Sentence examples for a consistent proxy from inspiring English sources

The evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has found that, among other primates, the frequency of grooming is a consistent proxy for group size and coherence.

Similar measures have been developed in India and other settings and have been shown to be a consistent proxy for household income and expenditure (47).

Latitudinal distances between killifish residence sites (Table  1) were used to provide a consistent proxy to assess regional influences but were not intended to convey 'as-the-fish-swims' distances.

As perceived health is a consistent proxy of happiness and well-being [ 48, 49], participants were asked to rate their health (i.e., "How, in general, would you rate your health at this moment?") on a Likert scale from 0 (very poor health) to 10 (very good health).

Although one may argue that the PR tends to converge to the IDR as the outcome event gets rarer, the question remains as to 'how rare should an outcome be' in order to enable one to accept the PR as a consistent proxy to the causal effect parameter.

These results suggest that muscle tissue is the most consistent proxy for carbon isotope fractionation when compared to the findings of many previous studies on fish (Hesslein et al. 1993; Pinnegar and Polunin 1999).

It may be that vitamin/mineral supplement use is a proxy for a consistent, organized household or healthy behaviors resulting from overall adaptive family functioning [ 53].

For low levels of background selection or frequent positive sweeps, the effect of hitch-hiking (controlled by β) and the amount of clonal interference (using the observed number of beneficial mutations as a proxy) has a consistent effect on the MK statistics.

Because the KennXXXX maps explicitly capture disturbance and growth processes using a consistent technique, they serve as a proxy for the expected differences between maps for any given pair of years.

Some nodes do have a consistent degree throughout the course of letrozole treatment however, stable degree is not a proxy for stable gene-gene relationships.

Set a consistent bedtime.