The recommendation follows the endorsement of another proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis.
We used the publication date of the reporting guideline as a proxy if the actual date of endorsement was not known.
We felt that a provider's overall level of secure messaging may serve as a proxy for his or her overall use and endorsement of the SMR; such an endorsement would encourage patient use.
More broadly, the endorsement may serve as a proxy for various sorts of intangible qualities that may help a candidate to perform strongly in New Hampshire but that are not necessarily reflected in the early polls of the state.
Sam Wyly, the Texas billionaire waging a proxy fight for control of Computer Associates International Inc., won a second endorsement after scaling back his plans to oust the software maker's board.
But more than 20,000 people signed a petition to Cardinal Dolan, objecting to Father Farren's endorsement-by-proxy. Though it was the voice of one priest, and not the institutional church, it opened a window onto a debate among Catholics about how they and the church engage with civil society.
Thus, although not ideal, a journal's statement about endorsement of a guideline is the best available proxy indicator of a journal's policy and perhaps authors' behavior around use of reporting guidelines.
The decision by the large institutional investor, which finances Canada's national pension program, follows endorsements of Mr. Ackman's slate from three proxy advisory firms, including Institutional Shareholder Services.
With the decisive shareholder endorsement, Mr. Dimon has bolstered his influence at the helm of JPMorgan, while the proxy advisory firms that advise investors on corporate governance issues saw their influence wilt.
Still, Noel said, the kind of activists HuffPost surveyed may provide a relatively good proxy for the kind of decision-makers he's studied -- which is good, because endorsements at the top have been scarce so far.
