Sentence examples for benchmark close to from inspiring English sources

A benchmark close to the performance of 20% (w/w) Pt/C (E-TEK Inc., USA) was observed for the ɛ-MnO2/C material in the kinetic control region, superior to the performance of α-MnO2/C, but a higher amount of HO2− was obtained when ɛ-MnO2/C was used as catalyst.

We used 20,000 bp regions to keep the benchmark close to a genome-wide search situation; the regions were roughly 100 and 2000 times larger than the average peak region and TFBS.

On the GCAT benchmark closest to the conditions it was optimised for (see 100bp in Figure 1) the reduction in accuracy is negligible.

The two governments would jointly announce a formal benchmark target, close to today's PPP rate (the exact number is not too important) of 120 yen to the dollar.

But the cost of living has lingered well below the ECB's inflation benchmark of "close to 2 per cent" since early 2013 and disappointed again yesterday, remaining unchanged at 0.1 per cent in November against expectations of a slight rise.

The 30-year yield, until a decade ago the world's benchmark, was close to 5%.The obvious cause for the change in mood is the American economy and the policy stance of the Federal Reserve.

In the bond market, the price of Treasury bonds gained yesterday, pushing benchmark yields close to three-month lows as doubts about corporate profits sent stocks sliding and drove investors to the safety of government securities.

In effect, they have challenged those relatively weak governments to raise taxes and impose harsh spending cuts on a restive populace to bring down their deficits from over 10 percent of G.D.P. to the benchmark levels close to 3 percent of G.D.P. called for in the European treaty that created the euro.

The performance of generated CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) code from GXBIT on a number of benchmarks is close to 63% of the hand-tuned GPU code.

The Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.4% to 12,263.32 points, its highest close since since Aug. 7, 2001, when the benchmark closed at 12,319.46 points.

The global Brent crude oil benchmark closed at $41.50 on Tuesday, a three-and-a-half-month low.