A mutual-fund manager looks good by outperforming his or her relevant "benchmark" -- for instance, the S&P 500.
It added that individual retailer performance can be better than the benchmark — with Pretty Green, for instance, reducing its overall returns rate from 13%to3%3%.
In particular, it discovers an improved best known result for 15 benchmark instances (6 classical instances and 9 large-sized instances whose optima are unknown).
Numerical results are reported on instances derived from benchmark instances for the vehicle routing problem with time windows with up to 200 customers.
The choice of context-generic or -specific themes and subthemes (goals and objectives) for sustainability assessment implies a number of tradeoffs; for instance, benchmarking and resource efficiency vs. coverage and engagement.
The score was higher when the developmental stage on an item, for instance, benchmarking, was higher.
For instance, benchmarking tests suggested that Inparanoid performs best while BRH is good for closely-related species [ 38].
International benchmarking helps to explain for instance efficiency differences in hospitals and it supports hospitals to improve their processes.
Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, for instance, declined in the second quarter to 1.4percentt from 1.78percentt.
Germany's benchmark DAX index of stocks, for instance, has risen 39 percent in the last year, even though that nation's economy, while strong for Europe, is hardly humming along.
The cap on the benchmark one-year deposit rate, for instance, is 2.52%, while the floor for the one-year lending rate is slightly over 6%, allowing banks and those institutions that loan money a 3.5% interest spread.
