The phrase "a negative standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a benchmark or criterion that is unfavorable or detrimental in nature.
Example: "The company has set a negative standard for employee performance, leading to low morale among the staff."
Alternatives: "an unfavorable benchmark" or "a detrimental criterion".
The same supervisor, Yu, describes the aesthetic criteria for hiring front-of-the-house workers as distance from a negative standard, represented by migrant workers: [They must have] the right look.
This curation can also be used to obtain a negative standard which addresses some issues with currently used methods.
All the 41 patients with a positive PAMG-1 immunoassay result but a negative standard diagnostic methods were subsequently confirmed having ROM based on absence of membrane and/or positive pad charting in the ward.
Entertainment industry awards shows are always self-referential, but this one may have set a new negative standard.
The sulfide/disulfide redox couple has a more negative standard electrode potential in solution than the Fe (II/III) couple (-0.43 V and +0.771 V, respectively [60]), thermodynamically allowing the electron flow from sulfide to Fe(III).
We suggest an alternative negative standard based on the biological process Gene Ontology that can provide representative negative examples (see "Suggestions for representative functional evaluation of data and methods").
b Negative standard means a decrease in glucose flux to 2,3-butanediol, lactic acid, and ethanol.
Decrease in entropy, as expected for a biosorption system, is evident by observing negative standard enthalpy change values as given in the table.
But some adhere to a negative reporting standard, in which only missed payments are reported to bureaus.
In one of the studies, two patients had a negative reference standard.
Due to the lack of a negative gold standard, we have denoted in the previous analysis an edge as being false positive if both regulator and target are present but not connected in the reference network (the positive gold standard).
