Since there is no set conventional cut-off point for classifying forest dependency, the average value across the study villages was considered as the threshold for categorising forest dependency into two levels: low and high.
In the Andean area, the threshold of a successful village agricultural economy can be placed at c. 2500 bce, or somewhat earlier than was the case in Mesoamerica.
Therefore, we set an artificial threshold of five live born of any village; villages bigger than this were included in the NTD prevalence rate calculation, then the values were used as sample in the subsequent statistical inference.
They stood on the threshold of our cities, villages and fields and watched as we lived our lives.
On 16 September 1983 Druze forces massed on the threshold of Suk El Gharb, a village defended by the Lebanese Army.
Lower 95%CI of parasite threshold in individuals aged 10-19 years in the lowlands villages was 6.68 (796 parasite/ μL), while for other age groups in the same stratum, the lower 95%CI was above 7.87(2617 parasite/ μL).
These integration areas were delimited based on visual (field) observations of plume transport direction, and were mapped so as to include concentration data above fixed concentration thresholds (~600 ppm at lake and ~650 ppm at village).
Even if the dose response relationship fits a threshold-like model, using the median arsenic level in each village as the exposure indicator might not generate accurate risk estimates because villages with similar median arsenic levels can have very different distributions of exposures.
About 70 percent of the village's 21,000 residents live in households whose income falls below the federal poverty threshold, according to the Census Bureau.
In a rural context even a 10-house threshold may lead to multiple infill developments that in combination induce unsustainable strains on village or town services, pressure which is planned for when larger developments are approved.
