McFall, who was part of the parliamentary commission on banking standards set up following the furore caused by Barclays' £290m fine for Libor rigging, said the NCA – which has the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on its advisory board – and the LSE wanted to work together to help devise benchmarks for the industry.
A RETRAN-02 model was devised and benchmarked against the preliminary safety analysis report (PSAR) for the Lungmen nuclear power plant roughly 10 years ago.
By using a standard database with a clearly classified set of cells, we devised a benchmark test in which the algorithms had to distinguish pyramidal cells from interneurons.
Performances of the newly devised algorithms were benchmarked against genetic algorithms in solving ten test cases.
The issues include dealing with test set bias caused by, for example, inappropriate normalization procedure, devising appropriate benchmarking criteria and formulating statistically robust feature-selection techniques.
Based on the results of this procedure, a conceptual framework is devised to facilitate addressing relevant benchmarking implications.
But other academics, including John Lamberth, an associate professor of psychology at Temple University, say appropriate benchmarks can be devised.
A lot of sophisticated-sounding benchmarks have been devised to measure their performance, such as the Sharpe ratio, which compares the volatility of a portfolio with its excess return (over the risk-free rate).But the authors propose a very simple measure, first suggested by Paul Myners, a minister in Britain's last Labour government.
Our approach to defining cell surface signatures in differentiating cultures of pluripotent human stem cells will potentially enable quantitative benchmarks to be devised for comparing specific cell populations generated by different hESC and hiPSC lines.
With Benchmark, he and associates devised a software system that helps hospitals train employees and organize patient information in such a way that it is easier to qualify for cost reimbursement from insurance companies.
