In medicine and statistics, gold standard test usually refers to a diagnostic test or benchmark that is the best available under reasonable conditions.

The EurepGAP standard, for instance, is likely to become a very important international benchmark for ensuring food safety and consistently high quality of horticultural produce.

Moreover, Oz s fee is the standard two and twenty 2 for funds under management plus a 20 performance bonus for returns that exceed some benchmark say, 4 .

There were no standard price lists of treatment, drugs and medicines and therefore information was not available as a benchmark to ensure that only reasonable amounts were reimbursed.

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The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is the official Software Engineering Institute (SEI) method to provide benchmark quality ratings relative to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models.

iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

Well, this from The Purpose Driven Life The Bible must become the authoritative standard for my life, the compass I rely on for direction, the counsel I listen to for making wise decisions and the benchmark I use for evaluating everything.

In such systems, the government directly controls the benchmark interest rates.

But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre crisis growth performance.

I have been tracking these so called benchmark revisions for about 40 years.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

Subtract 2.5 for inflation, and you get a benchmark expected real return of 1.26 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

We remain open to considering all proposals and will evaluate them against that benchmark.

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

WP Activity 8 Evaluate the state of the art of common benchmark and indicator systems

The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

The next step is the Women in senior positions' benchmark, which is currently being developed.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

Non standard measures helped to clear standard measures transmission path.

The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.

When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.

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If the Washington Fiscal Consensus proves correct, when benchmark rates eventually edge upwards, they will move slowly.

The summit has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the benchmark of progress towards that objective.

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

The last remaining technical benchmark was the requirement for 65 per cent staffing of State defence institutions.

The system is a financial industry standard, which consolidates into a unique and integral database all of the various financial data sources of the Investment Management Service, allowing the certification of data accuracy by the Service and the creation of metadata and benchmark indices, which are essential for improved investment analytical processes.

In 1992 the same standard was also adopted as ISO standard 11756 1992.

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