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Since signal intensity is not exactly proportional to gene concentration across different probe sets, only the fold change values of each gene between comparisons are considered reliable and used to benchmark both algorithms.
Although the price of oil has spiked lately, last time Chatterbox checked it was $25 per barrel, which (factoring out inflation and taxes) was less than it was in 1973 (when oil prices were lower than they were in Global 2000 's benchmark year of 1975).
All estimated slope coefficients are greater than the benchmark value -1/2 implied by the Markovian analogy.
National standards would set a benchmark for what children of different ages should be expected to know.
The Commission chose the actual FY 2000 results as a convenient benchmark for measuring the effect of a domestic postage-based terminal dues system.