Sentence examples for proxy knowledge from inspiring English sources

These suggested a "topography" or profile of alertness indicators and changes that were not evident through informal observations or indicated through historical proxy knowledge.

In the absence of a valid proxy, our knowledge of possible fluctuations in the Earth's O2 reserves is based on inferences made from isotope ratio measurements conducted on the element carbon contained in ancient limestones (calcium carbonate) and on the element sulfur contained in ancient evaporites (calcium sulfate).

Thus, patent citations can be used as a proxy for knowledge flows.

This paper uses this database to obtain forward citations as a proxy for knowledge flows from the inventor of the originating patent to the inventor of the citing patent.

Using a fixed effects Poisson regression, patent citations are used as a proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent citations is found to be positive and statistically significant.

Profession may be serving as a proxy for knowledge and awareness.

Education might stand as a proxy for knowledge about health related issues.

Education may be serve as a proxy for knowledge and awareness of PMS.

Profession may in fact be serving as a proxy for knowledge and awareness of PMS and indeed our analyses which included knowledge/awareness factors in the model resulted in non-significant associations between profession and participation.

In model 5, when all the factors are in the model, the variable "education" becomes negatively associated: those with higher educational levels are less likely to participate; in model 1, education may have been serving as a proxy for knowledge and awareness which might have cancelled out the apparent negative association with education itself.

In fact, if we interpret references as proxies for knowledge flows from cited to citing articles, then it would be reasonable to associate a higher value of similarity to a pair of articles that share a large number of references than to a pair sharing only few references, since the former pair is expected to draw on a more similar scientific background.