Traffic indicators for NO 2. To validate raster-based traffic indicators, we considered a range of base cell sizes from 10 to 50 meters square, bearing little difference on traffic indicator values compared to our default 25 meter cell size.
Based on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Prevention Quality Indicators, we considered that hospitalizations associated with the following four conditions were preventable: uncontrolled diabetes, short-term complications, long-term complications, and lower-extremity amputations.
(1) For the exposure indicator: we consider intensity as an appropriate indicator for the seismic disaster.
As an indicator, we consider the CQI, which is a measurement of the communication quality of wireless channels.
Statistics Sweden provided parish-level data from year 2010 on the socio-economic indicator we considered, viz. the proportion of families with low household purchasing power (according to Swedish standard; ≤19,500 USD household purchasing power) among all residing families with at least one child (≤19 years old; family with the same residence address).
It is a less than heartening situation when home characteristics explain just over one-fifth of the variation in an outcome or quality indicator, and we consider that indicator a "valid" measure of homes' performance.
However, in the indicators that we consider there is no such equivalence.12 These are the reasons why we make use of Kendall's τ in the following.
To assess the academic performances and the utilization of the resources, two important issues need to be addressed, i.e., a capable methodology and a set of good performance indicators as we consider in this paper.
In order to assess the academic performances and the utilization of the resources, it appears that two important issues need to be addressed, i.e., a capable methodology and a set of good performance indicators as we consider in the following.
