But there are flickering signs that maybe the worst is over for King Crude as the price for the two dominant oil benchmarks — Brent and West Texas intermediate — have each climbed above $40 a barrel after dipping below $30 two months ago.
In the longer term, if China does truly open its doors, the impact will be very big: MSCI reckons that its index weight could rise to nearly 44%, making it the dominant player in the benchmark.Although MSCI did not mention it, the Chinese stockmarket's manic bull run was another factor that had worried foreign investors.
And as Mr. Kagan chronicles with numbers and history, the United States remains the world's dominant power by virtually every benchmark, with a resilience that has belied earlier predictions of decline.
He is averaging 9.7 points and 6.7 rebounds and has put together a recent batch of double-doubles, or games in which he has at least 10 points and 10 rebounds -- often considered a benchmark for a dominant performance by a big man.
The spectrum of this signal shown in Figure 4b illustrates that the ambient signal includes rich information about the dominant oscillation modes in 36-node benchmark system, especially Mode I. Figure 4 Frequency signal of Gen8 in 36-node benchmark system.
The proposed algorithm is accompanied by a performance analysis for two numerical benchmarks, in which the dominant sources of computational load and parallel overhead as well as their competitive role in the efficiency of the algorithm will be demonstrated.
Table 1 Dominant low-frequency oscillation modes of 36-node benchmark system Mode Eigenvalue Frequency (Hz) Damping ratio I −0.0549 + j 4.885 0.778 1.123 II −0.270 + j 6.152 0.980 4.348.
Overall, we conclude from our benchmarks that DIALIGN-TX is the dominant program on locally related sequence protein and DNA families that consist of closely related motives embedded in long unalignable sequences.
The wireless Internet is quickly emerging as the dominant technology platform, said Matt Cohler, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, a prominent venture firm in Silicon Valley that has invested in start-ups like Twitter.
Mr Bernanke said allowing diverse views reduces the risk that one voice becomes "unduly dominant".Another theme is a more prominent role for explicit benchmarks.
