"hard criterion" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is used to refer to a standard or requirement that is difficult to meet. For example: "The company's hard criterion for job applicants means only the best and brightest will be considered."
The only hard criteria for the scholarship is that the team must have raised less than US$1 million.
Some hard criteria for the discount negotiation are mandatory and pre-set: Result of the GBA-assessment Price as set by the manufacturer Annual costs of comparable therapies.
The essential criteria are further categorized into 'hard' and 'soft.' The hard criteria verify the status of a family farm as well as several aspects of the biogas plant itself, such as a minimum previous operational life of 5 years or a slurry/manure volume fraction of at least 30% of all renewable input substrates.
In sum, it is important to have hard criteria in terms of the gates so you do not waste a lot of organizational energy pursuing things that will ultimately go nowhere and be as transparent as possible, letting the entire organization participate.
It remains unclear whether the finding dispels this methodology because no hard criteria exist upon which to judge suitability.
GATK was used to filter high-quality insertions and deletions (indels) by hard criteria, 'QD < 2.0, ReadPosRankSum < -20.0 FS > 200.0'.
We noted earlier the suggestion of Guion (2006, pp. 268 269) for abandoning the pretense about objective or "hard" criteria of proficiency in performance.
For, a group of people who are only recruited because of hard criteria like age or salary may still be very heterogeneous with regard to the lifestyle or internalized values of its members.
One can, for example, choose whether one recruits for hard criteria that are easily operationalized (such as age, sex, salary, and so on) or whether one includes softer criteria in the recruitment process (such as lifestyle, internalized values, political preferences, and so on).
As to the question of whether the correlation levels we observed for both LexTALE and self-ratings are sufficient to claim test validity, the old problem arises that there are no "hard" criteria to identify a given validity value as sufficient.
