indirect indicator
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indirect
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.daɪˈrekt/us/ˌɪn.daɪˈrekt/
happening in addition to an intended result, often in a way that is complicated or ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/us/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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The latter could be concluded from the high prevalence of trichiuriasis and hookworm infections, which is anindirectindicatorof unhygienic human waste disposal.
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Their claims provide anindirectindicatorof the relationship between school drop-out rates and seasonal absenteeism and child farm labour.
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Because there was very little overlap in body weight between young and adults, weight served as anindirectindicatorof age class for both species.
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Therefore, milk somatic cell count is used commonly as anindirectindicatorof infection.
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Calculus (or calcified plaque) is an additionalindirectindicatorof diet.
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In the third patient, aged four years, the pleural rubs may have been anindirectindicatorof pulmonary thromboembolism and that this may have been the cause of death.
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Attention serves as anindirectindicatorof alertness and awakeness.
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D-dimer is a fibrin breakdown product found in blood clots and, hence, is anindirectindicatorof blood clots.
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It also serves as anindirectindicatorof the business climate in the region and a barometer of investor confidence in the region.
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People are 'labelled' as lonely because they say they are, or because they relate to the indirect indicators of loneliness.
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In addition to time preferences, we assessed the usefulness of other indirect indicators of mate choice.
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More generally, the results also highlight the need to tackle indirect indicators, particularly energy use and traffic volumes.
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A contracting core of management no longer in direct contact with the work being undertaken comes to rely on such indirect indicators of performance.
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The indirect indicators of material resources ' access to a car ' and ' home ownership ' were both two per cent higher than the national figures (56 % and 68 % respectively).
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This study provides the first direct evidence for the role of parasites in rodent mate selection and, further, addresses issues surrounding the use of indirect indicators of mate preference.
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