Sentence examples for contrast index from inspiring English sources

We improved the Location-weighted landscape Contrast Index which was developed based on sediment source sink theory.

The total edge contrast index indicates the degree of landscape connectivity was 43.7%, meaning a medium contrast among the different class fragments.

In contrast, index values did not appear to be influenced by sepsis, either in AKI or non-AKI patients (Table 2).

With the purpose of providing scientific basis for environmental planning about non-point source pollution prevention and control, and improving the pollution regulating efficiency, this paper established the Grid Landscape Contrast Index based on Location-weighted Landscape Contrast Index according to the "source sink" theory.

We established successfully the Location-weighted landscape Contrast Index (LCI) with three factors of landscape pattern (land-use type, composition and configuration) in the view of the source sink structures of three organic carbon format loss processes.

Very recently, natively multifunctional NIR dyes that can preferentially accumulate in tumor cells without the need of chemical conjugation to tumor targeting ligands have been developed and these dyes have shown unique optical and pharmaceutical properties for biomedical imaging with superior signal-to-background contrast index.

In contrast, index-based ecological indicators are likely to be more suitable for the detection of broad-scale trends of change or major impacts (e.g. differences between upstream and downstream sides of weirs in data set 1) than for the detection of local scale stressors (Dahm et al. 2013) or habitat change (e.g. effects of restoration measures in data sets 2 and 3; Jähnig et al. 2011).

Close matching of profiles and contrast indices were obtained between simulated and corresponding acquired PET images.

A set of location-weighted landscape contrast indices was used to analyze the effect of land cover changes on soil erosion processes, as specified by the following indices: slope gradient, flow path length, relative altitude, and relative distance.

In contrast, indices of selective diversification on the two gene populations were similar, suggesting that differences in functional and immunological constraints upon them could not explain differences in gene diversity, and the frequency of recombination.

In contrast, indices derived from OGTT that incorporate measures of the volume of distribution of glucose (Avignon index) and BMI (Stumvoll index) provide no additional predictive value.