Increasing the cut off reduces the information content of the HVM – it is 100% at cut off one – but also enhances its tractability.
Increasing the cut off point for recommending biopsy, substituting with a short-term follow-up protocol with biopsy if any change, may safely reduce the number of false-positive biopsies.
The parasitic capacitance value is measured to be 0.6 fF for 1 μm anode radius which increased the cut-off frequency to 1.5 THz.
In other words, we iteratively increased the cut-off value for bij' until the estimated size of the habitat-specific γ-diversity of at least one of the 806 plots fell below the observed species richness of that plot, and we chose the former iteration as a cut-off value for bij'.
This increased the cut-off value for the AMDV-G ELISA from 0.19 to 0.28, which in turn increased the specificity from 93% to the more acceptable 98%, but decreased the sensitivity even further (from 54% to 38%; Table 3).
The cut-off value for the percentage of 17p-deleted nuclei that predicted poorer outcome was initially established at 3% [ 58], while subsequent studies increased the cut-off levels up to 25% [ 11, 54, 59, 60].
As the TaqMan technology was more sensitive than Southern blotting (Bièche et al, 1998), we increased the cut-off for gene amplification in the real-time PCR assay from two to 2.5 to have a total correlation between this latter method and Southern blot analysis.
It is important to note that some authors recently proposed increasing the cut-off value of α to between 78° [81] and 83° [82].
By increasing the cut-off probability bij, we increased the strength of environmental filtering [54].
Increasing the cut-off for differential regulation to ≥3-fold did not significantly change r2 values (data not shown).
Increasing the cut-off levels for seropositivity from 1.5 to 1.8 log AU and above, resulted in a more rapid decline in seropositivity and a minimum Ab level being attained by 6 months, as previously described [6], [7], [25].
