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Only focal uptake visually detected, above the surrounding background, was considered as abnormal.
Any 15-meric peptide that yielded proliferative responses of at least 3 fold above background was considered as potentially immunogenic in the context of I-Ab (Fig. 1B).
For statistical analysis, any positive staining above background was considered as positive.
The one with a fluorescence intensity higher than 800 after subtracting the background was considered as an expressed gene since the signal greater than that detection level was more reliable.
Two platforms (AMB and EXQ) have low stringent criteria for detection call, in that all microRNAs with positive signal values after subtraction of background are considered as detected.
Currently, assay background is considered as the biggest obstacle for increasing the level of multiplexing in traditional circularization probe-based diagnostic assays.
Transformants showing Gla activity above the background were considered as Gla-positive transformants dGla-positive transformants were tested for the pyrG phenotype by inoculating spores of each transformant on TrMM with uridine or TrMM without uridine.
In our study, 'all above background' was considered MAVT, with skeletal muscle activity set as the threshold, which - as revealed by RM two-way ANOVA - was stable over sequential PET scans with no significant main effects of group (F 1.29 = 0.14), of time (F 2.29 = 0.73) and with no significant interaction (F 2.29 = 3.38, p = ns for all).
The lowest concentration which gave a response equivalent to three times the background noise was considered as the LLOD.
An evident measurement of radioactivity by the probe, exceeding the background signal, was considered as a positive identification of a SLN.
First, a binary value was declared for each transcription factor (TF) in each sample as expressed/unexpressed, based on the results of the cDNA macroarray (background threshold was considered as 0.01 for this analysis).
