0 a system of providing and controlling the exchange of money in a country, in which the value of money (compared to foreign money) is fixed against that of gold --
1 something that is very good and is used for measuring how good other similar things are: --
2 the situation in which a currency’s value is based on the price of gold: --
3 something that is very good and is used for measuring how good other similar things are: --
In the absence of a serological 'gold standard', the search for improvements in diagnostic accuracy continues.
This is usually achieved by comparing an instrument against one or more 'gold standard' instruments.
The current 'gold standard' for diagnosis of bacteraemia is still the blood culture.
A second disadvantage is that controlled experiments, often taken to be the gold standard of causal inference, are much less available to social scientists.
Or, more likely, not thinking through the reformulation and implications of this "gold standard" consent process.
In this environment the gold standard became an engine for de-ation.
The mentality of the gold standard proved resistant to change even under the most pressing economic circumstances.
The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.
