Sentence examples for more standard measures from inspiring English sources

Similarly, we were unable to support the physiological measurements taken with more standard measures of faecal corticosteroid or behavioural observations.

The amount of fat on your face, for instance, provides a stronger indication of your fitness than more standard measures, such as your body mass index.

This demonstrates that our analysis generally agreed with more standard measures of epistasis and, in some cases, improved significance by reformulation in terms of directional model parameters.

Reading fluency, as assessed using the Wheldall Assessment of Reading Passages (WARP) (Madelaine & Wheldall 2002), was used as a proxy for academic abilities because preliminary research (Tomlin 2014) suggested it correlated well with more standard measures of academic ability (Pearson's r ranging between 0.53 [numeracy] to 0.65 [reading comprehension]).

On the measure of earnings quality, Australia's lower levels of inequality compared with the US, Canada and the UK saw its quality of earnings much improved compared with the more standard measure of "average earnings": Where Australia comes to the fore is on the measure of "job strain".

For such reasons it was decided to compare the results with the calculation of call-kilometers (Fig. 8, right), a more standard measure of transport intensity in transport studies, which multiplies the travelled distance by the amount of flows (here vessel calls).

This measure is a more standard measure of plant fitness because fecundity of individual plants is determined by the number, but not the fraction, of intact seeds.

We also included a more standard measure of neighbourhood disadvantage as another covariate which was expressed as a material deprivation index Q, based on the 2006 Ontario Marginalization Index; 26 http://www.torontohealthprofiles.ca/onmarg.php.

The protein variance of the linearized model is given by: var ⁡ (P ) = P ^ n (1 + k p − γ m 2 (γ m + γ p ) ) Although the Poisson-like nature of the noise makes the fano coefficient a natural description of variability, a more standard measure is the dimensionless coefficient of variation equal to standard deviation divided by mean.

They show that "lenders that lobby more intensively on these specific issues have (i) more lax lending standards measured by loan-to-income ratio, (ii) greater tendency to securitize, and (iii) faster growing mortgage loan portfolios".

But while there are examples of eroding underwriting standards, more safety measures now exist than before the downturn.