The aim is to assess the difference between the methods and calculate the performance among main indicators, considering the same decision variables and constraints.
The results showed that indicators considered for geology criterion are main factors affecting desertification, so that about 88% areas are prone-area to desertification.
This highlights the challenges faced in the development of indicators considering the main dimensions of sustainability indicators, i.e. unit of measurement, type of measurement, tracking period and measurement boundary (Krajnc and Glavič 2003).
The four main indicators the panel considers are employment; personal income, minus government transfer payments like welfare; industrial production; and manufacturing and trade sales.
Weight loss and low body mass index (BMI) have been considered the main indicators, but criteria that identify patients with both adverse function and prognosis are often integrated in the definitions (Fearon et al, 2006; Evans et al, 2008; Bozzetti and Mariani, 2009).
Having portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) is considered one of the main indicators for poor prognosis in liver cancer due to higher likelihood of intrahepatic and distant metastasis [ 1].
In accordance with many other publications, we consider the biomass or LA profiles as main indicators for vertical structure (e.g. Fliervoet and Werger 1984, 1985; Werger et al. 1986; Mitchley and Willems 1995).
The symptom and diagnostic variables considered in this paper include variables that are previously identified as main indicators of encephalitis as well as those with a potential to be associated with the disease.
The main indicators used for this are the RMSEA (Steiger's Root Mean Square Error of Approximation), the fit being considered good if <0.1 and very good if <0.05, the NFI (Bentler and Bonnet's Normed Fit Index), considered as good if >0.95, and the GFI (Goodness of Fit Index), considered as good if >0.85 [ 33, 34].
Considering our field of interest, the walking distance was of a special concern, being one of the main indicators of physical health of diabetic patients [ 26, 27].
