Sentence examples for positions as a proxy from inspiring English sources

For simplicity, we only used the average between the start and end positions as a proxy for the gene position.

But Mr. Copé has made it plain that he would step aside for Mr. Sarkozy — positioning himself as a proxy for a former president who many believe has no intention of fading away.

If the male mounted the female, the time in the mating position (used as a proxy of copulation duration) and the number of pedipalp insertions was recorded.

Childhood social position (with height as a proxy) was tested by Batty et al. (16) for its association with telomere length in middle-aged Scottish men at risk of heart disease, although no association was found.

By Samantha Henig February 3 , 2011[ image: /photos/590954dc1c7a8e33fb38b3a6] Given Egypt's position as an American proxy in the Middle East, leaders in the U.S. and Israel have had to tread lightly in their statements over the past week.

[ image: /photos/590954dc1c7a8e33fb38b3a6] Given Egypt's position as an American proxy in the Middle East, leaders in the U.S. and Israel have had to tread lightly in their statements over the past week.

So the New York Times is best positioned also for serving as a proxy for the knowledgeable and articulate individual that conventional ethnographic research designates as "key informant".

Since mobile devices (both cellular and WiFi) are associated with a wireless access point / base station, it is possible to use the position of the base station as a proxy for the location of the device.

It has been measured previously using the entropy of individual positions in multiple sequence alignment as a proxy [ 9- 11].

We assumed that chromosomal locations are mostly conserved across Triticeae [ 36- 40] and used the location of rice orthologs as a proxy of their chromosomal position.

To extend the analysis to all the positions in the proteins, we examined the relationship of % dfi and position-specific rate of evolutionary change obtained from a multispecies sequence analysis, with the position-specific evolutionary rates serving as a proxy for functional importance.