Blood transfusions continue to be a controversial therapy in intensive care units, mostly in patients with SIRS/sepsis, with conflicting thresholds for transfusion and different results in the literature.
The first one considers the conflict as a threshold for the final speed selection, and so allows the SLA to stay undecided in case of highly conflicting situations.
As four of Britain's most distinguished scientists wrote on December 17 in the Guardian, 'Although it is possible to imagine extreme circumstances in which the principle may have to give way to conflicting imperatives, the threshold to justify this is extremely high.' One such imperative might be the debasing of science, as happened in Nazi Germany.
It is similar to the "prima facie duty" version of deontology developed to deal with the problem of conflicting duties, yet threshold deontology is usually interpreted with such a high threshold that it more closely mimics the outcomes reached by a "pure," absolutist kind of deontology.
And if they are used, Syria's conflict will become a threshold conflict in more ways than one.
If you have a low threshold for conflict, you may want an architect to run interference with the contractor.
"It seems … these activities are designed to stay below the threshold of conflict, but gradually demonstrate and assert claims that other countries dispute".
The laws directly conflict with the key threshold set by the Supreme Court: that abortion cannot be banned until the fetus becomes viable.
"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest," says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
Symmetrization also improves computation efficiency, which is especially beneficial in maneuver optimization to reduce conflict below a maneuver threshold, where large numbers of iterations are required.
The spread of drone technology could lower the threshold for conflict, according to Sarah Kreps of the Council on Foreign Relations.
