Sentence examples similar to determine the yardstick from inspiring English sources

Originally derived from a U.S. Department of Agriculture Household Food Consumption Survey in 1955, Census determines the yardstick poverty threshold by multiplying the subsistence food budget by three while only counting income and cash assistance.

Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the "health" of our economy and nation.

Nowadays, a yardstick used to determine the best locations for wind energy development is referred to as wind power density (WPD).

"The extremely distant supernovae will allow us to refine their use as custom yardsticks, providing greater precision that will allow us to better determine the properties of dark energy," Filippenko said.

In order to determine the immersion depth of Arb, instead of determining z, we used the phospholipids as a yardstick by comparing their PRE with the one of Arb.

29 31 34 35 These studies used clinical diagnosis as the yardstick in determining the accuracy and sensitivity.

Ideally, a robust social media presence would have been an invaluable yardstick in determining the intensity of influence these individuals exert over their enthusiasts.

Fortunately there is a way: the "Journal Impact Factor" (JIF), a rating given to academic journals that captures the impact of the publication based on a scientific analysis of citation data; a yardstick for determining the overall influence of a research publication.

If you are setting goals, you want to be the best and if that's the yardstick that determines you are the best, then you take it seriously".

The City Council applied the yardstick of inflation rate to determine allowable rent increases.

In Latimer's case, he was determined not to move the yardsticks.