“Comparison is the thief of joy,” Theodore Roosevelt once said. The former U.S. president was clearly not a healthcare leader. Because when comparative benchmarking is used as a tool in healthcare, ...

They are everywhere, but invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are the unseen, influential forces behind the regulation of key environmental processes such as the carbon cycle, yet most of them remain ...

In crop-breeding, plant phenotyping is the detailed study of a plant’s characteristic ‘visible’ or phenotypic features. It includes counting the number of plants generated by a crossing experiment and ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA).

Benchmarking methods can be used to extrapolate (or “nowcast”) low-frequency benchmarks on the basis of available high-frequency indicators. Quarterly national accounts are a typical example, where a ...

BenchmarkDotNet is a lightweight, open source, powerful .NET library that can transform your methods into benchmarks, track those methods, and then provide insights into the performance data captured.