Ceiling effect was more pronounced with all subscales except PER having ceiling responses exceeding 5%.
The living room — the anchor of the house — has a pitched ceiling that exceeds 30 feet, a rock fireplace and a wall of windows with French doors opening to a deck.
For example, in the particular case of countries of the West African Monetary Zone (Couchoro 2011), laws on usury for all financial institutions operating in the area impose 'an usury ceiling' not exceeding twice the discount rate of the central bank (i.e., 17% per year).
Measures include requiring a three-fifths majority in each House of Congress for raising the debt ceiling or exceeding a budget, requiring a roll call vote for any increase in taxes, requiring that a president's budget not include a deficit (except in wartime), and giving the president the line-item veto.
Floor and ceiling effects exceeding 15% were considered high [ 44].
Floor and ceiling effects exceeding 15% have been considered high [ 23].
In our study, however, we applied a more stringent criteria with floor and ceiling effects exceeding 5% considered as high.
Since all my earnings will be above the covered ceiling and since all future covered earnings ceilings will exceed $106,800 ,each year I work will lead to a replacement of a lower earnings year in my AIME formula with a higher one.
However, ceiling effect was less pronounced than in KINDL-Kid (Singapore), with only one (FAM) of six subscales having ceiling responses that exceeded 5%.
A slight further reduction in the value of f (t)·g (t) to prevent the ceiling ever being exceeded would be sufficient to bring the epidemic under control no matter how long the prevailing mean delay time to diagnosis.
In scenario 1 the ceiling κ is exceeded already by day 9 whereas in scenario 2 κ is exceeded only by day 18 so that the window of opportunity to achieve a diagnosis, that is, the threshold time Γ, has been doubled.
