The phrase "adjusted criteria" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to criteria that have been modified or changed to meet specific needs or conditions.
Example: "The committee has established adjusted criteria for evaluating the proposals to ensure fairness in the selection process."
Alternatives: "modified standards" or "revised benchmarks".
ART coverage in the study area is already around 70% using current treatment criteria in Malawi, but recently adjusted criteria will see the numbers of HIV-infected adults who are eligible for ART increase[35], while increased access to HIV testing and increased confidence in the health care system will enlarge the numbers seeking care.
Clinicians were less able to suggest youth to approach who met these adjusted criteria.
For assay data to be accepted, at least six non-anchor CS levels and at least four of the six QC samples (with at least one acceptable QC at each of the LQC, MQC, and HQC levels) on each plate had to meet these adjusted criteria.
Five million of the filtered but not assembled reads were analysed with PAL_FINDER 0.02.03 (Castoe et al. 2012) to identify SSRs using slightly adjusted criteria: at least six contiguous repeat units for dinucleotide repeats, four for tri- and tetranucleotide repeats and three for penta- and hexanucleotide repeats (Castoe et al. (2012) used six units for trunicleotide repeats).
Using the adjusted criteria, giving more weight to specificity, resulted in a cutoff of 7.0 cm.
"We are meeting with your group this week to discuss adjusting criteria for rating C.D.O.'s of real estate assets this week because of the ongoing threat of losing deals," a business manager wrote in an August 2004 e-mail message, referring to collateralized debt obligations.
Recently released e-mail from employees at the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's indicated a wish to "discuss adjusting criteria" for rating securities and "massage the subprime and alt-A numbers to preserve market share".
"We are meeting with your group this week to discuss adjusting criteria for rating C.D.O.s of real estate assets this week because of the ongoing threat of losing deals," the e-mail said.
In one e-mail message, an S.& P. employee explains that a meeting is necessary to "discuss adjusting criteria" for assessing housing-backed securities "because of the ongoing threat of losing deals".
A 2004 e-mail message from one Standard & Poor's employee to another referred to a meeting to "discuss adjusting criteria for rating C.D.O.'s of real estate assets this week because of the ongoing threat of losing deals".
But David Jacob, who ran the S.& P. division that rated mortgage-backed bonds until 2011, said that in his time at the company, after the financial crisis, he saw employees adjusting criteria in response to business pressure.
