In tropical ecosystems, climate and human impact are generally considered the main determinants of savanna fire distribution, but their relative roles in controlling fire dynamics over the long-term are difficult to assess, due to scarcity of multi-proxy, long-term data.
After operating for five weeks on Congolese soil, Rwanda's 4,000 troops began withdrawing at the end of February.In return, the Rwandans decapitated their own proxy militia, long an enemy of the Congolese government, by arresting its lethal leader, Laurent Nkunda, now in custody in Rwanda.
Frequent use served as a convenient proxy for long term chronic use.
Hair is in fact considered a good matrix to be used as a biomarker of exposure to metals, and a good proxy of long term exposures [ 36, 37].
Thus, for settings similar to the Spanish Mediterranean region, in terms of patterns of spatial distribution of NO2 and low residential mobility (i.e., 80% of persons did not change address in the 10 years), the exposure at the address of longest residence may be a good proxy for long-term exposure.
This result is not valid for the TP set (Fig. 13c), for which (f_{0}) outperforms the other proxies as long as only one or two explanatory site proxies are considered.
42 In fact, long-term monitoring of cell attachment has been used as a proxy for long-term protein adsorption.
NDVI was also positively associated with population genetic diversity, a proxy for long-term, population-level effects of diet quality.
RBOCs, I think are nothing but bond proxies, while long distance carriers will continue to be under competitive pressure, with the exception of WorldCom which I actually like (See sidebar).
Heat resistance is a proxy for long-term aggregation propensity.
It has been shown to be a good proxy for long-run household wealth [ 31, 32].
