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Initially, it served as a benchmark for acceptance of charging for the majority of the sample, and was connected to the constructs "independency", "flexibility" and "availability".

While economists tend to focus on the Treasury market because it serves as a benchmark for other interest rates, portfolio managers who have decided to invest in bonds spend most of their time evaluating different securities to find which are expensive or cheap relative to other issues.

It establishes a fundamental limit on the achievable localization accuracy, and it serves as a benchmark for any unbiased location estimator.

Along with the bound for first-order AR models in (36), it serves as a benchmark in the numerical evaluations in Section 5.

It serves as a benchmark in the numerical evaluations in Section 5. Initially, we present a simplified analysis of a toy example, in order to help the understanding of the benefit from pilot sequence hopping.

Firstly, it serves as a benchmark to measure the gain of the theoretical SIC given by (23) and the more realistic minimum mean square error method given by (24), over the conventional four color frequency reuse schemes as given by (22) Secondly, the effect of beam overlapping on the performance of the system is investigated.

As this is the first study to evaluate knowledge uptake in clinicians from these materials, it serves as a benchmark for future work in this area.

This model ignores the correlation among the subsequent hemoglobin values and hence is not a candidate choice, however, it serves as a benchmark to evaluate the more realistic models.

And it served as a telling benchmark — for how far Tiafoe has come in the past year, and how far he has yet to go to join the ranks of the game's elite.

It serves as a quantitative benchmark as to what to expect when combining XRPD and DFT-D, and at the same time provides a thorough quantitative analysis of the quality of molecular crystal structures determined from XRPD data.

A large dataset of DNA-binding proteins is constructed from the Protein Data Bank and it serves as a gold-standard benchmark to evaluate the metaDBSite approach and the other six predictors.