Sentence examples for a proxy for assessing from inspiring English sources

Concentrations of the fungal spore Sporormiella are used as a proxy for assessing large herbivore activity.

The seasonal difference in carbon stocks is a proxy for assessing the implications of grazing intensity on rangeland carbon.

Based on the results reported by Pi et al. ([1997]), Basu et al. ([1999]), and Beach and Kintner ([1999]), it was concluded that ROTI could be used as a proxy for assessing the presence of ionospheric scintillation.

Foraging performance was related both to self-regulation and working memory and we suggest that the foraging task may be developed further to work as a proxy for assessing cognitive development.

Since BS-seq is DNA-based sequencing, the coverage of the reads (i.e. depth) can be used as a proxy for assessing CNVs.

Coincident with an outbreak, deviations in television viewership, for example, can provide a proxy for assessing changes in time spent at home and thus in social contacts.

While the space for time approach provides a useful proxy for assessing evolutionary responses within a single generation, multigenerational studies that track populations across time are essential next steps to corroborating discoveries that use the space for time approach (Moczek et al. 2011; Wund 2012).

Overall, RE pyrolysis appears as an appropriate tool for landscape scale carbon inventories and could become a standardized proxy for assessing the vulnerability of SOC stocks.

Overall, this study confirms that the RE pyrolysis technique, being both time- and cost-effective, could become a standardized proxy for assessing SOC pools at landscape-scale although it requires further comparison with other methods for several soil and land-use types.

Nonetheless, our data suggest that measuring VOCs in the home environment may be a reasonable proxy for assessing children's exposure to many of these compounds.

Of the three larval stages Nauplius, Protozoea and Mysis in penaeid prawns, Protozoea stage larvae appear to be the most sensitive to changes in temperature and salinity, and thereby provide an effective proxy for assessing suitable culture conditions for all larval and post-larval life stages (Preston 1985; Zacharia and Kakati 2004).