The phrase "absolute gains" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing economic or performance improvements, particularly in relation to overall increases rather than relative comparisons.
Example: "The company's focus on absolute gains has led to significant improvements in productivity and profitability over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "total improvements" or "overall gains".
"When a nation is as rich as ours," Scott Winship points out in an essay for Breakthrough Journal, "it can realize larger absolute gains than it did in the past... even if it has lower growth rates".
But an authoritative study published last year by the Centre for Global Development, an independent think-tank in Washington, DC, found that privatisation in Latin America had been unfairly criticised and that although some firms had raised prices "the bottom line is still one of absolute gains for the poor".The Brazilian case for reformThose gains are especially clear in Brazil.
The theory tells us that people think and react to relative gains rather than absolute gains.
Indexed options balance a company's relative stock market performance against its absolute gains.
The antennas at the nodes and the BS are modeled as having absolute gains of 6 and 20 dBi, respectively.
States merely calculate that their reputation as a weak negotiator will erode future bargaining power and subsequently their future share of absolute gains.
Absolute learning gains were calculated as (posttest score − pretest score), both as absolute gain and percentage gain.
The inequality associated with relative advantage is so appealing that it overrides both a desire for fairness and a desire for absolute gain.
Thanks to these improvements, the audio-only cough detection algorithm outperforms a commercial system using 4 sensors, with an absolute gain of 26% in terms of sensitivity, while preserving the same specificity performance.
The requirements on the absolute gain and phase shift values can be relaxed.
Let us note that the absolute gain increases with the master window size and several hours are saved.
