For girls, a more extreme cut-off than the IOTF was used at age 5, simply because it performed better (Tables 3 and 5).
If an extreme cut-off such as 40% were used, then just 4.3% of all admissions would be classified as high risk (column 8, table 3B).
We carried out a sensitivity analysis for different response rates to the Finnish diabetes risk score questionnaire (40% and 80%) and for its extreme cut-off points of 12 and 7, assuming, respectively, that nobody had a history of hyperglycaemia and that everyone had a history of hyperglycaemia.
Perhaps the most significant moment in Obama's State of the Union address came when, after chastising Congress for its extreme partisanship, he cut off applause from the Democratic side of the aisle.
"Knocked Up" and "Funny People" (Judd Apatow, 2007 and 2009): Profanity masking a great tenderness; dirty talk about women masking utter fear of women; the comic as extreme artist, disastrously cut off from family life.
CAIRO — The mystery over the whereabouts of the two main Iranian opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, deepened on Monday with contradictory reports over whether they had been jailed on the eve of a nationwide protest or remained under extreme house arrest, completely cut off from the outside world.
KABUL, Afghanistan/ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 27 October 2015 – Children in earthquake-hit areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan are facing further deadly threats as extreme conditions and insecurity cut off communities from aid - warns UNICEF.
The major sticking points now revolve around how to borrow more than $4 billion to help stave off extreme cuts to services, and whether to restore about $1.2 billion in education cuts the governor has proposed.
Because of such extremes, the station is cut off from the world for eight months - between March and November - winter at the bottom of the earth.
Not only did he lose the aforementioned 30lb from his already lean frame in just six weeks, and learn to play Chopin, he also went to extreme measures to feel as cut off and isolated as Szpilman must have felt.
Except that, taken to its extreme, it could be used to cut off all cultural funding whatsoever.
