Sentence examples for upon thresholds from inspiring English sources

Government-based guidelines for acceptable degrees of exposure prior to the 1970s were based upon thresholds of overt toxicity and on apparent acceptance that norms in lead concentrations in a society enveloped in lead-permeated exhaust fumes and lead paint must somehow reflect organic tolerance.

Cut-points for categorized variables were based upon thresholds used in prior studies [ 21, 26].

(ii) To benchmark the severity of the crisis, by referring the study's mortality rate to internationally agreed-upon thresholds for defining states of emergency (Table 1).

Because the players' share of league revenues that have been designated as basketball-related income by both sides passed an agreed-upon threshold, every player must deposit 10percentt of his 2001-2 salary into an escrow account to be divided by the owners of the league's 29 teams.

Caught in a partisan dispute over how to proceed with eliminating new tax reporting rules, the Senate twice was unable to reach an agreed-upon threshold of 67 votes to eliminate a provision that critics have seized on to illustrate the failings of the health care legislation championed by Democrats.

Al-Najjar [1] suggested (i) a graphical method for selection of cost effective monitoring technique, (ii) a graphical method to estimate the level at which equipment should be replaced depending upon threshold value.

The standard curves were created automatically by the Applied Biosystems software based upon threshold (Ct) values.

Upon thresholding, the number and square surface of plaques are determined automatically.

Different threshold levels were tested for area identification; the overall pattern of results did not depend upon threshold.

ImageJ was used to calculate ROI covered by SHG/fibrillar ECM signal per optical slice within the volume, after conversion to a binary image based upon threshold values.

AUC is useful in that it is calculated from the direct value output of a prediction method across all thresholds rather than the binary output dependent upon threshold placement.