Experts now believe the discovery of water combined with hydrated salts, which prevents it from freezing, could be an indicator of environments potentially "habitable to certain kinds of bacteria".
As with many caves, the sedimentary record in the Haua Fteah is an extremely sensitive indicator of environments and processes in the wider landscape.
The Jamaica Estates no longer betray indicators of an environment that would ensure that a young man growing up here would betray the sense of entitlement, charm and self-satisfaction that are the hallmarks of The Donald.
This study then used geographic information systems to measure objective indicators of built environment variables within 500-meter buffer areas based on the home addresses of the respondents.
This is where herbarium data from habitat specialist species could help, given that plants act as indicators of the environment as a whole.
The reference group for preterm births was defined as all term births (born at ≥ 37 to 45 weeks. We used three indicators of physical environment for this study.
A key strength of this paper is the use of local indicators of social environment and a diverse sample of young people for multi-level analysis of relations among material deprivation, SES and coercive sex in urban slums in Malawi.
However, we observed a reduction in the effect of median household income on birth weight by 23percentt in the presence of indicators of physical environment (6.8 g; 95 percent CI: 4.3 g, 9.3).
While the effect for educational attainment, race and index of adequacy of prenatal care on birth weight did not change after controlling for indicators of physical environment (traffic and land use), the coefficient for median household income was reduced by 23percentt.
