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

The use of this standard has not gained much acceptance outside the environmental industry.

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 .

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.

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.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

The term standard operating procedure, or SOP, is used in a variety of different contexts, including healthcare, aviation, engineering, education, industry, and military.

In addition, UNDP has recently revised its Programming Manual and has adopted an industry standard project management method, Prince2, which focuses on results.

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The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

This led to Journalistic Objectivity as an industry standard a set of conventions allowing the news to be presented as all things to all people .

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

The language was an inter service standard for British military programming, and was also widely adopted for civil purposes in the British control and automation industry.

The industry standard for such information, Epocrates, offers a mobile app with information about pretty much every drug on the market, but neglects other kinds of treatments.

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.

After the widescreen wars of the 1950s, the motion picture industry settled into 1.85 as a standard for theatrical projection in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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

The OTA XML standard serves to improve the ability of consumers to search and book in a single online operation, as well as increasing aggregation processes in the industry.

At present, space industry enterprises are converting their production capacities to civilian uses for turning out world standard high technology competitive products relying, among other things, on space technology.

The National Chicken Council, the trade association for the US chicken industry, recommends a stocking density of 85 square inches per bird less than a standard sheet of typing paper.

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

Industry Nothing more than a simple primitive industry, and food industry, including bread, sugar, flour, and the construction industry.

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.

Revise the activity (European Classification, Rev.1.1) and product classifications (Classification of Products by Activity) in accordance with changes in the International Standard Industry Classification of All Economic Activities and the Central Product Classification

(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.

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Non standard measures helped to clear standard measures transmission path.

The Provincial Governments have extended this initiative industry by industry.

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.