The phrase "a concrete criterion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, clear standard or principle used for judgment or evaluation.
Example: "To assess the effectiveness of the program, we need to establish a concrete criterion for measuring success."
Alternatives: "a specific standard" or "a clear benchmark".
Normally, when solving MSA problems, the optimal answer is unknown and there is no concrete criterion to evaluate the quality of a given algorithm, unlike the case for Pair-wise alignment where an optimal solution can always be found.
Based on our analysis and our own experience with empirical research in medical ethics, we will conclude with a sketch of concrete criteria which may facilitate the planning and conducting of empirical studies in medical ethics.
Such ideas went on to dominant memory research in the adult literature for many decades (they have been questioned in recent years – see Maguire and Mullally, 2013), largely because it provided a useful biological framework by which memory performance, across an array of different tasks, populations and species could be classified using a similar set of concrete criteria (Squire, 2004).
She found that "depression" did not emerge as a specific disease entity with concrete criteria until new drugs were tested in the 1950s.
This paper constitutes a first attempt to establish concrete criteria to define and assess the responsiveness of health systems to IPV, beyond the statements contained in the legislation.
The city is making innovated efforts of developing a benchmark situation for urban climate (heat islands), where they started with making evaluations, which led to the generation of concrete criteria and guidelines – thus making a link between the science and the policy recommendations.
A detailed inventory of these areas, based on sound and concrete criteria, and more detailed estimations of the level of fragmentation by roads in Europe shall form the basis for a proper assessment of the magnitude of the problem.
But the thing to remember is that these are concrete criteria.
This regulation adds "concrete criteria," said Commissioner Gregory B. Jaczko, who had voted against the initial proposal, calling it inadequate.
To that end, we will more extensively detect and monitor certain passengers based on objective, concrete criteria which respect smooth border crossings, fundamental liberties and security requirements".
