Sentence examples for attractiveness index from inspiring English sources
And when the researchers combined all of the data to provide a "composite attractiveness index," they found that male chimps were twice as attracted to 45-year-old females as they were to 15-year-old females.
And the attractiveness of the UK's renewable energy sector to inward investors was downgraded in the respected Ernst and Young country attractiveness index.
"She scored 8.45 (out of 10) in our facial attractiveness index and is among the top 5 per cent in our sample," they told business television channel CNBC.
Meanwhile EY, the business consultancy, said its latest Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), which ranks the investment potential of 40 countries' renewables markets, puts the UK in sixth place behind the US, China, Germany, Japan and Canada.
Energy minister Malcolm Wicks (Letters, August 8) takes comfort from the UK moving up an Ernst & Young "renewable-energy attractiveness index", but ignores the evidence that Germany is investing more, has a bigger renewables industry and more installed renewable capacity.
EY's Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index scores 40 countries for their attractiveness to renewable investors, based on an analysis of a wide-ranging factors from government policy, specific projects and climate change targets, energy demand and costs to wider economic factors such as growth and sovereign credit risk.
Alternatively, shifting gaze could reflect men's vigilance, which may vary with the presence of a partner and his attractiveness, and thus index intrasexual competition.
The average number of farmers per locality was designated as the index of attractiveness and was correlated with six broad categories of factors identified by farmers as influential in urban agricultural site selection.
Second, case studies from Ethiopia showed the attractiveness of linking weather index insurance with productive safety net programs (food-for-work or cash-for-work).
The norms of sexual attractiveness for women are an index of their vulnerability.
