The phrase "act as a criterion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or principle that is used to judge or evaluate something.
Example: "In this study, we will use customer satisfaction to act as a criterion for measuring the success of our service improvements."
Alternatives: "serve as a standard" or "function as a benchmark".
The link adaptation decides a proper MCS level for respective UE and PRB combinations based on the CQI which acts as the primary criterion [12].
"They may act as a minimum criteria to advance on to further sexual or romantic interactions".
It also acts as a critical criterion to visualize the nonstationarity of some vibration processes.
The acceptance of the surgical risk acted as a selection criterion, such that others agreed to act as controls, without wishing to be part of the transplant group.
The Oxycon Pro system acted as a "secondary criterion" as it has been shown to be a valid metabolic system in its mixing-chamber mode (Foss and Hallen 2005).
C n ( M ) ( L + 1 ≤ n ≤ N ) are caused by extrapolating iteration and may act as the criterion for renewing the POD basis, namely, if C n ( M ) > max ( Δ t 2, Δ x 2, Δ y 2 ), the old POD basis is substituted with the new POD basis regenerated from new snapshots.
Other characteristics, however, inevitably act as selection criteria for a telephone interview, as recently described [ 20].
Hence, these species satisfy the criteria to act as a catalyst for solar-driven production of H2O2.
Although fitness costs of disease under ancestral conditions may be only loosely associated with clinical severity in contemporary human populations (Di Rienzo 2006), we evaluated the capacity for a disease to act as a selective agent based on three criteria, all of which would be reasonably expected to affect lifetime reproductive success.
In England, the latter is constrained because of lack of supply so over-detailed eligibility criteria continue to act as a rationing mechanism.
