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This drop in income, measured in proportion of the initial total income, may serve as a valuable index of inequality.

For example, Turner (1999), using the similar term "insurance value" rather than "option value", observes that "the number of species … serves as a valuable index of ecosystem reliability.

These results demonstrated that the non-invasive monitoring of MC-I activity is a useful and valuable index with higher sensitivity for hepatic and renal impairments.

The eco-physiological profiles coupling biochemical and molecular parameters could be used as a valuable index for monitoring the success of a restoration scheme, estimating the quality of both contaminated and restored soils.

More generally, this aspect makes the N2pc a valuable index to test models of vision because it can isolate effects that may not be visible from chronometric data, which reflect the overall product of several and sometimes opposing effects ensuing at different stages of processing.

Ultrastructural changes in cellular organelles during storage and seed germination rates are valuable indices of damage that occurs during seed ageing.

For instance, the spectral decomposition of HRV signals has been proved to provide valuable indices: the high frequency (HF) power reflects vagal and respiratory mediated changes in heart rate, whereas low frequency (LF) power is mostly a marker of sympathetic modulation [ 13].

The Economist has collated recognised indices for each of these assets to create a "valuables index".

Collectibles have outperformed stocks over the past decade, with some, like rare coins, doing a lot better, according to The Economist's valuables index.

Both data might be clinically valuable: HOMA index on day 2 for the in-hospital course, HOMA index on day 7 for the long-term processes such as formation of the final infarct size.