Given the distribution of working hours across gender in the Netherlands, i.e. male employees mostly working full-time and female employees mostly working part-time, one could interpret gender as a proxy for part-time/full-time employment, however.
As part of the quality control measures, two respondents within each PSU were to be randomly selected for re-test and one for proxy validation – as part of the quality control process.
In effect, this data set generates a single composite image of the country for each year, and can be used as a proxy for economic activity across different parts of North Korea.
When rate variation across a phylogeny is extreme (that is, when the molecular clock is seriously violated), the rates calculated on one part of the phylogeny will serve as a poor proxy for estimating divergence times in other parts of the tree.
These were not legally designated health care proxies, for the most part, because most patients had no advance directive and hadn't chosen a decision maker.
So it comes as no surprise that Catatumbo's campesinos have made an enemy in the government as a result, which insists that the protests have been infiltrated by the FARC, a left-wing peasant insurgency that has been fighting the Colombian government and its right-wing paramilitary proxies for the better part of 50 years.
Today, in part as a proxy for the forbidden Dalai, many temples, shops and homes in Tibet display pictures of the 10th Panchen Lama, who occupied the second highest position in Tibetan Buddhism.
He's a terrorist himself!" Robert A. Slayton, author of the Smith biography "Empire Statesman," suggested in a recent interview that the religious bias against Smith and Mr. Obama served in part as a proxy for nativist resistance to an increasingly diverse nation.
Antitrust authorities and policy-makers usually treat price as a proxy for quality and consumer welfare, in part because health care quality is difficult to observe.
A perfect proxy for this variant was genotyped as part of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium WTCCCC) study (rs9653442) and also showed evidence for association in that cohort of 1860 RA cases and 2920 controls (trend P = 4.8 × 10−4) (10−4
The type of evidence used to support the assignment of an annotation is often used as a proxy for judging its quality, in large part owing to the extensive use of the evidence ontology (ECO) (4).
