It can inform modern human medicine, because studying the fragmentary, squashed and hard-to-identify fossilised remains of distant relatives that lived millions of years ago in a different climate are definitely the most reliable proxy for understanding human health.
In order to evaluate the seaport competitiveness, efficiency is used as a proxy for understanding output [12, 14, 35, 37].
This review focuses on dynamics of the solar chromosphere, which serves as a good proxy for understanding processes in stellar chromospheres as well.
As such, the amount of benefits can serve as a proxy to understanding the amount of wage loss, which in turn signals productivity loss resulting from a specific injury or illness.
While we acknowledge the limitations of the categories and data sources used by the Fund for Peace, for the purposes of this map political instability is used as a proxy for understanding a state's ability to effectively manage the extraction, production, consumption, and export of its food, water, energy, and mineral resources.
M. smegmatis is a convenient proxy for understanding functional consequences of mutations in Mtb because of its higher growth rate and its noninfectious nature.
Confidence can serve as a useful proxy for understanding patient attitudes and behaviours and has implications distinct from other more commonly discussed notions such as satisfaction, trust and self-efficacy.
The 'Prey Size' character serves as a proxy for understanding the evolution of the unique macrostomatan condition – that is, a kinetic system enabling them to ingest intact prey items that are much larger than the head – within snakes (a capacity that evolved twice if tropidophiids are basal alethinophidians as genomic data suggest).
These studies provide the strongest constraints for testing the efficiency of environmental magnetic proxies for understanding dynamic transportation processes from the source regions to the depositional sink.
"They make good proxies for understanding" what the advantages of having human grandmothers might be, says Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist at the National Marine Fisheries Service in San Diego, California, who was not involved with the study.
