Sentences with phrase «established threshold of»

«This creates a risk that if you don't look for cardiac events, you might miss them,» he said, adding that this is the first large international study to establish thresholds of high - sensitivity troponin T that are independently associated with death within 30 days after non-cardiac surgery.

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Or establish a set of rules for when it's safe to purchase a new investment, such as a particular stock price - to - earnings threshold.

«That's a threshold legal issue, establishing that the purpose of the payment was to influence the election,» he said.

When established in 1965, the thresholds were set at three times the cost of a minimally adequate diet and indexed annually for changes in the price of food.

In addition, pre-shipment distribution tests aid in optimizing packaging by establishing a means of evaluating multiple designs and materials to a standardized performance threshold.

The utility of imposing differential standards, as a matter of legislative policy, is not at all clear, given that contravention will always be established on the lowest threshold being satisfied.

Supports NFF submission and identifies 10 priority areas: Unconscionable conduct, Misuse of market power (effects test), Unfair contract terms (extension to small business), Collective bargaining (inc raising threshold for primary production bargaining), Codes of conduct, Statutory duty of good faith, Powers of the ACCC (price monitoring, divestiture powers), Access, Protection from agri - terrorism, Establishing a Perishable Goods Commissioner

GIG is finalizing a new study that establishes the number of gluten - containing grains that are allowed in non-gluten grains in order to meet the 10 ppm gluten threshold of GIG's gluten - free certification program, the Gluten - Free Certification Organization (GFCO).

The analysis of the average experience capital of big - 5 league players is also useful in establishing thresholds above which players from outside these championships have a concrete possibility of successfully joining the five major European competitions in the near future.

Although many researchers have analyzed impact counts and characteristics across a variety of settings in the hopes of establishing force «thresholds» for injury, no such threshold has been discovered.

The second stage of transition or threshold marks the time in between states, involving something of a trial, a time of becoming — no longer connected to the old, but not yet established in the new.

Russia and the Syrian regime have made it impossible for the full threshold of evidence to be established or for the orthodox assessment of international law to be satisfied.

«In Africa, we are on the threshold of finalising negotiations to establish the first ever Single Market for Trade in Goods and Services on our Continent in the Continental Free Trade Area for Africa.

Excelsior, established in 2010, allows companies to receive 10 years of refundable tax credits for meeting job and investment thresholds.

Over the next year, campaigners, non-governmental groups and the media need to establish equally hard - edged thresholds of what the Conservatives need to do to be taken seriously on the environment, democracy and social justice before Cameron's policy commissions make their recommendations.

Only one - third of patients newly diagnosed with PTSD and under a quarter of those with depression met these established thresholds.

Two of the biggest aero engine makers — Rolls - Royce in the UK and General Electric in the US — did not return phone calls or emails asking for comment on if, how and when they plan to establish safe thresholds.

What Litvak found is that the MeCP2 gene is responsible for establishing a threshold for the activation of macrophages in the presence of stimuli and stressors such as hypoxia, corticosteroids and inflammation.

Lower dosages did not generate responses that met this threshold, thereby establishing the minimum dose of influenza virus needed to produce mild - to - moderate illness.

Mercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl) concentrations were at the EPA threshold for occasional human consumption, while concentrations of DDT were consistently much lower than the established threshold.

This falls far short of the 10 000 - hectare threshold below which, according to guidelines for establishing SSSIs, all examples of an ecosystem should be protected «in their entirety».

The attempt to set a threshold for consciousness with our limited definition is much like early attempts to establish freezing and boiling points without a thermometer or a good definition of temperature, he says.

All contrasts were limited to the brain locations within the supplementary motor area and the parahippocampal gyrus, as defined in the Harvard — Oxford Cortical Structural Atlas (available in FSL software), and a threshold was established, with gaussian random - fields theory, at a cluster - level z value of more than 2.3 (corrected P < 0.05).

We can not predict how genetic information might be used in the context of public health or policy decisions; indeed, establishing thresholds for utility in the public health context is made difficult by the probabilistic nature of genomic information.

Miller & Stassun show that misusing GRE scores, particularly by establishing score thresholds, fuels the underrepresentation of white women and minorities in graduate programs.

The weight classes that have so far been established seem to be perfectly set at the threshold that allows the athlete who wants to compete naturally to have a chance of being at the top of their weight class.

The letter grade that each school receives is determined by the percentage of its students scoring above the thresholds established by these five categories or levels.

The survey also established definitions of «low - income» and «high - income» using an annual household income threshold of $ 50,000 — with households above $ 50,000 being considered high income with the converse being true.

Using the new framework for school accountability, the lowest 5 percent of school scores establish the support threshold, and any school under the threshold will be identified for comprehensive support.

PHMSA established this ANPRM to ask a series of questions seeking comments as to what a national vapor pressure threshold should be.

The new rule will establish a set of minimum performance standards, a standardized scoring system, and a pass - fail threshold that will better inform local transit agencies as they evaluate and purchase buses for use in their communities.

I also think they are right to try to establish a threshold or standard for what constitutes «professional,» because there is indeed a wide range between self - published authors who write well and produce well - edited, well - formatted books and those who, frankly, have little grasp of the fundamentals of writing — basic grammar, punctuation, and syntax as well as plot, characterization, voice, and the other aspects of writing that can make or break a story.

Back before Amazon established the 99 cent threshold for books and stories published for the Kindle, I used to find a large number of (undoubtedly illegal) science fiction and fantasy stories available for pennies.

«I try to establish where the threshold of pain is.

stop orders are generally used to protect a profit or to prevent further loss if the price of a security moves against you; they can also be used to establish a position in a security if it reaches a certain price threshold or to close a short position; not all securities or trading sessions (pre - and post-market) are eligible for stop orders

Once the behaviors are established and on cue, you will work to raise your dog's threshold for levels of difficulty and proximity of distractions and generalize to different places.

Instead of establishing a licensing threshold for retail breeders that have more than 4 breeding females the Department needs to define and then formally exempt hobby breeders (home breeders) as the Impact Analysis states is the intent.

About Blog The Women's Musical Club of Toronto presents an annual series of world - class chamber music concerts by both well - established international and Canadian performers, and exceptional musicians on the threshold of their careers.

‡ This placement on the threshold of early and late twentieth century modernism served Stankiewicz well, as he continued to exhibit and develop his sculpture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing relationships with New York galleries even after he left the city in 1962 for rural Massachusetts.

For large - scale experiments that cross a threshold of 10 − 2 Wm − 2 Parson and Keith support a moratorium until the need for them can be established.

Considering U.S. public health in general, the cost - effectiveness of many prevention activities is well established.276 Some preventive actions are cost - saving, while others are deemed cost - effective based on a pre-determined threshold.

We define nuisance flooding as occurring when the water level at a NOAA tidal gauge exceeds the local threshold for minor flooding impacts that has been established by the local Weather Forecasting Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS).

Often, these examinations are formalized by the use of null - hypothesis testing, in which a threshold of a selected validation measure is established representing a low likelihood that a value at or above the threshold would occur in the reconstruction process purely by chance.

One might (or might not) argue for such a relation if the models were empirically adequate, but given nonlinear models with large systematic errors under current conditions, no connection has been even remotely established for relating the distribution of model states under altered conditions to decision - relevant probability distributions... There may well exist thresholds, or tipping points (Kemp 2005), which lie within this range of uncertainty.

In this procedure, random «null» proxy sets are generated and their performance in «reconstructing» temperature for part of the instrumental period is used to establish a threshold for the statistical skill of reconstruction from the real proxies.

I think we can dispute how much warming per doubling of CO2 the data support, but I think it's a going to be a very difficult task demonstrating a plausible mechanism (by plausible I mean something that isn't completely eliminated by existing observation and well - established theory) that set t the sensitivity to CO2 to «zero» above some threshold CO2 value.

Established Pinus halepensis (Borghetti et al., 1998) show high drought resistance, but Ponderosa pine forests had reduced productivity and water flux during a 1997 heatwave, and did not recover for the rest of the season, indicating threshold responses to extreme events (Goldstein et al., 2000).

The Court thus effectively establishes an entirely new standard based on Article 47 CFR alone and no longer applies the high threshold set by the principle of effectiveness.

He concluded that Fastcase failed to establish that the case met the amount - in - controversy threshold for diversity jurisdiction of $ 75,000.

While modification of data was relatively straightforward to establish, the threshold at which a transient decline in system performance crosses the boundary into «temporary impairment» is likely to trouble the courts when considering offences under the new section.