Sentence examples for direct index from inspiring English sources

For this instrument, cold water was added to water in a vessel until dew formed on the vessel, and the temperature of the vessel, the dew point, provided a direct index of humidity.

The cortical thickness represents a direct index of atrophy caused by dementia and can be used in dementia diagnosis.

In contrast, WHO grade is a direct index of the malignancy grade, based on the consideration of various pathological factors, including the presence of necrosis, nuclear polymorphism, microvascular proliferation, mitotic activity, etc.

This assay measures cellular DNA content as a direct index of cell proliferation.

The number of beam breaks in this case can be correlated with the walking distance (cm) and provides a direct index of locomotion.

Palatability from Toyo taste meter served as an important and direct index in estimating eating quality of japonica rice instead of sensory test [3], [29].

Quantitative measures of the accumulation of scientific knowledge can be obtained using metrics such as the number of published papers in scientific journals, as well as more direct indices such as the number of planets or species discovered or the number of chemical substances created [12], [15] [17].

Changes in tumor volume and weight are the most direct indices for judging the efficacy of anti-tumor therapy.

Therefore, to address LCE queries with standard CGR indexes it suffices to search for shared suffixes in the reverse CRG indexes of S1 and S2, as that suffixes would represent prefixes in the direct indexes.

Because BMI is a surrogate index of body adiposity [ 9], direct indexes of adiposity such as skinfolds can be of value when studying the relationship between body fatness per se and disease [ 10, 11].

The measured values showed very good correlation with direct indices of microcirculation as determined by the well-established OPS technique and also with global measures of hypovolemia-caused oxygen debt such as ScvO2 and PcvaCO2.