The thresholds used for fatigue are arbitrary, but sensitivity analyses and examination of figure 3 show that the main results are not artefacts of dichotomisation.
Because the criterion set to identify reform shocks is ultimately arbitrary, we perform sensitivity analysis to assess the robustness of the results to alternative thresholds (1.5 and 2.5 standard deviations).
The specific values of 0.5 and 0.01 are arbitrary, but empirical sensitivity analyses (see Supplementary Section S3) demonstrated little variability in results for values between 0.25 and 0.75 and between 0.005 and 0.05, respectively.
Duplicate spectra were obtained in the mass/charge (m/z) range 2500 75 000 with a laser intensity set at 220 (arbitrary units), detector sensitivity at 8 and a signal to noise ratio of 5%.
When choosing an arbitrary miRNA detection sensitivity of 75%, the difference between an AUC of 0.9831 (red bar Metazoa- Mammalia in Figure 4) and 0.9806 (red bar Homo sapiens in Figure 4) results in 6,749 or 17.6% fewer remaining genomic hairpins (38,383 and 31,634 hairpins, respectively).
We derive the material derivative of the proposed objective, termed as the configurational derivative, that describes sensitivity of arbitrary functionals to arbitrary motions of the inclusion/hole as well as the domain boundaries.
Critically is defined as the point in the parameter space where the nominal trajectory exhibits maximum sensitivity to arbitrary, unstructured perturbations applied at the maximum temperature.
Clamp-derived insulin sensitivity (in arbitrary units, U) was calculated as glucose infusion rate necessary to maintain euglycemia during the last 40 min. (steady state) of the clamp (in µmol·kg−1·min−1) divided by the steady-state insulin concentration.
Normal insulin sensitivity was arbitrary defined as a HOMA <2.0.
78 79 For continuous (eg, duration of symptoms) or ordinal (eg, severity of cardiac murmur) outcomes, the specific threshold for considering the result abnormal is somewhat arbitrary, and tradeoffs between sensitivity and specificity can be represented by a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
