As all methods had access to the same sets of reference cancer genes used for our benchmarks, and may have trained against these, these findings may represent an upper bound on performance.
Two notes of caution before starting this exercise: The more individual stocks, bonds and funds you throw into the mix, the more benchmarks you may have to track.
And although the rate cuts are beginning to have an effect on financial conditions throughout the economy -- the dollar, for example, has fallen sharply in the last few weeks -- they say the Fed's benchmark rate may have to go lower, and stay there longer, to turn the economy around.
Such benchmarking practice may have improved but is still not applied in many centres and countries.
My view was and is that if the UN had come together and delivered a tough ultimatum to Saddam, listing clearly what he had to do, benchmarking it, he may have folded and events set in train that might just and eventually have led to his departure from power.
These will provide benchmark standards but may have to be interpreted in the light of local facilities and expertise.
Robert Parker, the American wine critic whose scores serve as a sort of unofficial benchmark for Bordeaux pricing, may have already put the nail in the 2011 coffin.
I think Matt may have benchmarked some SSDs a little while back well, just one, it turns out—, and Dave did a nice little round-up, but the idea behind them is that they're really quite fast, much faster than a traditional hard disk drive.
Finally, the frequency of visits made by the patients in both the benchmarking and control groups may have positively influenced outcomes in both the groups.
Benchmark: Understands that social groups may have patterns of behavior, values, beliefs and attitudes that can help or hinder cross-cultural understanding.
