Thus, their emotional state became directly tied to their PSA levels, which were seen as a material index of cancer.
This is particularly true of the biomarkers used in tertiary prevention, which some cancer survivors perceive as a material index of cancer's presence in the body.
In his article in the American Interest, he offers up what he calls a "Material Power Index" where the number one equals the average wealth position of Americans across the bottom 90percentt of the population.
Existing surcharges and price policies linked to a raw materials index remain in effect, it said.
Over the past five years the price of aluminum is up 73%, and the S&P 500 Materials Index, a basket of 31 stocks that Alcoa uses as a benchmark, is up 71%.
Nike, a shoemaker, has produced a Materials Sustainability Index that provides designers with information on the potential environmental impact of the products they use.
500 climbed 3.4percentt, while the materials index jumped 10.1percentt and the financial services index rose 1.4percentt.
materials index could plunge by 12.8percentto23.9percentcent, while the financial services index could fall by 7.6percentto14.5percentcent.
The best performer over the last two years is the materials index, which is up 24percentt.
But the materials index, which falls in the RiskMetrics analysis, rose 3.3percentt.
We also included a more standard measure of neighbourhood disadvantage as another covariate which was expressed as a material deprivation index Q, based on the 2006 Ontario Marginalization Index; 26 http://www.torontohealthprofiles.ca/onmarg.php.
