And it may be that counting the grains becomes simply irrelevant to the determination of what constitutes a heap.
To help address this gap in knowledge and further investigate factors that might influence expert determination of what constitutes child neglect for children left home alone, we surveyed members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect (SOCAN).
Amplitude of vocal fold vibration is a core physiological parameter used in diagnosing voice disorders, yet quantitative data are lacking to guide the determination of what constitutes normal vibratory amplitude.
However, the Supreme Court's determination that what constitutes "cruel and unusual" should be dependent on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether.
And the Supreme Court's determination that what constitutes "cruel and unusual" should be dependent on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether.
Yet, in our ELISA, the determination of what constitutes a significant rise is more complicated because serum specimens are diluted only once to a specific level (e.g., 1/100) and the antibody level is then derived from a standard curve.
Determination of what constitutes MCID in osteoarthritic patients is however subject to considerable debate due in part to the use of 'intuitive sense' [ 44, 45].
These generally involve a great deal of manual labor and ad hoc determination of what constitutes a type of cell to this day there are disagreements in the literature as to the true types in the mammalian retina.
Rather, determination of what constitutes an effect of practical significance depends on the context of the research and the judgment of the researcher, and the values listed in Table 2 represent somewhat arbitrary cutoffs that are subject to interpretation.
As meningococcal-specific sequences are thought to represent only about 5% of the genome of N. meningitidis [ 72], differences in virulence among isolates and species is likely to be due to subtle changes in their genetic organisation and in their alleles, making the determination of what constitutes a pathogenic phenotype complex for these organisms.
