Sentence examples for relative benchmark from inspiring English sources

In effect, the rising wages of workers in industries where productivity is rising set a relative benchmark for workers in all industries.

Other studies use a relative benchmark for poverty: for example, placing the poverty line at about one-half of the median household income of a nation or region.

Using the same relative benchmarking idea that is currently used to incentivize cost reduction, hospitals' waiting times should be measured (as they are) and benchmarked against the national (risk-adjusted) average waiting time of patients with similar conditions.

The relative benchmarks for concentration levels used by our team of hygienists were 'Low' for welders and boiler operators, 'Medium' for boiler and pipe insulators and marine firemen and 'High' for miners and insulation workers (blowers and sprayers).

There is also growing interest in more rigorous performance analysis, including that relative to benchmark indices (see article).

It helps also credit spreads relative to benchmark government debt have tightened in line with those in the U.S. and Europe.

The Sprint Capital Corporation sold $5 billion of bonds yesterday in the second-biggest corporate sale ever, as investors rushed to take advantage of some of the highest yields relative to benchmark Treasury securities in at least a decade.

A study funded by the German government found that the availability of ten year debt for wind parks had fallen by as much as 40% while the cost of debt relative to benchmark interest rates more than tripled in 2009.

In both cases we find that the standard deviation of the Gaussian predictors as well as the absolute errors relative to benchmark stochastic solutions are very small, suggesting that the proposed multi-fidelity GPR approaches can yield highly accurate results.

The mounting concern over "munis" has brought with it hedge funds and financial institutions who want to bet on the bonds' creditworthiness, or make money on the back of volatile "spreads" -- the premiums at which munis trade relative to benchmark debt.

In addition to identifying individual epitopes within a protein, EpiMatrix can then also assess the overall immunogenicity risk of a protein according to its epitope density relative to benchmark proteins (De Groot and Martin, 2009; Koren et al., 2007).