The phrase "applied against the value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving finance, accounting, or any situation where a value is being assessed or compared.
Example: "The discount will be applied against the value of the total purchase."
Alternatives: "deducted from the value" or "offset against the value".
Data services provide a stream of closing prices, which are then applied against the fund's holdings to calculate the value of the portfolio.
The Blast2go algorithm (www.blast2go.org) was applied against the Swissprot database, and only reads with an e-value below 10−7 were considered in the analysis.
Deep doses are applied against the whole body dose limit.
Shallow doses are applied against the skin dose limit.
Inheritance tax is applied to the value of the estate, not individual bequests, as originally implied.
Liberty would probably issue debt against QVC, since the channel is practically debt-free, and Liberty can also apply the value of the Starz/Encore contract it has with Comcast against the purchase price, she says.
Too great a leniency, however--for instance, by allowing the value of GM's own stock to be applied against pension liability--might jeopardize the interests of thousands of retired auto workers.
It is mainly applied against drug addicts.
Various imputation methods were applied for the missing values, and the results compared against the observed value to assess accuracy of the imputation methods.
The conventional one is to plot the shear stress values against horizontal displacement, for each normal load applied, determine the peak values, and plot same with the normal load applied.
These single-position values were smoothed using the same sliding-windows weighted averaging scheme applied to the rate values above, normalized to vary between 0 and 1, and plotted against the position in the protein.
