Comparative computational studies have opened a new way for easier benchmarking and functional analysis of proteins.
Thirty-nine games is the closest anyone has come to a perfect result, so that's an easy benchmark for success.
In what now counts as an endorsement, Jefferies's shares trade a bit above book value, a theoretically easy benchmark to meet but one failed by most competitors.
But the unemployment rate is headed in the wrong direction, an argument that Republicans hope will provide an easy benchmark against which voters can judge the president.
As gains in the major indexes have slowed, or reversed, many money managers have been finding the S.& P. 500 an easy benchmark to beat.
It was an easy benchmark figure. Understanding how the genes function and interact with each other is much more valuable information, Daly says, which scientists are just starting to gather.
Although we lack an a priori basis for extrapolating our result to higher order, it is evident that the performance level of a method based on DRA is an easy benchmark to exceed.
"It would be better to have a large Treasury debt outstanding so that those of us who deal in the financial markets have easy benchmarks and easy means of pricing and of funding," he told senators in February.
Dr. Berry notes that fitness varies greatly with age and sex, and that mile-time estimates are just easy benchmarks for patients and doctors to begin a discussion about fitness.
Mr. Greenspan said that there was no doubt that other things being equal, "it would be better to have a large Treasury debt outstanding so that those of us who deal in the financial markets have easy benchmarks and easy means of pricing and of funding," he said in answer to a question as he testified before the Senate Banking Committee.
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Mr. Greenspan said that all things being equal, there was no doubt that "it would be better to have a large Treasury debt outstanding so that those of us who deal in the financial markets have easy benchmarks and easy means of pricing and of funding".
