Sentence examples for are defined by selected from inspiring English sources

The empirical design of the study is related to a Delphi study in which 'sustainability key competencies' are defined by selected experts from Europe Germany, Great Britain and Latin America Chile, Ecuador, Mexicoico).

Any arbitrary shape of internal and/or external Dirichlet boundaries are defined by selecting a discrete number of critical nodes on such boundaries using an integral equation in what is essentially a collocation technique to generate a sufficient number of equations to solve the number of unknowns (Rokhlin 1983; Kikani and Horne 1992).

Alert thresholds are defined by selecting a percentile of the prediction distribution, between 50% and 100%.

The medial-lateral axis was defined by selecting the most medial and lateral points on the tibial plateau.

NPC ROIs were defined by selecting 12-pixel ellipse-shaped ROIs encompassing the image pixels for NPCs (see Additional file 1 for details).

Departing from the hypothesis that compression after impact (CAI) strength is impaired by the presence of delaminations, a ply sequence was defined by selecting the mismatch angles between plies so as to maintain a central sublaminate with no, or small, delaminations.

A third set of genes that do not change from control to experiment was defined by selecting genes with FDR>0.8.

Finally, regions of interests (ROIs) were defined by selecting voxels corresponding to cortical areas that showed significant differences in the gamma-band range.

The regions of interest were defined by selecting all the pixels falling within areas showing significant differences across cultures (i.e., nearby the eye region for WC observers; nearby the nose region for EA observers – see Figure 4).

An EQ-5D 'health state' is defined by selecting one level from each dimension.

An SF-6D "health state" is defined by selecting one level from each dimension.