The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and the patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) are cutoffs dichotomizing continuous values into variables such as improved or not improved (MCID), or in an acceptable state or not in an acceptable state (PASS), allowing to report the success rate (proportion of patients improved or in an accesptable state) in trial arms.
Stupid rent control laws deterred property maintenance and in 2005 Porto Vivo, a revival initiative, found that only four per cent of the centre's old properties were in an acceptable state and fully half in serious disrepair.
This means that when the MoD hands back unused houses to Annington, they have to pay "dilapidations" to ensure properties are in an acceptable state for Annington to sell them.
The following subsections define each of the required components of the network control problem, including the objective function which uses a target distribution and the Hellinger distance measure to determine whether the system is still in an acceptable state.
Like every living organism, a society has a goal -- long-term sustainable survival in an acceptable state.
Like every living organism, a society has a goal - long-term sustainable survival in an acceptable state.
Economics still should allocate resources efficiently, but not to maximize the short-term welfare of individuals - rather, to avoid catastrophes and to contribute to long-term sustainable survival of mankind in an acceptable state.
Kenneth Branagh has described how playing the angst-ridden eponymous hero in TV series Wallander put him in a "permanent, acceptable state of anxiety".
This argument may seem plausible to the extent that one regards, as Jonas does, the benefits of clinical research to be ones that make an acceptable state in life even better.
"Whilst we still have to make the best of a poorly designed facility, the refurbishment work has been completed and this facility is now in a much more acceptable state".
