There are also studies that focus on the dispersion of ages at death as an additional measure of the age-at-death distribution, using indicators such as variance, Theil and Gini indices and e†, and compare their values across countries (Edwards and Tuljapurkar 2005; Tuljapurkar and Edwards 2011; Vaupel et al. 2011).
Fundamentally, we have to move toward metrics that measure the performance of food production and environmental systems in a holistic manner, using indicators such as nutrients per drop of water, hectare of land or kilowatt of energy.
In March this year Maplecroft, a risk analytics company, analysed the risk of sexual violence in conflict across 15 years using indicators such as the "systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war".
The country's economic strength had long been judged using indicators such as GDP, he said, in a speech in which he unveiled his plans.
In a more general view, there exist two broad classes of performance measures: the first is concerned with accounting and financial performance (using indicators such as profitability, profit per employees, return on investment, return on assets, share value, etc)., and the second with market performance, usually examining market share or sales growth.
In this method, items displayed for selection are scanned; the scanning may be visual using indicators such as lights, highlighting, and/or contrasting borders, or auditory using spoken prompts from a communication partner or device.
[Urban Designer, London] Participants said they used indicators, such as output delivery, economic development indices and growth surveys, to make the case for economic benefits that may have resulted from their work but there was no mention of using or commissioning more formal cost-benefit studies.
It did not test many other widely used indicators, such as the relationship between the current price of a share and its 200-day moving average.The results showed that the various technical patterns mostly occurred far more frequently than they would have done if they were truly random events.
The investment community use indicators such as this to direct financial flows.
It uses indicators, such as net present cost (NPC), renewable fraction, and the levelized cost of energy (COE).
The choice of percentage change in nutrient intake as indicator of risk of malnutrition was motivated by the lack of detailed individual-level data required to compute commonly used indicators such as z-scores and adult equivalence ratios.
