As such, cost recovery can be used as a proxy indicator of sustainability.
Mr. Kudrin's standing is being closely watched as a proxy indicator for Russia's approach to the financial crisis.
Until recently, the most notorious of their studies used the passage of legislation that allowed private citizens to carry concealed firearms as a proxy indicator of gun ownership.
These results caution against using C4 plant abundance as a proxy indicator of either climate or pCO2 without an adequate understanding of key controlling factors.
In this way, radiocarbon dates themselves are being used as a proxy indicator of cultural activity and are being used to challenge the historiography of Angkor's famous demise.
Phalangeal curvature has frequently been used as a proxy indicator of fossil hominoid and hominin positional behavior and locomotor adaptations, both independently and within the context of broader discussions of the postcranium as a whole.
However, the relative role of these factors in driving variation in C3 and C4 grass abundances in the paleorecord is uncertain, and C4 abundance is often interpreted narrowly as a proxy indicator of aridity or pCO2.
The results further validated the use of the EI (energy index) in its original form as a proxy indicator of the process energy consumption for decision making in early stages of process design.
Timely primary care prevents unplanned admissions into hospital and short stays admissions can be regarded as a proxy indicator of conditions that could be dealt with in primary care.
Thus, in this paper seasonal food insecurity is regarded as a proxy indicator of green famine.
It is a composite index composed of key asset ownership or income and expenditure; often used as a proxy indicator of level of household wealth [15-19] [15-19]
