Sentence examples for as a benchmark for setting from inspiring English sources
Libor is used as a benchmark for setting financial contracts and interest rates around the world.
A foreign diplomat recalls that his unauthorised attempt to inspect one "almost caused a riot", with officials quickly ushering him away.By using the farmers' markets as a benchmark for setting grain prices, the government is heading in the right direction.
The product of the oilfield, Brent Crude, is used as a benchmark for setting oil prices in the North Sea sector.
The federal funds rate -- the rate at which Federal Reserve banks borrow overnight funds from each other -- is also the rate that most financial institutions use as a benchmark for setting all consumer interest rates, including mortgage rates, auto loan rates, savings account rates and rates for certificates of deposit.
This records Key Performance Indicators which might be used as a benchmark for setting predicted levels of service performance although it is important to note that PROMs are not currently included [ 16].
The fit of these models serves as a benchmark for a second set of models that tests the effects of liquidity risk and other variables, replacing the time dummies in the first set of regressions.
Postdoctoral salaries have improved since the mid-1990s as NIH increased its minimum fellowship stipend levels--often used as benchmarks for setting stipends from other sources--to nearly $37,000 for new Ph.D.s compared with just $20,000 in 1997.
This set could serve as a benchmark set for future development efforts in the community.
Although this score is used as a benchmark for mortality in the trauma setting, some trauma centres have reported observed mortality rates below those predicted by TRISS [ 65- 67].
Next, we applied various distance measures to a set of 27 mitochondrial genomes from different primates that were previously used by [ 46] as a benchmark data set for alignment-free approaches.
DUD was initially created as a benchmark set for molecular docking but, like some previous authors [19, 53, 54], we use it to test ligand-based virtual screening methods.
