When it comes to the operationalization of indicators, there is a wide range between indistinctly defined indicators and fully quantified indicators, a fact that is frequently left unaddressed in the research literature.
Jobs are a lagging indicator — a fact that means home-building employment may be about to rise at a good clip.
A number of indicators, in fact, verify if the flow of information passes unhindered through these components, if is facilitated by some areas and inhibited by others, if the network is organized in sub-structures that communicate between them or that tend to isolate themselves and so on.
"In an age when hip-hop music is so frowned upon, an event like this one was just a little indicator that, in fact, it deserves profound respect and is just as valid as any other art form.
His commentary matters, and it's an indicator of the fact that the vast majority of those in the public and those in power are rejecting Cheney and the warped national security impulses he embraced.
Public acknowledgement of atheism by a senior politician who might soon lead his country is just one indicator of the fact that the tide is actually running in the opposite direction: and that is a welcome and hopeful sign.
We also include interactions between lagged overeducation status and an indicator for the fact that the overeducation spell is ongoing.
The information should not be used as an evidence but as indicator of a fact that requires further investigation.
When a space gets its own Yelp (and CourseTalk already has some competition from Knollop here), it's generally an indicator of the fact that a bunch of content or businesses came online at once (or at least it seems that way when viewed from five miles up) and end users have no way to make sense of that noise.
Considering that human rights abuses are often presented as encounters between two armed groups in the context of counter-insurgency operations, a careful analysis of gunshot injury patterns could serve as an indicator that in fact murder, rather than combat, took place and the intention was to kill rather than to maim or render people unfit for battle.
