Studies of cloned animals indicate that somatic cells reprogrammed to pluripotency variably display telomere elongation, a common indicator of cell "rejuvenation".
While sea ice is the most common indicator of climate change, hunters have noticed more subtle changes.
It robs people of their future, but more than that, Alzheimer's disease robs them of their past – short term memory loss is a common indicator, and as the disease progresses, it can eat into memories from earlier in life.
One common indicator the bulls seem to have forgotten, at least in America, is the price/earnings (p/e) ratio: the share price divided by earnings per share.
The World Health Organisation says around 20% of children in poor rural areas are "stunted", a common indicator of chronic malnutrition.
Yet according to Unicef, the incidence of stunting a common indicator of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala is twice what it is in Haiti, where income per head is only a quarter as high.
Being underweight is a common indicator of both short- and long-term malnutrition in children, and government workers can help prevent health problems from worsening by catching the signs of malnutrition early.
TDS is a common indicator of polluted waters (Tay 2007).
Mayflies, for example, are a common indicator of the ecological health of streams.
Environmental economics has developed methods to use a common indicator (money) for environmental policy decisions.
Another common indicator is critical slowing down, where the time taken to respond to perturbation increases near a transition (Dai et al.2012), often accompanied by logarithmic oscillations.
