Sentence examples for as a preliminary indicator from inspiring English sources

The classification of landslide dams proposed in this study can be used as a preliminary indicator of dam stability.

These findings should be viewed as a preliminary indicator that SUV-based methods may be suitable for use in longitudinal studies in AD.

Thus, structure-based phylogeny can sometimes be used as a preliminary indicator of function of hypothetical proteins.

As a conclusion, PMI can be viewed as a preliminary indicator (a screener) of potential undertreatment that requires a further more specific evaluation.

This classification is linked to the typology of damming landslides and considered to be a preliminary indicator of dam stability.

More generally, these results emphasize that the taxonomic distribution of best database hits can be taken only as a rough and preliminary indicator of HGT.

Perhaps there are a few characteristics from these foundational perspectives that can be extracted and used as a preliminary set of indicators of the smartness of a learning environment (Spector, 2014, p. 7).

The viscera indices of thymus and spleen are recognized as the preliminary indicators to reflect the body' immune function [ 15].

Potential QIs rated with an overall median score of 8 or 9 without disagreement were considered to be face valid and reliable [ 16], and were accepted as preliminary indicators.

Our findings can therefore be seen as preliminary indicators of the construct validity of the "SmoCess-GP" instrument which has to be further evaluated using other forms and methods of validation.

We first performed a literature search to assess which output of registries are considered as appropriate for preventive policy and to develop a set of preliminary indicators and corresponding criteria.