Sentence examples for as a broader indicator from inspiring English sources

The increase in the muscle Grp75 level in patients showing occasional immunoreactivity for sarcolemmal MHC-I might be considered further as a broader indicator of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.

Some economists use the ADP survey as a broad indicator for their forecasts of the monthly government jobs numbers.

Still, the S.& P., seen as a broad indicator of the market as a whole, is down more than 9 percent for the year.

And those daily indicators of investor confidence — the markets — have painted a very pessimistic picture; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, seen as a broad indicator of the market, is down 8 percent for the year.

The composition of healthcare spending, whether it is public or private (in terms of GDP or total healthcare spending), is not mentioned as a "broad" indicator for a variety of reasons.

Although there is little published evidence in a Chinese context to support our interpretation, we suggest that the sex ratio can be treated as a broad indicator of community characteristics, and in China it may mean that counties with high resilience are the more developed, and the more economically developed counties have better work opportunities and equity education for females.

To do this, we used the number of ESTs/cDNAs as a broad indicator of expression level.

To reinforce these data, protein carbonyl levels were measured as a broad indicator of tissue oxidative stress.

[ 41] The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was used as a broad indicator of patient cognitive ability [ 41].

It is instead intended as a broad indicator of progress in these domains for groups of students.

Quality of education may be less important, however, as a broad indicator of SES (Galobardes et al, 2006), as we propose in this study.