Recovery of bacteria is reported as a Colonization Index calculated as Col. Index = CFUrecovered/CFUinoculated.
The "median consumer-price index", calculated by the Cleveland Fed, is up 3%.
The consumer confidence index calculated by the Conference Board is now at 46, an extraordinarily low level.
The most frequently used measure is body mass index, calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared.
As a result, the index, calculated by subtracting negative responses from positive ones, fell to minus 30.7.
One key measure of volatility, an index calculated by the Chicago Board Options Exchange and known as the VIX (its ticker symbol), has dropped sharply in recent weeks as it approaches its usual mid-summer lows.
The demand for ethanol is already pushing up prices, and explains, in part, the 40percentt rise last year in the food price index calculated by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organizationn.
The consumer confidence index, calculated from a written questionnaire sent to 5,000 households each month, fell in February to 107, still higher than it was for the first half of the 1990's boom, according to the Conference Board.
This heterogeneity was assessed using a texture index calculated from the height-transition co-occurrence matrix.
The angularity index calculated using the conventional and modified Sobel-Feldman operations were compared.
The fragility index, calculated from the heating rate dependence of Tg, yields a value of 65.
