Sentences with phrase «than a certain threshold»

In brief, transcripts were included into a particular expression wave represented by a single artificial template, if its correlation with the specific pattern was higher than a certain threshold and also highest among all other patterns.

Market actors would conclude that they can't survive at rates high than a certain threshold, so sell the debt now, in case rates would get so high.

Once GHGs are subject to regulation, new stationary sources (i.e. smokestacks) that emit more than certain thresholds of GHGs will require permitting that mandates the «best available control technology» for GHGs.

Not exact matches

If your home sells for more than you paid for it — your tax or cost basis — that extra money can be considered taxable income at capital gains rates subject to certain thresholds and rules.

Like its competitors, T - Mobile does reserve the right to «deprioritize» your data above a certain threshold, but it now sets this «soft cap» at 50 GB a month — more than twice that of AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon.

[6] This «rule - of - thumb» allocation is consistent with a «threshold» approach, in which industries are allocated to the tradable sector if either their exports or competing imports are greater than a certain share of their gross output (generally 10 per cent; see Table B1 in Appendix B).

If you earn more than a certain level, known as the Social Security disability threshold, you're considered to be participating in a substantial gainful activity.

When elections fall below a certain threshold, they can do more harm than good — something that Lindberg himself has recognized in his most recent research on this topic, which is soon to be published in a collection of articles on African politics that I am editing for Cambridge University Press.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

[16] The use of the d'Hondt method makes for a higher effective threshold than certain other allocation method such as the Hare quota or Sainte - Laguë method, which are more generous to small parties.

The rent regulation bill appears to be more favorable to landlords than to tenant activists because it makes no changes to the process of vacancy decontrol, by which apartments are unregulated when their monthly rent crosses a certain threshold.

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

With these mouse models, the main influence on atherosclerosis has been found to be dietary cholesterol rather than the level of fat (42 - 44), but certain threshold levels of dietary cholesterol may exist at least within the context of a low - fat purified diet (45).

Tom — I know there are studies showing that animal protein appears more detrimental than plant protein for bone density but I suspect that is above a certain threshold of animal protein intake.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

If they are certain their total income from all sources will be more than the tax - free threshold they can only claim the tax - free threshold from one payer at a time.

For example, in order to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit, the IRS requires that you have earned income under a certain income threshold, and that your investment income be no more than $ 3,200.

If you earn more than a certain level, known as the Social Security disability threshold, you're considered to be participating in a substantial gainful activity.

A regulated exchange must establish position limits on security futures that are no greater than 13,500 (100 share) contracts, unless the underlying security meets certain volume and shares outstanding thresholds, in which case the limit may be increased to 22,500 (100 share) contracts.

The goal of the premium assistance tax credit is to limit households to paying no more than a certain percentage of income (as defined earlier) on their health insurance coverage, where any excess above those thresholds are covered by the credit.

On the other hand, dogs have been known to have a fairly higher maximum acoustic threshold, topping at 45 kilohertz or more than twice the maximum hearing acuity of children, although it is possible that certain breeds of dogs can have hearing acuities reaching as high as 60 kilohertz.

There was mention of the option to keep track of balances a la Mint.com, especially to guard against «over-using» a certain card (like stopping use of a card once you hit a specified spend threshold), as well as delineating benefits that would be more valuable than the points earned, such as sending all car rentals to a person's Chase United MileagePlus Explorer Visa, given its Primary CDW coverage.

However, there are many alternatives available which allow us to book round - trip domestic economy awards for cheaper prices than this when the flights are short enough to fall under certain mileage thresholds.

In recent years, scientific evidence has solidified around central findings, showing that sea level rise is likely to be far more severe during the rest of this century than initially anticipated, and that key temperature thresholds may be crossed that make life difficult for some kinds of plants and animals to survive in certain places.

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

For example, if a company does not include a certain set of sources that the verifier thinks should be included, and those sources are estimated to emit more than the materiality threshold, this would be material discrepancy and emissions from at least some of those sources would need to be inventoried.

As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..

Using more risk - based approaches which look at extremes and changes in certain climate thresholds may tell us how climate change will affect whole systems rather than individual climate variables and therefore, aid in decision making.

This could be applied easily to items like expensive jewelry (which may not be covered when worn outside of the home or in specific circumstance like when it is placed in a locker at a gym), or collections for example a record collection may not be covered under your normal policy if it is worth in excess of a certain threshold in total or if individual items are considered to be more valuable than a newly bought replacement (such as an album released on one label which has then since moved to another where it became very popular).

Presence (as I often write it with a capital P), is something special, it's different than «immersion», it's a deep state of subconscious immersion that is achieved when certain minimum thresholds are achieved.

Even if abuse and neglect definitions were uniform across the country, it is still likely that the true prevalence rate of abuse and neglect is much higher than what is reported or substantiated by child protective services (CPS) agencies.9 In addition, researchers are still uncertain about the threshold at which certain parenting behaviors begin to compromise a child's development.

Leads are considered «disqualified» if a caller is already working with another agent, is looking to rent rather than buy, or is inquiring about a property below a certain price threshold.

even those on here that are «living it up»... defined as - passive [and portfolio] income coming in, in amounts that exceed a certain threshold that allows them to work ON their business, rather than IN their business... THUS allowing them the time to spend it [time] exactly as they see fit.