Sentence examples for database as a proxy from inspiring English sources

We used land-based climate variables obtained from the WorldClim database as a proxy for water climatic variables, as these models are generally considered to be correlated [48].

For three of the main continental groups (Africans, East Asians, Europeans) ancestry was first estimated using the whole HapMap SNP database as a proxy for global genome ancestry; these estimates were subsequently compared to those obtained from pre-designed AIM panels.

The use of dispensed drugs in a prescription database as a proxy for diabetes will obviously result in an underestimation of the total number of patients with diabetes in the population, as a considerable proportion of Type 2 diabetes patients are treated with lifestyle measures alone.

The quality of the water used for domestic needs data was extracted from the Estimates of Water Use in the U.S. [ 19] database as a proxy for domestic water quality from which two variables were included in the EQI: the percent of population on self-supplied water supplies and the percent of those on public water supplies which are on surface waters.

Information on medication from the Norwegian Prescription Database was used as a proxy for disease severity (Data S1).

The total initial yield of all three strategies across the six databases was used as a proxy for the population of qualitative studies in the area of support for breast-feeding.

It must also be noted that certain agents (namely ACE inhibitors and sartans) are prescribed to CKD patients even in the absence of hypertension to prevent further decline in eGFR (Ruggenenti et al. 2012), and this might influence results obtained by studies using the database of antihypertensive prescriptions as a proxy of a diagnosis of hypertension.

Because smoking status was unavailable for this database, COPD was selected as a proxy for cigarette smoking [ 31].

29 Hence, hospital admissions with identified influenza viruses (ICD-10 codes J10 and J09 for the H1N1/2009 pandemic strain) were extracted from CIHI's Discharge Abstract Database 30 and used as a proxy variable for the level of influenza activity.

This paper uses this database to obtain forward citations as a proxy for knowledge flows from the inventor of the originating patent to the inventor of the citing patent.

Given the high correlation observed between skilled birth attendance (SBA) and health sector employment, SBA as indicated in the related WHO database [ 6] is used as a proxy to estimate rural/urban discrepancies in health sector employment.