In explaining its April 13 announcement, the C.D.C. said the Zika virus had met four of the seven scientific criteria – so-called Shepard's criteria, named for the Seattle pediatrician who invented them – needed to determine whether a maternal infection or poisoning in pregnancy directly causes birth defects.
Section 3 details our proposed similarity testing criteria named RBAC similarity.
The objective of this paper is the comparison of four rock failure criteria, named the Mohr Coulomb, Mogi Coulomb, Modified Lade and Tresca yield criterion and to apply them to determine the optimum drilling direction and mud pressure.
In these cases an etiological diagnosis was established, if the information provided was sufficient to judge aetiology according to the criteria named above.
Therefore, in order to detect early deterioration and differences between restorations using modern restorative materials, a new discriminative set of criteria, named FDI criteria, was developed [ 1].
Only 10 of the 201 eligibility criteria named a specific medication; all the others used a class description referring to characteristics or use of the medicines in that class.
Definite epidemiologic links between patients required 1 of the following criteria: named another patient as a contact, had a common contact, reported being in the same location during a patient's infectious period, or recognized each other's names or photographs.
In addition to the criteria named above, patients transferred from regions, hospitals and other medical institutions with a noted high MRSA prevalence, patients with a stay at another hospital during the last three months as well as patients working in animal breeding belong to the high-risk patient group.
The adaptive process is implemented by an infilling sampling criterion named expected improvement (EI).
