Sentence examples for rigid cutoff from inspiring English sources

But unlike many states and against the medical consensus, Florida uses that score as a rigid cutoff point.

The justices ruled 5-4 that Florida's rigid cutoff score of 70 on intelligence tests with no accounting for measurement error or other evidence of impaired functioning is incompatible with the Court's ban on executing convicts with mental retardation.

Using rigid cutoffs for the CAT-PAD is not advised due to lack of consensus on the degree of capacities required for completing a PAD, and differences in situational demands.

In general, the amnestic MCI determination is made when the memory measures fall 1.0 1.5 SD below the means for age and education appropriate individuals in our community; however, rigid cutoffs on psychometric scores were not used to establish the diagnosis of amnestic MCI which was made on clinical grounds.

In arguments on Monday, a 68-year-old Florida inmate, Freddie Lee Hall, is challenging the state's use of a rigid IQ cutoff to determine mental disability.

The critical issue to be addressed is how to prevent the occurrence of FP cases driven by a rigid application of statistically defined cutoff values, especially when all potentially informative markers and ratios are not considered.

All simulations employed SETTLE and RATTLE algorithms to keep water and other covalent bonds involving hydrogen bonds rigid, correspondingly, a 7 8 Å cutoff for van der Waals and short-range electrostatic forces, and particle mesh Ewald (PME) method over a 1.0 Å resolution grid for long-range electrostatic interactions.

Because the initial gap distance h0 is the same as the non-bonded cutoff radius between the rigid plate atoms and the CG beads (Table 1), any displacement of the plate toward the particle results in an axial loading via the repulsive energy potential; thus, there is no loading slack in the system when ϵ = 0.

As recently discussed, the rigid application of the ±30% cutoff for the percentage error can potentially hide important information as two separate levels of precision contribute to it, of which only the combination adds up to the cutoff value [ 12, 25].

Commonly unaddressed guideline items were related to imaging methodology, determination of precision from double examinations, and also mean error of rigid-body fitting and condition number cutoff levels.

This model was placed by hand, aligning helices αA and αB into the unambiguous density, then refined as a rigid-body using a 4.0 Å resolution cutoff.