The criteria that a system must fulfill to be considered living are constantly debated, but the ability to self-organize is crucial.
There are some important properties a polymer has to fulfill to be considered as host material for an ammonia sensor: The host polymer has to stabilize both the hydrophilic ammonium and the hydrophobic protonated indicator, which means that the polymer's hydrophilicity is a key factor for sensitivity and stability of the sensor.
Based on the measured properties of growing colonies of the targeted bacterial species we defined criteria that particles must fulfill to be considered a colony, all other particles were excluded from further analysis.
And about 10 years ago, the board imposed a curfew on Gulf Beach after 10 p.m. -- to get rid of young troublemakers, Mr. Veccharelli said, and never fulfilled its promise to consider rescinding the ban once the beach was safe again.
It contends that comments made by PeopleSoft's chief executive, Craig Conway -- in which he vowed to defend the company against Oracle's bid -- demonstrate the company does not intend to fulfill its fiduciary duty to consider Oracle's offer fairly.
The workflow of Fig. 1 encapsulates the vision put into the design of the eGRASP platform as much as it is a template of potential modelling scenarios envisioning the various components as data and processes needed to consider fulfilling our objectives for GRASPgfs.
For early recurrence the following criteria had to be fulfilled: patient considered to be a responder on Day 7, worsening of symptoms in the follow-up period (sum score ≥ 6) and a microbiological test result indicating ≥ 104 colony forming units (CFU/ml).
When initial procedural data are entered in the database and prespecified inclusion and exclusion criteria are fulfilled, the operator will have to consider randomization.
It has been suggested that at least 10 trials per covariate are needed to limit spurious findings, due to the low statistical power of meta-regression, and a nonparametric test has been suggested when this tenet is not fulfilled [ 30] Also, one needs to consider the problems associated with ecological bias when performing meta-regressions on patient levels variables [ 40].
(Which might have fulfilled him: consider it literature's previously unrecorded debt to Mussolini).
