Sentence examples for ascertaining the threshold from inspiring English sources
Imputation error was calibrated by ascertaining the threshold of posterior probability associated with a 10% error rate for the CEU reference panel and a 5% error rate for the YRI reference panel averaged over 6,800 SNPs for which we masked the experimentally determined genotypes.
In a first step we measured the OKR in a behavioural paradigm during stimulation with random dot stimuli of different coherence levels to ascertain the threshold of the optokinetic system for global motion detection.
Establishing the true prevalence of melioidosis in northeastern Brazil will help ascertain the threshold for serodiagnosis and the clinical relevance of borderline results.
This test entails the slow lowering of temperature of the test arena floor from warm to cold and quantifying spontaneous nocifencive behaviour to ascertain the tolerance threshold to noxious cold.
Future research is needed to ascertain the optimum threshold as well as to cross-calibrate MR-based apparent BV/TV in the presence of bone marrow lesions among knees with OA [ 1, 2].
Because this type of Boolean analysis did not distinguish between genes in terms of their specificity, we ascertained the minimum threshold (p-value) required to reclassify a Pi-specific gene as being non-specific.
The primary objective of this study was to ascertain whether the Threshold Alkali Level (TAL) of the concrete aggregates may be taken as a suitable reactivity parameter for the selection of aggregates susceptible of alkali-silica reaction (ASR), even when ASR expansion in concrete develops under restrained conditions.
However, testing on this dataset suggested that six was an optimal cut-off for sensitivity and validity (Supplementary Material, Methods S3 for details on ascertaining this threshold).
However, there was significant heterogeneity between studies which may be due to differences in lengths of follow-up, methods of ascertaining the presence of ulcers and the use of different cut-off points (thresholds) for some of the tests [ 6].
'The exercise of ascertaining the facts was a serious one".
