Utility estimates for each criterion level were determined as was the overall contribution made by the individual criterion.
To assess the significance of these morphometric deviations across the groups, we first defined the bilateral brainstem zones of greatest deviations in the intermediate case, i.e., in the mild-Ph group, starting from the maximum positive and negative values and extending down to a predefined criterion level.
We show in a 2×2AFC task, designed to minimize any potential artefacts due to criterion level or response bias, that sensitivities are essentially equal for shear and uniform motion under general conditions.
Results showed that the evaluation indices ranked according to the descending order of their weights as engineering index, 0.2147; management index, 0.2138; technology index, 0.2128; economics index, 0.1797; environment index, 0.1791 in the criterion level.
The study was comprised of four assessment phases: (a) no experience (i.e., participant had no experience with either site-based or motion-economy based designs), (b) after training (i.e., participant was trained to criterion level on both design options), (c) training and timer, and (d) training, timer, and work incentives.
The outcome of the nutrient criteria value model is the overall expected value for a criterion level choice; the optimal criterion level would be the choice that maximized the expected value.
Using the preferences of North Carolina environmental decision-makers and a total phosphorus criterion variable, the optimal criterion level was between 0.03 mg/L and 0.07 mg/L.
Since eutrophication is a condition that manifests itself differently in different systems, there is not a criterion variable with a clear threshold that can be used to set the criterion level.
The noise dose for drilling a bolt hole is relative to the MSHA 100% noise dose standard (i.e., 90 dBA criterion level, 5-dB exchange rate, and an 8-h working shift).
Further, we used the model to relate the level (concentration) of each criterion to the probability of compliance with the designated use; this provides decision-makers with an estimate of risk associated with the criterion level, facilitating the selection of appropriate water quality criteria.
Participants were trained on each trial type outside the scanner, to a criterion level of 80%.
