Sentence examples for an index of effort from inspiring English sources

Some researchers have tried to correct for this bias by using an index of effort of investigation [e.g., standardized by the number of publications on a particular plant species (Gibson et al. 2010)].

During analysis of stored tracings, tidal volumes (Vt), respiratory rates (RR), minute volumes (Vc) and the pleural pressure swings (Dpl) (ie an index of breathing effort) were computed.

ERD in the alpha band, coupled with ERS in the theta band have been interpreted as an index of mental effort (Nunez et al. 2001).

We calculated an index of feeding effort that allows accounting for the fact that the latrine area is smaller than the remaining home range area, and hence, innately can only contain a smaller number of potential food patches.

Likewise, we divided the proportion of foraging time outside the latrine area by the relative proportion of the number of food patches located outside the latrine area to calculate an index of feeding effort outside the latrine area.

We divided the proportion of foraging time within the latrine area by the relative proportion of the number of food patches located within the latrine area to calculate an index of feeding effort inside the latrine area.

A comparison of models of habitat suitability to an index of bobcat abundance (effort-corrected detections of bobcats by hunter) indicated that the hierarchical model (second-order multiplied by third-order of selection) provided a better description of statewide bobcat habitat than either single-scale analyses.

Thus, the prolonged ERD in the upper beta-band during the extraction of the feature ROUND as found in the present study can be interpreted most suitably as an index of the enhanced computational effort for the extraction of an acoustically complex phonological feature.

The effort to produce an index of all human proteins (the human protein index, or HPI) began over twenty years ago.

Google has made extra efforts in creating an index of a number of websites, which have been up to 25 billion websites.

In the first configuration, we modeled temporal variation in harvest rates by regressing on an index of natural food availability and an index of hunting effort (the number of estimated bear hunters; [20]); additional harvest vulnerability parameters were estimated in the first four years since these covariates were not available for 1980 1983.