Making the issue of particular interest to investors is the very real possibility that the debt securities of Fannie Mae and those other enterprises will replace the Treasury bond as the national or even worldwide benchmark for low-risk debt.
8 The 1993 World Development Report: Investing in Health proposed that interventions costing less than $100 per life year saved are cost effective for middle-income countries while $50 per life-year gained is a reasonable benchmark for low-income countries [ 33].
Kuittinen (2015a) presented a method for setting benchmark levels for low carbon humanitarian construction: the emissions of humanitarian shelters are compared to the per capita GHG emissions of their countries.
However, it is hard to analyze mobile GPUs in depth via existing high-level (with frames per second) or low-level benchmarks (with a fill rate, ALU performance, etc).. To bridge the gap between the benchmarks, we present a novel Android benchmark set for low-power GPUs, called L-Bench.
By testing the productivity of the analysed cultivars in unfavourable conditions, a benchmark for the potentially lowest plantation yields was obtained.
Setting a low benchmark for new Russian government debt could help commercial borrowers refinance at better rates, as the overall country risk would appear lower.
When Hillary Clinton took the stage in Warren, Michigan, on Thursday to deliver a highly publicized address outlining her plans to revitalize the American economy, the benchmark for success was set low.
She said: "Of course happiness is important, but it is a low benchmark for any business to set for their employees, regardless of gender... in the marketing and advertising world, where I found my feet, it is staggering to consider that women drive approximately 80% of consumer spending but represent less than a third of senior positions".
