Sentence examples for be a useful proxy from inspiring English sources

The work has shown that IRT images of an animal's eye temperature may be a useful proxy for core temperature and could be used to detect pyrexia as an indicator for selecting animals for closer examination.

However, we argue that the MES could be a useful proxy since we are ultimately interested in using the average sensitivity in relation to how long an animal actually lives, and not how long it can potentially live.

It also seems clear that private counselors can be a useful proxy, offering the kind of guidance adolescents are often reluctant to accept from their parents.

Carbon uptake peaked when the leaves were dark green, suggesting that "hue can be a useful proxy for photosynthesis," Ms. Mizunuma said.

While patents can be a useful proxy for innovation and technological change and diffusion, fully exploiting patent data for such economic analyses requires patents to be tied to measures of economic activity.

Traditional sampling approaches for natural enemies are few and most are inefficient, but recent studies suggest attraction of natural enemies to plant volatiles may be a useful proxy for direct sampling.

The auto industry has historically been a useful proxy for the overall economy.

Yields are a useful proxy for the riskiness of a bond and, therefore, the creditworthiness of a country's economy.

Carbon is a useful proxy because if you are saving carbon, you are also typically saving money and reducing waste.

But it is a useful proxy.

This technique, examined in detail by Jbara and Feitelson (2014) is a useful proxy for code complexity.