The phrase "a second criterion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing multiple criteria or standards that are being evaluated or considered in a particular context.
Example: "In addition to the first criterion of effectiveness, we must also consider a second criterion of cost-efficiency."
Alternatives: "an additional criterion of" or "a second standard of".
A second criterion for the selection of genes was presence of their transcripts in a GenChip hybridization experiment using RNA isolated from a glucose fed-batch fermentation (Pel et al. 2007).
It was not necessary to apply a second criterion; none of the remaining items loaded higher than 0.4 on more than one factor.[ 28] In table 4 the pattern and the structure matrix following from the component analysis are presented again, this time without item 6 and values <.40.
As a third criterion for validation of the tasks, we calculated correlations between task performance and two standard measures of user satisfaction (table 5, row 5 8).
The knowledge of this size effect could be adopted as a useful design guideline and can be taken as a first criterion for the adoption of these systems.
A first criterion to consider a pair of two proteins as reference, is that they are systematically co-regulated, i.e. that their relative expression level in different cell types remains constant.
A second criterion was the inclusion of different district contexts including a mix of rural and urban as well as those with good and poor overall performance.
In these cases a second criterion, the statistical evaluation of risk-matings, was used to identify potential phenocopies.
In this case, we tested a second criterion based on the slope of the fit.
A second criterion based on the variation of the non-dimensional temperature due to radiation (scaled in wall units) is also developed to predict whether a wall model accounting for radiation is required when coupling effects become significant.
