Incisions were made from the distal wrist flexor crease in line with the radial border of the ring finger, approximately 3 cm in length up to the level of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint.
Heading for the upper level is a good rule of thumb - you can descend quickly (or alternatively, toss down a grenade) by way of gaps in the radial routes.
But if this takes it to a whole 'other level, as a general rule of thumb: never let 'em see you sweat.
What counts as "moderate to intense" will vary depending on your current fitness level, but a good rule of thumb is that you should break into a sweat within the first few minutes of exercising and keep sweating for the duration of your workout.
Using only grip strength and pinch strength measurements to assess a person's hand function does not provide information regarding the strength at the level of the fingers and thumb.
As a rule-of-thumb, changes in gene transcription level that are between −50% (i.e. halving) and +100% (i.e. doubling) are considered "insignificant" [ 33].
Not only has the proportion of people making late debt payments been rising, so has the proportion of people whose debt payments exceed 40percentt of their annual income, a rough rule of thumb for the level at which debt can endanger financial health.
There are all kinds of rules of thumb about what level of your current net income you'll need to sustain yourself in retirement, generally ranging from 60% to 80% to even more.
KBBN incorporates the rules of thumb as high level variables or class priors in the Bayesian network and therefore combines the information obtained from rules of thumb with the information provided by a BN model specifically designed for the domain.
Serri et al. [ 126] provide some rules of thumb regarding PRL levels and clinical presentations in premenopausal women: marked PRL excess (>100 ng/ml) is commonly associated with hypogonadism, galactorrhea and amenorrhea; moderate PRL excess (51 75 ng/ml) is associated with oligomenorrhea; mild PRL excess (31 50 ng/ml) is associated with short luteal phase, decreased libido and infertility.
Mr King says it is all down to "rules of thumb" concerning the likely level of inflation.
