The best scientific evidence, confirmed by independent, Congressionally-mandated expert panels, is that there is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
The bill, introduced by Councilman Erik Martin Dilan, a Brooklyn Democrat, would increase the threshold of accumulated fines to $350 from $230.
In a commentary also published online in The Lancet, Professor Bert Brunekreef of the University Medical Center Utretcht, Netherlands, and Professor Barbara Hoffman of the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, note that it was "sobering" to learn that there was no threshold below which the effects of fine particulate matter did not have an impact on coronary artery calcium deposition.
Our goal is to develop an algorithm which reduces the number of fine tuning parameters and thresholds and improve the performance of algorithm using higher order information theoretic quantities such as CMI. 1.
This work studies the effect of fine aggregate characteristics on the thresholds of self-compacting paste rheological properties.
The method is based on minimization of fine error variances with the constraint that the gross error probability is below a certain threshold.
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The relationship between concentrations of fine particulate matter and risk of death "appears to [be] monotonic … without a discernible 'safe' threshold," wrote a group of experts from the American Heart Association in 2010.
The thresholds of our feature selection procedure could be fine-tuned and corrected (e.g. by relaxation of the statistical criteria controlling FDR and modification of the fold-change cut-off value).
Therefore, considering the denoising result of high-frequency scales, BM and SVD are applied instead of the adaptive threshold at fine scales.
