We extracted the following characteristics: methods (study design, sampling strategy, sample size, location, publication status), participants (recruitment, gender, age, proportion of SPFS), and outcome (accelerometer model used, number of days measured, cut-point used to define level of measurement, percentage respondents with valid measurements).
The standard threshold value ≥5 was used to define level of depressive symptoms [ 20– 20].
A pre-defined, published HERmark clinical cutoff (13.8 RF/mm [ 16]) was also used to define H2T levels as H2T low and H2T high in OS analysis.
Quantitative Northern blot analyses were used to define the levels of mature miR-181a and miR-181c, as well as the sizes of the mature miRNAs and the levels of the pre-miRNAs produced from various mir-181a-1/c mir-181a-1/c mir-181a-1/c 23 cells (Fig. 6A, 6B, 6E, and S8).
When item parameter estimates are to be used to define competence levels or thresholds for later use, for instance, item difficulties must be highly precise.
A SOFAS score ≥80 was used to define normal levels of functioning [ 15].
Twenty items on the questionnaire were used to define the levels of knowledge, attitude and practice.
Untreated cells were used to define basal levels of apoptotic and death cells.
The score of the intensity plus the percentage of positive staining was used to define expression levels.
The location and scope of health care services provided over a 90-day period were used to define three levels of relapse management.
