We intend to demonstrate that drought can be better characterized by augmenting climate metrics with an index of water supply, which is a combination of runoff and recharge, often an acute impact, and an index of landscape stress, which is more of an extended and cumulative condition.
Capillary density (number of capillaries/muscle CSA) was not employed as a structural index of blood/oxygen supply to muscle in this study, because capillary density indices may inappropriately indicate increased vascularity in disused skeletal muscle [ 25].
Other indices of impact: Supply of psychotropic medications in the clinics as well as in the adjoining private pharmacies improved substantially, driven by increased demand.
Sliding charter rates are more a reflection of the eternal optimism of shipowners than a calamitous foundering of the world economy.Episodes of short-term volatility are one way that the touchiness of the index to the vagaries of supply and demand manifests itself.
Rurality also nominally drove the development of Scotland's "excess costs of supply" index.
We conclude that for the eight index drugs the levels of supply are unacceptable.
We derive four supply chain indices – evenness, resilience, continuity of supply and climate resilience – to estimate the performance of simple and complex supply chains in each industry.
Dimensionless parameters in the form of supply heat index (SHI), heat load of server racks and the volume flow rate from perforated tile were carried out by considering the rack inlet temperature compared with the standard air temperature of ASHRAE.
However, the index reflects the relative costs of supply across the country, irrespective of geographic classification, allowing for differential costs of providing services in either rural or urban areas [ 31].
The main target of this design is to minimize the annualized cost of the hybrid system, environmental cost related to pollutant gas emissions avoided due to the use of the hybrid generation system, and index of loss of power supply probability.
