Sentence examples for index of ability from inspiring English sources

Clearly, if income is a good index of ability to pay, the taxes for these individuals should not be the same, but how different should taxes be at different income levels?

As an objective index of ability to function after injury, the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) will be used.

This procedure has the effect of increasing larval crowding and uses a competitor stock as a yardstick against which to measure the competitive ability of other strains, giving a more sensitive index of competitive ability than pure cultures do [ 57, 58].

B. pictus is the most plastic, sheep-palatable and relatively drought-intolerant species and it is predicted to have higher aggressivity than P. speciosa, considering aggressivity as an index of competitive ability.

High level of expression of HLA-DR on monocytes is an index of the ability of the innate immune system for antigen-presentation. Suppression of the expression of HLA-DR on monocytes is characteristic of immunoparalysis that supervenes in moribund conditions like sepsis and that creates predisposition for super-infection by a variety of pathogens [5].

The size of the imitative compatibility effect is an inverse index of the ability to control the tendency to imitate.

A reduced index of work ability was calculated by summing the given score (range between 3 and 21).

Intellectual function was measured using the McCarthy Scale, which provides a general index of intellectual ability (General Cognitive Index, GCI); subtests measure both cognitive and motor function.

This is not just pedantry; in my view, reliability is, by definition, an index of the ability of an instrument to discriminate among individuals.

The Karnofsky scale is a well-validated assessment of an individual's health and well-being based on a performance index of physical ability.

The use of BCF is more significant compared to the metal amount accumulated in plants since it provides an index of the ability of the plants to accumulate metal element with respect to the element concentration in water [ 30].