For example, engineered cell types may sense a particular environment and express gene products that serve as an indicator of that environment or affect a change in that environment.
Regarding knowledge construction, it has been noted that effective learning occurs where learners are actively involved (Nurmela, Palonen, Lehtinen & Hakkarainen, 2003, cited in Zhu, 2012) and this may be an indicator of learning environment effectiveness.
As with many caves, the sedimentary record in the Haua Fteah is an extremely sensitive indicator of environments and processes in the wider landscape.
In reality the two topics are very close as a healthy environment ensures a longer life of our CH and, as a consequence, the latter can be considered an "indicator" of a safe environment taking into account that, in most cases, pollution plays a similar role on objects and humans.
This study was designed to determine the ratios of the isoprenoids and n-alkanes in an imported crude oil sample (Bassrah from Iraq) and four crude oil samples (Bodo, Bonny-Export, Escravos and Penningston) from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to ascertain the levels of maturity and as an indicator of the depositional environment of the crudes.
Parental BMI might be an indicator of the family environment, favouring or not obesity development, beyond of a genetic exposure.
We adopt the legal availability of opioid substitution treatment (OST) and needle and syringe distribution programmes (NSP) in a country as an indicator of enabling policy environment.
International agencies advocate institutional and national-level endorsement of harm reduction as a feature of national strategy.33 158 We adopt evidence of explicit supportive reference to harm reduction in national strategy as an indicator of enabling policy environment.
Cancer in natural animal populations has rarely been studied, with only a handful of studies from the conservation literature, where detecting cancer in these species may be an indicator of a disturbed environment (McAloose and Newton 2009).
The first dimension of the PCA was as an indicator dealing with quality in care provider-patient interaction screening, particularly staff attitudes and behaviours, the second dimension related to the quality of nursing care services, and the third dimension was an indicator of birth delivery environment.
