Sentence examples for an arbitrary criterion from inspiring English sources

The study reports that over a short average period of observation (about eight years) a small reduction in fat calories results in a 9percentt reduction in the risk of getting breast cancer, which is very close to "statistical significance" (an arbitrary criterion).

In a subsequent vote, the Board passed another resolution opposing height as a primary qualification to play center for the Miami Heat, noting that such an arbitrary criterion thwarts the ambition of dwarf students trying out for basketball.

SNPs in the library were predicted using gsMapper software (Roche Diagnostics) with an arbitrary criterion of at least 4 reads supporting the consensus or variant.

The SNPs in A. glycines B1 454 data were predicted by gsMapper program (Roche) with an arbitrary criterion of at least 4 reads supporting the consensus or variant.

SSRs were identified using Msatfinder version 2.0.9 program [93] whereas SNPs were predicted using gsMapper software (Roche Diagnostics) with an arbitrary criterion of at least 4 reads supporting the consensus or variant.

Microsatellites/SSR markers were identified using Msatfinder version 2.0.9 program [75] and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were predicted using the gsMapper program (Roche) with an arbitrary criterion of at least 4 reads supporting the consensus or variant.

"We made a very conscious decision to give as broad a list as possible because we did not want to inflect the list with any arbitrary criteria," said Philippe de Montebello, the Met's director, testifying at a hearing yesterday in Manhattan called by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.

If the five consecutive mean DLs in a set could be fitted by a reciprocal function (our arbitrary criterion was a coefficient of determination of 0.75), the drawn curve of the function and its regression equation was inserted in Fig.  4.

To confirm that this was a sufficiently stringent arbitrary criterion to identify toxic compounds, we treated cells with 1 μM of the 11 kinase inhibitors that scored positive as above and then assessed 6 days after treatment whether cells exposed to these compounds were still viable.

Hence, the effect size is a more precise, less arbitrary criterion [ 28].

This arbitrary criterion is a very conservative one: if the noise was distributed in a Gaussian manner, then the p value associated with our criterion would be extremely low (p≪0.01).