Taiwanese technology companies have decades of experience in accepting detailed computer performance benchmarks from American customers and then figuring out the least expensive way to meet those benchmarks.
Acura engineers and designers, in fact, used German cars as their benchmarks, from the exterior design to interior craftsmanship to features like cup holders.
When evaluating performance, those four Russell indexes, while not the only decent benchmarks from which you can choose, are as good a place to start as any.
But he is far enough behind that he instead needs a "game change" — something that fundamentally alters the dynamics of the race and allows him to substantially improve on his benchmarks from previous states.
Because the awards available under Simon Property's 1998 plan consisted only of those based on performance, lawyers for the Louisiana system contend that eliminating benchmarks from Mr. Simon's award increased the types of awards available under the plan.
Human Rights Watch admonished the I.O.C. to use this moment to demand several concrete benchmarks from Saudi officials: allowing sports for girls in schools, creating women's sections in the Saudi Olympic Committee and related sports federations and allowing women who live in the country to compete in international events.
He sounds like someone who's absorbed the entire history of snotty guitar rock – not just the obvious benchmarks, from the Sonics to Ramones via the Stooges and Black Sabbath, but chaotic 60s freakbeat and lo-fi 70s proto-punk outbursts like the Electric Eels and George Brigman – and now can't stop it spewing out, all at once, at ear-splitting volume.
The study also compared the material tested with benchmarks from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, concluding that in math, the skills tested on high school exit exams in the United States are taught in middle school in many other countries.
This enables comparisons and benchmarks from administrative data in Germany.
We also conducted experiments on benchmarks from International Planning Competitions.
Four benchmarks from the open literature are simulated in order to validate the proposed approach.
