Sentence examples for mating index from inspiring English sources

To quantify the geometric modifications between the two wear surfaces, a new concept, comparative surface harmony (CSH), is developed and a mating index, comparative surface harmony index (CSHI), is formulated to characterize the surface interlocking and wear evolution of the shearing interfaces formed at contact areas between the shoes and floors.

Using pooled data, estimation of the assortative mating index (I) and mating propensity followed Bailey et al [20], but with AIC used to choose between models.

Mating index was determined by monitoring the presence of vaginal plugs the morning after mating.

The mating index was markedly but not significantly lower with the low-dose mixture compared with the control and the other exposure groups.

We used the following fertility end points: mating index (number of mated females ÷ number of females cohabited with males × 100), fertility index (number of pregnant females ÷ number of mated females × 100), litter size, mean weight per neonate, sex ratio at birth, and percentage of postimplantation loss (number of embryonic scars ÷ number of embryonic buttons and scars × 100).

A systematic search in the peer-reviewed literature [ 17, 22] yielded 263 plant species for which the following information were available: (i) genetic structure at nuclear markers, as measured by the FST index, (ii) inbreeding (or heterozygote deficit), as measured by the FIS index, (iii) mating system, as measured by the multilocus outcrossing rate tm (additional file 1).

To calculate the mating priority index we first ranked males according to the order by which they accessed each oestrus female (male priority rank).

An index of mating isolation (IMI) was calculated as the difference between the average preference (FIR) of females from a given population for their local males relative to foreign males of a given cross type (FIR own – FIR foreign/FIR own + FIR foreign) [6].

That is, low-predation females were less discriminating against high-predation males from the same river (index of mating isolation, IMI  = 0.233) than they were against high-predation males from a different river (IMI  = 0.413; Table 1; Fig. 1; Table S3).

First, we used the "lambda" index of mating skew (Kokko and Lindström 1997).

In this manner, we could assess directional accuracy by calculating the cosine of the angle θ of the polarity peak with respect to the gradient direction; cos is a typical index of mating projection directional accuracy [ 32] with cos = 1 indicating perfectly accurate polarization and cos = 0 indicating completely random polarization.