Fire officials said that based on details given by the initial caller, the 911 operator categorized the call as "Segment 5" — a medium priority call.
When a node's buffer is full, those with a low priority are dropped first followed by those with a medium priority.
Separate ordinal variables were created where responses were coded as 0 = too much, 1 = right amount and 2 = too little and 0 = government should not address this issue or it should be a low priority, 1 = a medium priority and 2 = a high priority.
At the population level (for a total of 45 alewife populations), six populations were designated as low priority, 23 as medium priority, and 15 as high priority (Table 4).
At the population level (for a total of 55 blueback herring populations), 0 populations were designated as low priority, 26 as medium priority, and 29 as high priority (Table 4).
We considered demographically increasing populations (slope > 0) to be low priority (i.e., at low risk), stable or slightly declining populations as medium priority, and steeply declining populations as high priority.
The 'final priority score' (FPS), is then used to classify taxa according to the following ranges: (1) as high priority species if the FPS is between 0 and 3, (2) as medium priority species if the FPS is between 3.01 and 5, (3) as low priority species if the FPS is between 5.01 and 7.5, and (4) as well conserved species (no need for further collection) if the FPS is between 7.51 and 10.
For alewife stock-level prioritizations, the Southern New England Stock was designated as high priority and the Northern New England and Mid-Atlantic Stock were designated as medium priority.
For blueback herring stock-level prioritizations, the Southern New England and Mid-Atlantic Stocks were designated as high priority, and the Northern New England and South Atlantic Stocks were designated as medium priority.
Not paying student loans can result in seizure of tax refunds and wage garnishments, but the center says the loans should be treated as medium priority.
