(n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) To measure the drug response, the extent of clinical improvement following treatment was used as a yardstick.
(2) Using the DSM-3 diagnosis as a yardstick, the performance of the hospital anxiety depression scale was compared with that of the general health questionnaire.
(3) The Goslon (Great Ormond Street, London and Oslo) Yardstick is a clinical tool that allows categorization of the dental relationships in the late mixed and or early permanent dentition stage into five discrete categories.
(4) With regard to glutathione, directly measured decrease, as compared to control levels, may be used as the yardstick of the changes.
(5) In our opinion our observations do not demonstrate a better capacity of recovery of the young patients: but the young patients show a more severe clinical picture than the older patients do, if only the clinical syndrome of coma grade III with extensor rigidity, is considered as a yardstick for comparison.
(6) By those yardsticks, 2010 is doing its best to oblige and the debate last night undoubtedly helped.
(7) The 15N-excretion via the urine, in terms of % of N absorbed from the food protein, served as yardstick of protein quality under maintenance conditions.
(8) The surge of populist, nationalist movements in Europe , and their apparent counterpart in the US, has stirred unhappy memories and has, perhaps inevitably, had commentators and others reaching for the historical yardstick to see if today measures up to 80 years ago.
(9) The unemployment rate using the internationally agreed yardstick for calculating joblessness rose to 7.9% for May to July, from 7.7% in February to April.
(10) However, this simplified yardstick should not be applied for comparison of the carcinogenic potency of different types of PAH-containing exhausts.
(11) Even when women succeed, the male norm remains the yardstick.
(12) He argued that the government's inexperience and "perhaps a touch of recklessness" had led Osborne to repeatedly cite the UK's credit rating as such an important yardstick.
(13) Obtained value of fractal dimension of protein surface (ds congruent to 2.2) is in a good agreement with the results of conventional approach (with variation of yardstick length) to protein surface fractality.
(14) The increase in the CPI measure of inflation was matched by a rise in the alternative yardstick of the cost of living, the retail prices index, which rose from 5.1% to 5.5% last month, its highest for 20 years.
(15) By that ultimate yardstick of superpower status, nuclear weapons, the US far outstrips China.
(16) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
(17) On this basis, the use of a specific probing depth at 3 or 12 months following treatment as a yardstick for the provision of supplementary treatment may not be justified.
(18) So says Richard Burger, regulatory partner at City law firm RPC , anyway: “The number of prosecutions achieved by the regulators with their new powers will be seen as the yardstick of their success.
(19) The effect of pharmacological immunosuppression with either cortisone acetate or cyclosporine provided a "yardstick" to measure the magnitude of transfusion effects.
(20) The government has two ways of calculating unemployment: the claimant count, a narrow measure of the number of people out of work and claiming certain state benefits; and the Labour Force Survey, an internationally-agreed yardstick that classifies someone as unemployed if they are out of work and have actively looked for a job in the past month.