Sentence examples for cutoffs that from inspiring English sources

The government's rules favor older participants and contain tripwires and arbitrary cutoffs that can leave similar workers with sharply different benefits.

Politically charged disputes over pricing have for years caused costly gas cutoffs that have at times left European homes without heat.

His second gamble is that he can win over the reluctant Chinese, by convincing them that sanctions are a better alternative than the instability and oil cutoffs that would very likely arise if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities.

Previous post-hoc analyses have proposed eosinophil cutoffs that are both arbitrary and limited in evaluating complex interactions of treatment response.

For protein with just one binding site they correspond to Top-1, Top-3 and Top-5 cutoffs that were commonly used to report results in previous ligand-binding site prediction studies.

The cutoffs that performed best in predicting post-extubation NIV and/or mechanical cough assistance were 85 L/min for PCEF, 62 L/min for PEF, and 1412 mL for FVC.

PHQ-9 scores were categorized into a binomial depression severity classification using standardized cutoffs that differentiated between no or mild depression (PHQ-9 scores <10) and moderate to severe depression (PHQ-9 scores ≥10) (Kroenke et al. [2001]).

To determine if newborn screening (NBS) programs for congenital hypothyroidism in the US use thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) cutoffs that are age adjusted to account for the physiologic 4-fold reduction in TSH concentrations over the first few days of life.

We identified the following cutoffs that could help exclude or confirm OTS: cortisol level at 30 min after awakening (exclusion = > 530 ng/dL); cortisol response to ITT (exclusion = > 20.5 μg/dL; confirmation = < 17 μg/dL or increase < 9.5 μg/dL); and ACTH response (exclusion = > 106 pg/mL or increase > 70 pg/mL; confirmation = < 35 pg/mL and increase < 14.5 pg/mL).

Therefore, to maximize specificity, we used pre-antiretroviral (pre-ARV) drug era wildtype virus samples to define cutoffs that exclude the detection of naturally-occurring minority mutants.

Improved low-frequency mutation detection was provided by clinical testing cutoffs that were 10 67-fold 10 67-foldtive than conventional sequencing.