A variety of indicators -- dissolved oxygen, turbidity, salinity, low nitrate levels -- all seem to favor survival, according to the students.
"From a variety of indicators, we see that attachment to China has strengthened," Mr. DeGolyer said.
The ONS will look at a variety of indicators to get a better picture of whether the recovery is being felt among UK households.
C1 Economy's Sweet Spot A wide variety of indicators suggests that the United States' economy is in a sweet spot, with soaring business investment, moderate inflation and rising employment.
According to a variety of indicators, the state's public school system ranks near the bottom in the country in math and science proficiency.
While there are gulfs between Africa and richer countries in a wide variety of indicators, the lack of manufacturing muscle is one of the largest.
Now that the jobs report is behind them, traders are moving on, juggling a variety of indicators to help them look for direction.
There are also a broad variety of indicators showing extreme dissatisfaction with the Congress, which could harm Democrats in the Senate but help them in the House.
In September, one of her senior aides showed me a stack of them that the Chancellor had just been examining; they showed the relative performance of different European economies across a variety of indicators.
For each strength, teachers suggested a variety of "indicators," much like the questions Duckworth asked people to respond to on her grit questionnaire, and she road-tested several dozen of them at Riverdale and KIPP.
At the same time, public health officials say, a variety of indicators used to monitor the spread of H.I.V. suggest that, after years when new infection rates among gay men here were stable or declined, they are now on the rise.
