In the Christian polemic of the Church Fathers, Cardea is associated with two otherwise unknown deities who preside over doorways: Forculus, from fores, " door ", plural in form because double doors were common on public buildings and elite homes ( domūs ); and Limentinus, from limen, liminis, " threshold " ( compare English " liminal ").

According to Pokorny, Latin limen, " threshold ", is related to limes, being the stone over which one enters or leaves the house, and some have gone so far as to view the frontier as a threshold.

It is also known as the difference limen or the differential threshold.

In physiology, psychology, or psychophysics, a limen or a liminal point is a threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

For subject matter jurisdiction, the claims in the case must either: ( 1 ) raise a Federal Question ( i. e., a cause of action or defense arising under the Constitution, a Federal statute, or the law of admiralty ); or have diversity of parties ( i. e., all of the defendants are from a different state than the Plaintiff ), and have an amount in controversy that exceeds a monetary threshold ( which changes from time to time, but is $ 75, 000 as of 2011 ).

Hormonal defense mechanisms ( adrenaline and glucagon ) are normally activated as it drops below a threshold level ( about 55 mg / dL ( 3. 0 mM ) for most people ), producing the typical hypoglycemic symptoms of shakiness and dysphoria.

This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt ( less common today ), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun ( a rich fruit cake ) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder.

This activity is initiated by nociceptors, ( also called pain receptors ), that can detect mechanical, thermal or chemical changes above a set threshold.

Audiences still interpret motion at rates as low as ten frames per second or slower ( as in a flipbook ), but the flicker caused by the shutter of a film projector is distracting below the 16-frame threshold.

# Raising the electoral threshold from 1 % ( until 1992 ) to 1. 5 % ( until 2004 ), then 2 % ( took effect in Israeli legislative election, 2006 )

Others have bounced back considerably beyond that threshold however ( e. g., Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia ), and some, such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, underwent an economic boom ( see Baltic Tiger ), although all have suffered from the 2009 recession.

However, if the electromagnetic radiation hitting the metal cap does not have a high enough frequency ( its frequency is below the threshold value for the cap ), then the leaf will never discharge, no matter how long one shines the low-frequency light at the cap.

The being unknowingly follows and finds itself trapped in a threshold between this dimension and the dimension of souls ( the beyond ), where human souls go to after death.

If the number of dies — the integrated circuits that will eventually become chips — etched on a wafer exceeds a failure threshold ( i. e. too many failed dies on one wafer ), the wafer is scrapped rather than investing in further processing.

The latter aims at establishing an " objective " diagnosis indicator linked to the quantity of apneic events per hour of sleep ( Apnea Hypopnea Index ( AHI ), or Respiratory Disturbance Index ( RDI )), associated to a formal threshold, above which a patient is considered as suffering from sleep apnea, and the severity of their sleep apnea can then be quantified.

( below a threshold ), no effect is observed.

27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.

In Poland's Sejm and Germany's Bundestag ( elected through the Additional member system ), this threshold is 5 % ( or 3 constituency seats in the Bundestag, but directly won constituencies are kept, regardless ).

The threshold is 2 % in Israel's Knesset ( it was 1 % before 1992 and 1. 5 % from 1992 – 2003 ), and 10 % in the Turkish parliament.

* Clipping ( signal processing ), a form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold.

In his message " The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word " to priests for the 44th World Communications Day ( 16 May 2010 ), Pope Benedict XVI called for them to become digital citizens and engage with the information society, saying, " Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word .... Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today ’ s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?

For read-out, a voltage intermediate between the possible threshold voltages is applied to the CG, and the MOSFET channel's conductivity tested ( if it's conducting or insulating ), which is influenced by the FG.

If the level of eavesdropping is below a certain threshold, a key can be produced that is guaranteed to be secure ( i. e. the eavesdropper has no information about ), otherwise no secure key is possible and communication is aborted.

The word Astana in Kazakh literally means Capital but the word itself originates from Persian Astane ( means " sublime threshold ," " royal porte " implying a royal capital city or a holy shrine town, ( from the Persian verb Istadan ( آستان ) ' to stand ' ( in respect )), and literally means " threshold " ( royal or sacred, where people stand in respect or awe ), implying where the court is seated ( the capital city ) or the body of a sacred person is interred ( a shrine town ).

Each nation has its own threshold for absolute poverty line ; in the United States, for example, the absolute poverty line was US $ 15. 15 per day in 2010 ( US $ 22, 000 per year for a family of four ), while in India it was US $ 1. 0 per day and in China the absolute poverty line was US $ 0. 55 per day, each on PPP basis in 2010.

More precisely, Diaconis showed that it takes 5 shuffles before the total variation distance of a 52-card deck begins to drop significantly from the maximum value of 1. 0, and 7 shuffles before it drops below 0. 5 very quickly ( a threshold phenomenon ), after which it is reduced by a factor of 2 every shuffle.

where T is the return period of a given storm threshold ( e. g. 100-yr, 50-yr, 25-yr, and so forth ), and n is the number of years.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

Yet it is the accumulation of distortion, the fitting together of fractional bits until the total reaches the threshold of our awareness, that makes records sound like records.

Note that the mass threshold is four times that of 1958 Alpha and that the flux is one fifth as large.

The threshold mass is derived from the momentum threshold with the assumption of a mean impact velocity of Af in the U.S. work and Af in the U.S.S.R. work.

The amplifier is designed so that its gain is large for accelerometer signals above a certain threshold level.

This increase in the `` threshold '', as the conventional forces strengthening is called, will prove one of the alliance's most difficult problems in the months to come.

Now her modern tapestries have been exhibited on two continents and, at 26, she feels she is on the threshold of a whole new life in Los Angeles.

A statistically significant result ( when a probability ( p-value ) is less than a threshold ( significance level )) justifies the rejection of the null hypothesis.

The smallest sound that a person can hear, known as the threshold of hearing, is nine orders of magnitude smaller than the ambient pressure.

* A potentially serious side effect of many antipsychotics is that they tend to lower an individual's seizure threshold.

Additionally, PWM ( pulse-width modulation ) anemometers are also used, wherein the velocity is inferred by the time length of a repeating pulse of current that brings the wire up to a specified resistance and then stops until a threshold " floor " is reached, at which time the pulse is sent again.

In some contexts, the signal bandwidth in hertz refers to the frequency range in which the signal's spectral density is nonzero or above a small threshold value.

Because this range of non-zero amplitude may be very broad or infinite, this definition is typically relaxed so that the bandwidth is defined as the range of frequencies in which the signal's spectral density is above a certain threshold relative to its maximum.

The bankrupt will have to pay income contributions if his or her income is above a certain threshold.

The threshold is indexed biannually in March and September, and varies according to the number of dependants the bankrupt has.

The income contributions liability is calculated by halving the amount of income that exceeds the threshold.

Antipsychotics are not recommended for benzodiazepine withdrawal ( or other CNS depressant withdrawal states ) especially clozapine, olanzapine or low potency phenothiazines e. g. chlorpromazine as they lower the seizure threshold and can worsen withdrawal effects ; if used extreme caution is required.

It is contraindicated in patients with a history of long-term use of benzodiazepines, those having ingested a substance that lowers the seizure threshold or may cause an arrhythmia, and in those with abnormal vital signs.