Sentence examples for yardstick to compare from inspiring English sources
The perceptual quality metric in (23) is used as a yardstick to compare the perceptual effects of various possible adaptations.
Measurements of mercury levels in sperm whales in different regions may provide a much-needed global yardstick to compare the extent of mercury pollution in different regions, Evers says.
An alternative yardstick is to compare GDP per person now with what it would have been if it had continued to grow at the same pace as during the ten years before the crisis.
Moreover, they represent a yardstick against which to compare highly selected breeds and allowing the detection of genes under selection [ 6].
We use the distribution of maximal bicliques in a graph as a yardstick against which to compare different generative models of graphs.
Williams and Whitworth [ 24] provided a characterisation of the TCS genes from 1405 replicons as a pangenomic yardstick against which to compare TCS gene sets and these are included in Table 2 as bacterial mean values.> -wrap-foot> For each genome, the numbers of TCS genes are presented, broken down by type.
Synonymous sites in coding sequences have long been used as a neutral yardstick against which to compare amino acid changing substitutions, in the hope of detecting either purifying or positive selection on proteins (Kimura 1977; McDonald and Kreitman 1991; Goldman and Yang 1994; Muse and Gaut 1994).
The results of the test are then made as a yardstick to be compared with the results that they obtain after first semester.
An alternative yardstick (see article) is to compare GDP per head now with what might have been expected if it had continued to grow at the same pace as during the ten years before the crisis.
However, for the time being, ranibizumab will remain the gold-standard treatment for neovascular AMD and DME due to its good long-term efficacy and safety profiles and will be the yardstick for new treatments to compare with.
What we were doing before was, in effect, using different yardsticks for different companies, and it made them difficult to compare to each other.
