Early-stage funding activity tends to be an indicator of areas with somewhat low adoption rates today that are poised to take off dramatically.
So much so that I've heard Foxtons actually use the presence of a trendy coffee shop as an indicator of areas of growth to target.
Consequently, it may be used as a natural indicator of areas which are hazardous and to avoid travelling through.
Most important, sympatric occurrence of restricted-range species is a valuable indicator of areas of endemism, revealing localized biotas and subjacent evolutionary patterns and biogeographic speciation processes [11], [40], [41].
If you're new to shaving the block can be a good indicator of areas where you might want to improve your shaving technique.
Although the central areas of Garden City and Zhujiajiao Town have different geographical and historical backgrounds, the measured land-use structures, including indicators of area proportion and area per capita, exhibits similarities on land-use types of residential, transportation, and ecological conservation, which offer a considerable reference for land-use structure of a livable urban area.
Perhaps, however, compositional indicators of area deprivation hide women's real susceptibility to area effects.
Unlike the previous study of Massachusetts that found that certain indicators of area deprivation such as unemployment or low education level were related to elevated work injury rates [ 36], we found other area indicators to be salient.
We suggest using indicators such as 'proportion of women' and, as a separate measure, 'proportion of men' with a particular SES characteristic such as 'living below the poverty line', and contextual indicators of area SES rather than sex-aggregated proportions.
Although infrequently used, there are a number of contextual, rather than compositional indicators of area SES and gender equality that lack the intrinsic bias of aggregated individual characteristics (57).
