Sentence examples for crude index from inspiring English sources

My own crude index of the economic condition, however, is the brazen yellow M that now seems to illuminate every other corner of this winter-gray city.

Saudi Arabia's power to influence other producers was illustrated in 2009 when Saudi Aramco switched from using the West Texas Intermediate, W.T.I., price from Platts for oil sold to the United States to a new measure, the Argus Sour Crude Index, A.S.C.I., which was introduced that year by a rival pricing firm, Argus Media.

The discussion emphasizes that the necessarily sketchy nature of language use assures that it will be at best a crude index of thought.

Obviously, (|M_{i}^{w} (G |) is a relatively crude index: It represents the upper limit of the strength of structural change (with respect to sector i) in Model w over the period G. Nevertheless, it proves useful in Sect.

Nevertheless, it is a crude index that does not take into account the distribution of body fat.

The number of foot conditions was summed and categorised (none, one, two or more) to give a crude index of foot conditions.

The benchmark Brent crude oil index averaged $62 a barrel in the second quarter, down from $110 a year earlier.

In contrast, thigh and calf circumferences are crude indices of muscle mass and peripheral subcutaneous fat as compared with CT and magnetic resonance spectroscopy, because thigh circumference and calf circumference reflect body muscle mass and peripheral subcutaneous fat [ 11, 12], these measurements are noninvasive and easily applicable and they are more suitable as screening tools.

To provide crude indices of the likelihood that a candidate is a true positive, we list the number of siRNA screens in which it was identified and its rank in terms of literature references that support it as a modulator of autophagy.

Before and 5 (t5), 20 (t20), 35 (t35), and 50 (t50) minutes after the acute exercise bouts, the crude augmentation index (AIx) and the AIx at a set heart rate (AIx@75) were analysed by applanation tonometry.

As we did with siRNA data, the number of literature references that support each text-mined relationship was converted to a rank value to serve as a crude quantitative index for comparison across entities and their associations.