Sentence examples for criterion rather than a from inspiring English sources

Based on the experimental results obtained in two different specimen geometries and finite element analysis, it is deduced that a normal-stress-modified maximum shear stress criterion rather than a shear plane criterion can describe the conditions for the formation of shear bands in uniaxial tension.

Also, the use of an integrated criterion rather than a minimax only alleviates the burden marginally for the corrected kriging variance (but the computational cost is then much reduced when using a spectral approach for the classic kriging variance; see 14).

He seemed to make headway by characterizing the required pledge as a selection criterion rather than an effort to force groups to adopt views they did not hold.

Similar to Wolfe et al. (2007), this manipulation increased the hit rate, but also increased the rate of potentially costly false alarms, suggesting that it produced a shift in decision criterion rather than an increase in sensitivity.

We propose describing a birthweight distribution via a normal mixture model in which the number of components is determined from the data using a model selection criterion rather than fixed a priori.

The term 'signs of nerve root involvement' should be considered a label given to patients fulfilling these criteria rather than a definition of a diagnostic entity.

The term 'signs of nerve root involvement' should be considered a label given to patients fulfilling these criteria rather than a definitive diagnostic entity.

A rubric is a scoring guide to judge the student's work based on the sum of a full range of criteria, rather than a single numerical score [ 33].

Further, when we recruited overweight or obese YAMs for this phase, waist measurements of 94 cm or more were used as the inclusion criteria rather than a BMI above 25.

Hence, to respond correctly, test takers need subject-specific teaching knowledge and only little subject-matter knowledge because additional information has been provided in the item description (e.g., specifying price as decision criterion rather than simply a quantitative criterion).

The presence of a diagnosis code on a medical claim does not demonstrate positive presence of disease, as it may be incorrectly coded or included as a rule-out criterion rather than as an indication of actual disease.