The cocaine market is now split into two defined tiers – those happy to pay £30 to £40 for "bashed up" street cocaine, and those who will pay a premium – anything from £70 to £150 a gram – to acquire a better quality wrap.
Sites that completed more transformation activities and progressed over defined tiers reported higher PCMH-A scores.
To assess the relevance of each project to climate change and health, we defined four "tiers," ranging from tier 1 for most relevant to tier 4 for not relevant to climate and human health.
TME is a multi-tier client-server application and can be subdivided into different functional modules which interact as self-contained units according to their defined responsibilities: presentation tier, business tier and runtime environment.
While sales price is a very clear distinguisher, there are multiple classifications of the number that actually defines the tier, leading to the term being thrown around.
Rule models use guidelines that define each tier and the requirements for inclusion.
For example, our findings suggest that to improve retention of health workers in rural Nigeria, it may be necessary to ensure regular payment of salary, unify the salary scale of health workers across levels of care, and clearly define which tier of government takes primary responsibility for the salary of PHC workers.
But the middle-income tier — defined in this Pew Research analysis as all adults whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median — is the only one that also shrunk in size, a trend that has continued over the past four decades".
Instead, it is carried out on the basis of legally binding decision criteria (at least for the standard assessment, i.e., lower tier) defined in the PPP Regulation [10] and in corresponding technical guidance documents.
Patients with CMS-defined tier comorbid diabetes stayed longer than patients with non-tier diabetes.
Three Kaplan-Meier curves showed a statistically significant difference in progression-free survival among the three risk tiers defined by the combined LDA model (Figure 5).
