Sentence examples for gauge for comparison from inspiring English sources

The founder of an Internet company says that every dollar earned up to $300 million is positive, but beyond that point, since it mainly becomes a gauge for comparison with others, it increasingly reminds you that others have more -- like coming in fifth in the Miss America contest.

Using Akaike's information criterion as a gauge for model comparison, genome-wide estimates of FST were clustered into two groups, one representing 19'471 putatively neutral loci, and another one included 21'124 loci possibly corresponding to genomic regions affected by selection.

Data from six tide gauges are also used for comparison.

In all cases where a p value is shown, a two-tailed, unpaired Students' t-test was used to gauge significance, except for comparisons of diabetes incidences in which case the Kaplan-Meier survival test was used.

For comparison with the dense gauge network serving as "ground truth", 500 sparse gauge networks are generated through random combinations of gauge numbers at each set of spatiotemporal scales.

As mentioned earlier, a number of conventional electrical resistance strain gauges were also implemented in this study for comparison with the Smart Strand system.

It was a rail gauge, to measure the distance between the rails by hand for comparison with electronic readings.

These may have been ceremonial rods or, perhaps, master gauges for calibration and comparison; their brittleness would make them unsuitable for the rough handling received by mason's tools.

In addition, experiments were conducted for comparison of smart CFRP bar with strain gauges mounted on surface of smart cable.

For comparison, the MMSE and FAQ were also used in order to gauge the AQ's performance against instruments that have been more widely used.

We primarily use tide gauge records from the German Bight but also consider data from sites around the UK and Australia for comparison.