Glycemic Index measures how quickly carbohydrates cause the blood serum sugar levels to rise.

Like all measures of birth control effectiveness, the Pearl Index is a calculation based on the observations of a given sample population.

On comprehensive measures such as the UN Human Development Index the United States is always in the top twenty, currently ranking 4th.

Perhaps the most commonly used international measure of development is the Human Development Index ( HDI ), which combines measures of life expectancy, education, and standard of living, in an attempt to quantify the options available to individuals within a given society.

Although not as complex as other measures, and now essentially replaced by the Human Development Index, the PQLI is notable for Morris's attempt to show a " less fatalistic pessimistic picture " by focussing on three areas where global quality of life was generally improving at the time, and ignoring Gross National Product and other possible indicators that were not improving.

The Happy Planet Index, introduced in 2006, is unique among quality of life measures in that, in addition to standard determinants of well-being, it uses each country's ecological footprint as an indicator.

An increasing acceptance of the importance of central obesity within the medical profession as an indicator of health risk has led to new developments in obesity diagnosis such as the Body Volume Index, which measures central obesity by measuring a person's body shape and their weight distribution.

Another well-established index that measures consumer confidence is the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, run by University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

World map of the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, which measures " the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians ".

The Commitment to Development Index, published by the Center for Global Development, measures the effect that subsidies and trade barriers actually have on the undeveloped world.

Other measures that take into account the importance of female participation and equality include: the Gender Parity Index and the Gender-related Development Index ( GDI ),

Richard M. Smith became Chairman in 1998, the year that the magazine inaugurated its " Best High Schools in America " list, a ranking of public secondary schools based on the Challenge Index, which measures the ratio of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exams taken by students to the number of graduating students that year, regardless of the scores earned by students or the difficulty in graduating.

Internationally, and in partnership with the Wall Street Journal, Heritage publishes the annual Index of Economic Freedom, which measures a country's freedom in terms of property rights and freedom from government regulation.

As presented in his paper Index Theorems on Open Spaces the index of the Dirac operator is a topological invariant which measures the winding of the Higgs field on a sphere at infinity.

The Commitment to Development Index measures the effect that rich country trade policies actually have on the developing world.

For instance, the Gallagher Index measures the disproportionality of an election.

Baltic Dry Index measures the cost for shipping goods such as iron ore and grains.

A Producer Price Index ( PPI ) measures average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output.

On the state ’ s latest Academic Performance Index, which measures overall achievement on a scale of 200 to 1, 000, IUSD posted a districtwide score of 921, marking a five-point increase over the previous year.

The Global Green Economy Index, published annually by consultancy Dual Citizen Inc., measures and ranks the perception and performance of 27 national green economies.

While genetic analysis of the H5N1 virus shows that influenza pandemics from its genetic offspring can easily be far more lethal than the Spanish flu pandemic, planning for a future influenza pandemic is based on what can be done and there is no higher Pandemic Severity Index level than a Category 5 pandemic which, roughly speaking, is any pandemic as bad as the Spanish flu or worse ; and for which all intervention measures are to be used.

The chapter on " New Indicators " describes attempts to replace GNP with broader measures such as the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare ( ISEW ) that attempt to account for full environmental costs.

CRI's ability to predict color appearance has been criticized in favor of measures based on color appearance models, such as CIECAM02 and, for daylight simulators, the CIE Metamerism Index.

The historical context in which the Index appeared involved the early restrictions on printing in Europe.

The factors used to calculate the Index score are corruption in government, barriers to international trade, income tax and corporate tax rates, government expenditures, rule of law and the ability to enforce contracts, regulatory burdens, banking restrictions, labor regulations, and black market activities.

* U. S. Open-no age or gender restrictions, Handicap Index requirement of 1. 4 or less.

* U. S. Women's Open-females, no age restrictions, Handicap Index requirement of 4. 4 or less.

The first stage of operation has centered on the literature imaging of critical or summarizing tabulations such as the Barker Index.

The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.

* Lituanus Linguistics Index ( 1955 – 2004 ) provides a number of articles on modern and archaic Baltic languages

For example, the BBC website, which had previously been called BBC Online, took on the BBCi brand from 2001, displaying an i-bar across the top of every page, offering a category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index, and a search.

Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.

In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it .< ref > Blackwell ( 1991, p. 126 ).

According to the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom in 2012, Chile has the strongest private property rights in Latin America, scoring 90 on a scale of 100.

* Apologetics Index on Christian Science

In 2011, the city was ranked 9th of major world cities on the Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle-Friendly Cities.

* Apologetics Index Collection of research resources on religious cults, sects, world religions, doctrines, and related issues.

* Humanities Index has notes on epic poetry.

All of his works were placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by Pope Paul IV, and some of his works continued to be banned or viewed with caution in the later Index of Pope Pius IV.

In 1986 they introduced the Index of Economic Freedom, which is based on some fifty variables.

Paul's successor Paul IV, once a member on the commission, in 1539 put it on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

All Latin American and Caribbean countries except Cuba and Venezuela enjoyed much more economic freedom than Haiti on the Index of Economic Freedom of 2006.

The Copenhagen Stroke Study found that patients that presented with ipsilateral pushing used 3. 6 weeks more to reach the same functional outcome level on the Barthel Index, than did patients without ipsilateral pushing.

In 1948 the Roman Catholic Church placed Sartre's oeuvre on the Index of prohibited books.

Despite political corruption and regional instability, Kyrgyzstan is ranked 44th on the Ease of doing Business Index.

* Biography of Saint Louis on the Patron Saints Index

For economic and social innovation, the city was ranked 15th globally out of 289 cities in 2010, and 5th in Germany by the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Index based on analysis of 162 indicators.

* Millon Index of Personality Styles, a psychological assessment tool providing information on psychopathology

The corruption watchdog organization Transparency International in its 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index released on 26 September 2007 ranked Burma the most corrupt country in the world, tied with Somalia.