The potential influence of the school is therefore substantial, presumably especially so for those students who lack a certain threshold of capabilities when starting in higher education.
For this reason the role of society and government is to provide different means (including life sciences innovation and policies of social and economic redistributon) in order to bring people up to at least a minimum threshold of capabilities.
The Senian perspective of distributive justice also allows for the gene-environment interaction to be taken seriously on board in order to bring people up to at least a minimum threshold of capabilities.
"In the end, we need a statement to be made by the chief of staff that the plan, as is, has ripened, has crossed the threshold of operational capability," Mr. Barak explained.
Rather, they believe Iran's approach is to keep moving every piece forward until it reaches the threshold of a capability to build a number of warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
For example, Nussbaum argues that the ten capabilities on her list, being incommensurable, cannot be traded off against one another (and, hence, have no relative weights), and also that the state should provide each citizen with a minimum threshold of each capability.
An individual threshold of the capability to cope with stress has been hypothesized.
The real challenge over the next 12 to 18 months, the official said, is to prevent Iran from reaching the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
She describes ten key capabilities (ibid., 33 34) and states that 'an ample threshold of ten central capabilities is required' (ibid., 32).
We posit that smart transducer systems may be on the threshold of developing such capabilities.
