With the United States and Saudi Arabia providing both public and secret security assistance there, and with Iran also said to be arming militant forces, Yemen has become the battlefield for a major proxy war by outside powers.
For example, one major proxy voting issue that has garnered much attention is the vote on executive compensation – often referred to as the "say on pay" vote.
The war was fought as much for oil and diamonds as for ideological reasons, but it also served as the last major proxy battle of the Cold War.
The S.E.C. noted that the proxy solicitor also bought sports tickets for at least two other I.S.S. account managers, one of whom disclosed how two big shareholders had acted in a major proxy contest.
We hypothesized that local traffic near the home and residence near a major roadway both proxies for long-term exposure to traffic pollutants increase the odds of AMI.
First, we created buffers of 50 m and 100 m from major roadways to proxy for traffic pollution exposure based on the DMTI spatial data coverage (DMTI Spatial, Markham, ON).
We also estimated the impact of alternative scenarios that assumed a 20% reduction in regional pollution in combination with a 3.6% reduction or 3.6% increase in the proportion of the total population living near major roads, a proxy for near-roadway exposure.
To estimate the prevalence of asthma attributable to near-roadway pollution exposure, we used a concentration response function (CRF) from the Children's Health Study (CHS), a large population-based cohort in Southern California, in which living near major roadways, a proxy for traffic-related pollution exposure, was associated with increased prevalence of asthma (McConnell et al. 2006).
We examined associations of residential distance to major roadways, as a proxy for traffic-related air pollution exposures, with sperm characteristics and male reproductive hormones.
We also assessed distance to major roadways as a proxy for overall traffic exposures.
