Given the imprecision and temporal variability of EIR estimates, malaria transmission intensity was arbitrarily categorised into three broad categories as low (EIR<10 bites per person per year (pppy)), medium (EIR 10 100 bites pppy) or high (EIR>100 bites pppy).
These values were chosen somewhat arbitrarily but give a broad range and permit a check on the robustness of results when "availability" is defined differently.
For the purpose of the present study, which used retrospective data, we arbitrarily defined infection using broad criteria for assessing infection in the critically ill.
The overwhelming majority of Palestinian prisoners are political captives who have been arbitrarily imprisoned or detained under the broad banner of "security", according to the Israeli human rights group B'tselem.
The validation procedure can further be generalized to explore model performance in an arbitrarily defined extreme condition for a broad range of model types.
Yet, to do this, the MLMM often must arbitrarily choose one marker from a broad peak of significance.
The TSP itself -- whose revelation in 2005 sent a massive shockwave through the policy establishment -- may have been a contrivance, an arbitrarily designated part of a far broader surveillance scheme.
In line with the IDSA and SIS guidelines considering broad-spectrum agents active against P. aeruginosa, and methicillin-susceptible and amoxicillin-susceptible Enterococcus, we arbitrarily defined pip/taz, imipenem/cilastatin, and fluoroquinolones as broad-spectrum antibiotics.
The new arrangement can work, however, only if the senators themselves exercise restraint and do not use their positions to block nominations arbitrarily and even secretly, or to keep bills that have broad support bottled up in committee.
Using in vitro mineral suspension testing, we have identified two natural mineral mixtures, arbitrarily designated BY07 and CB07, with antibacterial activity against a broad-spectrum of bacterial pathogens.
