Sentence examples for yardstick output from inspiring English sources
Later this can be seen more clearly in the "yardstick" output from FACETS, where the various scores are placed side by side.
As to the first of these, the efficiency of industrial operations, for instance, may be evaluated by the yardstick of output per worker or machine, and such a yardstick may also provide the basis for supplemental or premium payments for workers.
The 49-page report, according to its lead author, Jonathan Rothwell, a senior research associate at Brookings, was an attempt to put a yardstick to the output of innovation, make comparisons and suggest useful policy steps.
The United States economy is performing relatively well by some yardsticks — a steady increase in economic output, a surge in corporate profits and new stock market highs — but the robust job market that is a key focus now of Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and other Fed policy makers remains out of reach.
Depending on which yardstick you prefer, that amounts to the output of seven average nuclear plants or six large coal-fired plants.
Luckily there is a yardstick that finesses many of these problems: electricity output, which is mainly a measure of consumer affluence and industrial activity.
Yet analysis by BCA Research, a Canadian research firm, finds surprisingly little evidence of wasteful overinvestment to date.One yardstick of the efficiency of capital is the incremental capital-output ratio (ICOR)—the investment needed to generate an additional unit of output (ie, annual investment divided by the annual increase in GDP).
Over 25 years ago, Mensah [ 1] identified many dysfunctional manifestations in the process of tenure and promotion that result from judging an academic scholar's ability and worthiness using a yardstick that measures only the success rate of research grant applications and the quota of publication outputs.
A new readability yardstick.
