The phrase "thresholds for defining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an established limit or point of reference for determining something. For example: "Before making a final decision on the project, we need to first establish clear thresholds for defining success."
The debate is in some ways similar to questions about changing thresholds for defining high cholesterol, diabetes and obesity — areas where accusations have been leveled in the past that the pharmaceutical industry has tried to exert influence.
It should be noted, however, that the threshold area is an average indicator and different physiographic regions may have different thresholds for defining rivers and streams.
The decision-makers should also determine target values for the indicators, concepts of time for when the target values should be reached, and thresholds for defining the parameters of the aims.
However, we compared the distribution by occupation of older cohorts to that of younger cohorts (using different thresholds for defining older and younger cohorts, i.e., arrival before/after 1995 and before/after 2000) and we found them to be very similar.
There are many possible alternative methods and thresholds for defining the oncogenic signatures that might have been used and which could have been considered equally valid.
Even after adoption of the new WHO-approved reduced thresholds for defining a positive smear and a smear positive case, re-examining the same smears for up to 10 minutes increased case detection by 70% [13].
California established a threshold for defining illegal pornography; a major test was that it had to be considered obscene to the "average person, applying contemporary community standards".
The objective of the study was to determine the threshold for defining abnormal labor that is associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.
This indicates that the optimal threshold for defining two TMHs separated by long loops is very different from the threshold required for identifying TMHs separated by short loops.
At this time point, all patients with forthcoming infections presented mHLA-DR below 8000 ABC (i.e., the usual threshold for defining the most severely immunosuppressed adult patients [36]).
Note the correction factors derived in this work applied when the contact angle is greater than or equal to a value that serves as a threshold for defining the start of failure at the geometric center of the disk.
