The "benchmark" database, against which the queries were searched, consisted of all ASTRAL 40 sequences.
BAliBase [ 22, 29] was the first large scale benchmark dataset against which alignment programs were routinely assessed.
Here, though, the authors use income figures from 2008 before the crisis really hit as a "benchmark" against which to compare the incomes of subsequent years.
Last week, the state auditor's office issued a nonpartisan report praising Kennedy's four years in office, when her office "met or exceeded every benchmark against which it was compared in a difficult market," according to Buck Global Investment Advisors, which performed the audit for the state.
The price indices that result have provided the benchmark against which many energy contracts and derivatives have been pegged over the years.
In the absence of a perfect benchmark, the best course for you and your money manager is to agree in advance on the benchmark against which he will be judged.
The country's gross domestic product per capita (GDP-PC) (in 2012 prices) was used as a benchmark against which to consider the cost-effectiveness of strategies that reported the cost per life-year saved, cost per disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) averted or cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained [ 69].
Using GDP per capita as a benchmark against which to consider the cost per DALY averted, cost per QALY gained and cost per life-year saved, all the strategies that report these measures would be considered cost-effective [ 70].
*Gross domestic product per capita (GDP-PC) in US$ 2012 prices is included as a benchmark against which to consider the cost per DALY averted, cost per QALY gained and cost per life-year saved.
