Unlike Clavijo et al. (2012), Bogliaccini (2013) uses as the key independent variable the index of commercial openness, taken from a series of indicators created by ECLAC in 1999 and updated by Eduardo Lora in 2012.
On the other hand, the Landscape Functional Analysis (LFA) presents a method to assess the rangeland "health" based on structural vegetation and soil indicators, creating indexes to evaluate the ecosystem functional integrity.
The generation and ongoing engineering of genetically encoded calcium indicators creates an opportunity to repeatedly record activity from the same individual neurons in vivo over weeks, months and potentially the entire lifetime of a model organism.
jA composite index of socioeconomic indicators created from the percent of the population with a college-level education, percent of white-collar workers, the unemployment rate, and per capita income.
Furthermore, facilities and districts are required to report on standardized national indicators to the national level and their performance is evaluated by measuring progress on these indicators, creating a disincentive for facilities to plan and budget for health priorities not represented by the indicators.
Individual visit level cord assessment data will be collapsed over the neonatal period with binary indicators created for each of the sign-based algorithms to estimate cumulative incidence of cord infection and risk of omphalitis relative to the comparison dry cord group.
While most market signals were positive, one money-market indicator created a nagging doubt about whether the stress tests would achieve their ultimate goal of loosening up the amount of credit available to European business and consumers.
It is a new indicator created by the author to present travelers' feelings of different traffic congestion situations by considering both frequency of congestion happening and travelers' feelings about the congestion.
The IEN (acronym for national economic indicator), an asset-based indicator created through principal components analysis, was calculated from 12 asset variables (such as TV, radio, car) and schooling of the household head [ 13].
The first is an urbanization indicator created by the U.S. census, which measures the percent of a tract living in an urban center (this is the only demographic variable that is does not vary over time; the value for the year 2000 is used for each case).
