The schools have set exact cutoff points, she said, creating a caste system, consisting of children who scored above and those who scored below.
But starting early next month, the Education Department will hold a series of "town hall" meetings on it, and officials said some aspects of the plan could be altered, including the exact cutoff points.
Further studies and piloting should be conducted to identify the exact cutoff that can be used in different communities.
However, the exact cutoff value for changes in cardiac output measured with esophageal Doppler that should be used to separate responders from non-responders remains to be determined.
Thus, through a machine-learning method, i.e., the BLR classifier, the extracted features can be clearly used to train the classification model without needing to know the exact cutoff values.
The observed effect is not due to exact cutoff values set for the different CV-classes since a slight shifting of the class borders leads to the similar results.
This uncertainty about the exact cutoff values to differentiate normal renal function from AKI, coupled with poor performance in patients with pre-existing CKD or other comorbidities, has significantly limited the utility of AKI biomarkers [ 13, 33].
Further studies should be performed to define the exact cutoff value that should be used; these studies should include an evaluation of the magnitude of random errors in cardiac output measurements with esophageal Doppler.
D69, 1204 1214): "... it seems that changing the resolution cutoff over a considerable range (e.g. from 2.2 to 1.9 A) makes only a small difference, so the exact cutoff point is not a question to agonize over, but it seems sensible to set a generous limit so as not to exclude data containing real (if weak) information".
However, irrespective of the exact cutoff values chosen, prioritization results were always significant, except for a very high value of the cutoff on the fraction of QTL regions in which a prioritized BP should occur (>90%; Additional file 1: Figure S1).
