relating to those activities, it was not possible to quantify fully all aspects of Iraq's account of its unilateral destruction, including quantities of bulk agents and numbers of munitions.

But I was also interested in the movement of trees and how this art might let me capture that and quantify it, so to measure the distance that a single vine maple tree which produced this painting moved in a single year, I simply measured and summed each of those lines.

16 For the only empirical effort to quantify the scale of informal remittances, some of them going to Africa, see Mohammed El Qorchi, Samuel Maimbo and John Wilson, Informal funds transfer system an analysis of the informal Hawala system , Occasional Paper No. 222 (Washington, D.C., International Monetary Fund, October 2003).

It is the Chinese who have endowed the term financial center with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail. As a result, politicians are prepared to pick a city and order it to create the functions of a financial center, as if such a thing can be constructed like a building a concept that could not be more off the mark.

In paragraph 98 of the report, UNOPS agreed with the Board's recommendation that it take immediate action to (a) perform reconciliations for all imprest, inter office voucher and inter fund accounts, (b) investigate and resolve all reconciling items, (c) quantify the reconciling items and projections, (d) process the resulting adjustments and (e) implement measures to prevent the occurrence of similar failures of controls, including the adequate training of staff.