The phrase "artificial cutoff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a non-natural or imposed limit or boundary is established, often in discussions about data, research, or technology.
Example: "The researchers implemented an artificial cutoff to exclude outliers from their analysis, ensuring more accurate results."
Alternatives: "imposed limit" or "man-made threshold".
Democrats said Republicans were well aware that a future Congress would be under extreme pressure to extend those tax breaks but had proposed the artificial cutoff to make the entire package look smaller.
In the past 50 years, the Shishou reach in the middle Yangtze River underwent significant channel evolution owing to the implementation of an artificial cutoff, the construction of bank revetment works and the operation of the Three Gorges Project (TGP).
Yes, we may need to work longer, at least beyond the artificial cutoff of 65, but "age brings experience and wisdom," he wrote.
Second, we analyzed ACR throughout its continuous range, avoiding artificial cutoff values, such as microalbuminuria, that could limit its descriptive utility (6).
The lack of significance could be due to (i) true negative finding: these parameters are not helpful to discriminate the patients with a short survival, or (ii) false negative findings: small sample size or artificial cutoff value.
However, it should be noted that the lifetime fecundity of Mt. Hood beetles (without the artificial cutoff date) is similar to that of the Scherzinger beetles (data not shown).
Since gene annotation programs do not perform well in predicting small proteins, that is, less than 100 aa, it has been common practice to set an artificial length cutoff of 100 aa to avoid flawed predictions.
In this study, we focused on the co-expression property across two different species, thus no fold change threshold was applied, by doing this we could avoid information loss due to artificial fold-change cutoff (i.e. genes changed with significantly low p values, but with less than 2.0 fold changes).
Given that the heatmap is constructed from aCGH copy number states rather than continuous copy number ratios, these differences could be due to artificial changes in ratios near the cutoff for defining gains or losses.
For our analysis, we did not use a fold change cutoff since we feel that artificial fold change cutoffs, which exclude subtle changes in the expression of many genes, may result in the loss of valuable biological information, or worse, affect the interpretation of the data – this is particularly true for applications such as network/pathway analysis [ 16].
To avoid BG fluctuations effects, the background level was subtracted from the expression measure, and any expression level below this cutoff was set to 0. This subtraction considerably reduces artificial correlation between weakly expressed ORFs.
