"He was the first guy to say, 'Food can be poetic, it can be abstract.' " Adrià's aberrant fantasies are not, to be sure, daily reference points for Chang's cooking, but the idea of Noodle Bar from the start was to take the humblest meal — a bowl of noodles, a pork bun — and, with a combination of obsessive devotion and four-star technique, turn it into something amazing.
We further explored potential seasonal shifts by calculating the mean net displacement of daily locations from a common reference point at the northernmost corner of the SPA.
Its careful messages in the last week — conveyed in part through the levels of the daily reference rate — appeared to underline this point.
Instead of ignoring movements in the currency market, the central bank said it would begin to use them as the reference point in its daily setting of the exchange rate.
To compare city-specific effects, an exposure indicator was defined based on the difference between daily MAT and a city-specific reference point, corresponding to thermal comfort.
By nature, meaningful anchors will vary from case to case, but there are a few general numbers that could be used as a reference point, like median annual salary; daily, weekly, or monthly profits; or remediation costs.
The prescribed dose was 30 Gy, delivered over two weeks in 10 daily fractions of 3 Gy to the ICRU reference point.
The radiotherapy schedule consisted of a total dose of 60 Gy prescribed at the International Commission on Units and Measurements (ICRU) reference point and administered in 30 daily fractions over a period of 6 weeks (5 fractions per week).
The daily prescription dose was 1.8 Gy at the ICRU reference point and the 95% isodose had to encompass the entire planning target volume (PTV).
Daily fractions of 1.8 Gy (calculated at the ICRU 50 reference point) were given on 5 days a week over 5 weeks to a total dose of 50.4 Gy.
