- be socially acceptable (acceptability pillar).
MYO: Last TechCrunch reported, Thalmic Labs had passed the $4 million mark on pre-orders for its $149 MYO armband, so if popularity is your benchmark for acceptability, it's not a bad bet.
In contrast to Weber's descriptive concept, the normative concept of political legitimacy refers to some benchmark of acceptability or justification of political power or authority and possibly obligation.
Using $50,000 per QALY as a benchmark for acceptability (37), we are quite certain (with more that 90% certainty) that diabetes prevention would be cost-effective if we used an FPG level of 105 mg/dL as the threshold to identify a high-risk state.
With Greg Rusedski an all but spent force, and few indications of any other home-grown player breaking into the top 100, the benchmark of international acceptability, Henman has become an increasingly isolated figure, carrying the whole burden of British tennis on his shoulders.
We believe such data will provide useful benchmarks for likely consumer acceptability of silicon supplemented foodstuffs and beverages.
In terms of acceptability the test product failed the WHO benchmark only for texture at visit 2 and 3 and speed of drying at visit 2. After one month of use, 67% of participants preferred the investigational product over the product they normally used.
Similarly, Emanuel et al. developed an ethics framework that combines principles and benchmarks to assess the ethical acceptability of clinical trials in developing countries [30], an approach also embraced by others [34].
For example, time consistency of a dynamic coherent acceptability index cannot be expressed in terms of a single benchmark family.
However, the acceptability of showering risk interpreted based on the U.S. EPA and WHO benchmarks is in disagreement.
A benchmark revision rate of 10% at 10 years is generally considered to be the threshold of acceptability for primary total hip replacement (see, for instance, NICE 2000).
