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Normally, the relationship between inventory data and impact category indicators is linearly expressed by the characterization factors; then, synergic effects of the contaminants are neglected.
All impact category indicators related to the galvanized steel post resulted higher than those related to the timber ones, except for the eutrophication potential.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) approach was used to evaluate 6 LCEI category indicators: cumulative energy demand (CED), water use, solid waste, global warming potential (GWP), acidification potential, and eutrophication potential.
Modification of the effect of smoking was assessed by inclusion of interaction terms of smoking category indicators with indicator variables for age, sex, BMI, and alcohol drinking.
Models were adjusted to the overall weighted percentages of baseline category indicators, including age (65 74, 75 84, or ≥ 85 years), sex (women or men), and type of facility (public, subsidized, or private).
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Global warming potential of the category indicator was selected to assess the environmental impact of food waste disposal options.
Finally, socioeconomic deprivation was defined using a five category indicator that was derived from the English Indices of Deprivation 2004 ranking of the English super output areas.
In our study we have used the category indicator for the grade point average (GPA) achieved at the end of secondary school as a measure of prior performance.
We report p for trend, which was obtained through transforming the exposure categories to linear variables with values 0, 1 and 2 for each category, and including them in the same models instead of the category indicator variables.
These include replacing missing values with values imputed from the observed data (for example, the mean of the observed values), using a missing category indicator, 7 and replacing missing values with the last measured value (last value carried forward).
For the sake of parsimony and to facilitate causal inference methods, we dichotomize several multiple-category indicators.
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