"The balance of risk to global growth is skewed to the upside, particularly given the broad based alignment of macroeconomic indicators in the major developed economies," BHP said in a statement.
The concept of carrying capacity was used for a small number of indicators in most major ecosystems, except for mires and wetland, and mainly concerned well-studied indicators such as moose and salmon [41], [42].
We classified the selected indicators in three major domains of deprivation: individual-level capabilities, household-level material well-being and individual-level psychosocial factors.
Table 1 shows clearly that the indicator set was extensive and covered many variables in the ecosystems; all variables were represented by at least one indicator in each major ecosystem.
While reducing income inequality in the United States might reduce overall GDP growth, it could find justification from contemporary liberal conceptions of justice if it resulted in sustainable improvements in major indicators of well-being, such as the health, educational, and employment prospects of the less-advantaged part of the population.
Childhood trauma is a recognised indicator of poor prognosis in major depressive disorder (Douglas and Porter, 2012; Nanni et al., 2012) but, in bipolar disorder, whilst the impact of stressors in adulthood on the course of illness has been investigated (Cohen et al., 2004; Paykel, 2003), the impact of early trauma has been relatively neglected.
Bernanke has repeatedly said in press conferences that he believes this stimulus – known as quantitative easing – is working, but also implied that is hard to measure whether the Fed's stimulus moves are making enough of a difference in major economic indicators.
One approach to understanding the changes that have taken place in African population over the past 60 years is to consider the differences in major demographic indicators between then and now, using the latest and best available estimates from the United Nations' online databases.
Accuracy and efficiency are two major indicators in evaluating the performance of flood inundation models.
In addition, supporters at the rally said that having so much of the party leadership behind him could bring Mr. Ferrer only so far, and that he now had to work hard to change the perceived dynamic of the race: that with all major indicators in the city seemingly pointing upward, and armed as he is with a huge campaign kitty, Mr. Bloomberg is going to be next to impossible to beat.
