The ceiling ratio represents a decision maker's valuation of a unit of health gain and is a particularly crucial and politically sensitive element of economic evaluation as it is the relative value against which the acceptability of ICERs are judged.
In a speech in London, Gove said: "One particularly sensitive element of the matching process is, as you all know, matching by ethnicity.
The sensitive element of the pH sensing device was an ion-sensitive FET ISFETT) with a threshold voltage that varies by concentration of hydrogen ions.
On the other major sticking point from the last round, the fate of Iran's heavy water reactor under construction in Arak, there is also discussion of possible compromise language which would not suspend all construction work but would halt the most sensitive element of that work, the manufacture of fuel rods.
Rupture discs are the pressure and temperature sensitive element of non-reclosing pressure relief devices, consisting of the rupture disc and a holder.
The proton exchange membrane is the most sensitive element of this thermal management and it must operate under specific conditions in order to increase the lifetime and also the output power of the fuel cell.
Although this method allows researchers to make a further in-depth analysis and explore hidden and sensitive elements of discussions in the past, the method has some weaknesses.
One of the most sensitive elements of the Senate investigation relates to the C.I.A.'s handling of intelligence about the shipment of aluminum tubes seized by the United States in 2001 on its way into Iraq.
They can be used as sensors, sensitive elements of magnetometers, magnetic filters, ferrofluids, xerography, magneto-resonance imaging, magnetic hypothermia, and biomedical applications.
The sensitive elements of the modules, located in the focal plane of the telescope, are matrices of 64 6 mm × 6 mm pixels of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs).
