Sentence examples for major thresholds from inspiring English sources

Franklin and Forman (1987) predicted that major thresholds in fragmentation of the landscape would occur when about 50% of the forest was converted to non-forest as a result of clear-cutting in the PNW (i.e., amount of edge exceeds interior forest).

Milestone birthdays are major thresholds that reinforce the cultural conditioning as it relates to age and health/vitality.

Professor Christian notes that this evolution crosses major "thresholds" such as the formation of the first stars, chemical elements, planets, living cells etc.

Nevertheless, our cut-offs (>70 = good, 51 70 = moderate, and <50 = poor) imply some face validity because they are clearly demarcating major thresholds in functioning on GFS measures.

On the Fourth of July, North Korea passed a major threshold: it launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile powerful enough to reach the mainland United States.

Rose is speaking from a position of strength having crossed the major threshold two years ago at the US Open at Merion.

"Doors were very often considered a major threshold in the spiritual as well as the physical sense," said Nancy Wu, associate museum educator at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval branch.

One major threshold that was immediately crossed by the new Bush Administration was the prevailing notion that terrorism was a law-enforcement issue rather than a national-security threat.

And with the launch of the Kepler satellite in March 2009 and the release last week of the data it has so far gathered, astronomy has crossed a major threshold.

Rainfall is the major threshold for triggering shallow landslides.

For the purpose of quantitative evaluation, we develop a quantitative NAND flash memory device model that can capture the major threshold voltage distortion sources.