N-mixture models, paired with careful consideration of study design alternatives, can produce robust estimates of abundance and obviate the traditional reliance on indices of relative abundance for many rare and sensitive taxa.
In addition to the incorporation of multiple user preferences in route selection, the planner is unique amongst cycling route planners in its use of topology to minimize data storage redundancy, its reliance on node/vertex index tables to increase efficiency of the route selection process, and the use of web services and asynchronous technologies for quick data delivery.
As for reading skill per se (reflected by CTL index), reliance on the word pathway (MOG→LP) measured during word reading positively correlated (r = 0.46, uncorrected p = 0.04) with reading skill (CTL index) (Figure 2, full blue arrows).
The absence of direct measurement data on acidic aerosol in these studies, and their reliance on surrogate indices such as SO2 and SO4 2-), precludes firm conclusions about exposure-response relationships.
One common problem has been the reliance on body-mass index (BMI) as indicator of body fatness, which in young people may reflect maturational status as well as fatness [ 16, 17].
Originally it was regarded as a measure of movements in the general price level, but as other indexes became available, such as the consumer price index, less reliance was placed on the wholesale price index for this purpose.
As Simpson (2006) notes, fractionalization may actually not be measuring what we want it to, so that the current reliance on the fractionalization index which is actually quite crude as a measure may be faulty.
Thus, HIA's predictive power is superior to the traditional reliance on simple conservation indexes.
There should not be automatic reliance on the reliability indices.
