this mass threshold was derived from the detector calibration and an assumed impact velocity of Af.

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.

For international banks, including the 55 member central banks of the Bank for International Settlements, the threshold is 8 % ( see the Basel Capital Accords ) of risk-adjusted assets, whereby certain assets ( such as government bonds ) are considered to have lower risk and are either partially or fully excluded from total assets for the purposes of calculating capital adequacy.

Electrons can also be emitted from the electrodes of certain metals when light of frequency greater than the threshold frequency falls on it.

These differences stem from the threshold chosen for describing an extinction event as " major ", and the data chosen to measure past diversity.

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 ).

Adapting the algorithm to use an additional array to store the shape of the region allows generalization to cover " fuzzy " flood filling, where an element can differ by up to a specified threshold from the source symbol.

For example, when a nominally straight, un-aliased line steps across one pixel, a dogleg occurs halfway through the line, where it crosses the threshold from one pixel to the other.

By 1912, 16 % of peasants ( up from 11 % in 1903 ) had relatively large endowments of over per male family member ( a threshold used in statistics to distinguish between middle-class and prosperous farmers, i. e., kulaks ).

This definition breaks from the established use of the term libre to refer to free content and free software, where a specific threshold of permission must be reached.

It also announced that the threshold foreign equity ownership has been raised from 49 % to 70 % and allowed foreign banks to open up new branches and micro-credit facilities.

A helium-oxygen breathing gas is often used by deep-sea divers at depths of seawater over 55 m ( 180 ft ) to keep the diver from experiencing oxygen toxemia, the lethal effect of high-pressure oxygen, and nitrogen narcosis, the distracting narcotic effect of the nitrogen in air beyond this partial-pressure threshold.

Opponents of thresholds argue that they unfairly redirect support from minor parties, giving parties which cross the threshold disproportionate numbers of seats and creating the possibility that a party or coalition will assume control of the legislature without gaining a majority of votes.

# 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.

While courts have specifically made clear certain instances which have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.

When the sample is heated, at a certain temperature it will glow from the emission of electrons released from the defects, and this glow can be used to estimate the age of the sample to a threshold of approximately 15 percent of its true age.

On the other hand, a presynaptic neuron releasing an inhibitory neurotransmitter, such as GABA, can cause an inhibitory postsynaptic potential ( IPSP ) in the postsynaptic neuron, bringing the membrane potential farther away from the threshold, decreasing its excitability and making it more difficult for the neuron to initiate an action potential.

Additionally, a threshold is used, so that candidates are chosen only from parties that gained at least 5 % of the nationwide vote ( candidates from ethnic-minority parties are exempt from this threshold ).

Increases in dose at a rate of 200 mg every 1 – 2 weeks may be required to achieve a stable seizure threshold.

The US National Weather Service has a 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) or greater in diameter threshold, effective January 2010, an increase over the previous threshold of ¾-inch hail.

The party won 12, 811 votes ( 0. 82 %), just 2, 857 ( 0. 18 %) short of the electoral threshold at the time ( 1 %) for winning a seat.

The party won 12, 811 votes ( 0. 82 %), just 2, 857 ( 0. 18 %) short of the electoral threshold at the time ( 1 %) for winning a Knesset seat.

In the 1992 elections the Natural Law Party won 1, 734 votes ( 0. 06 %), and in the 1999 elections, won 2, 924 votes ( 0. 09 %), both below the then 1. 5 % electoral threshold required to enter the Knesset.

Four elected officials per district delivers a threshold of 20 % ( 1 / M + 1 ) to gain a single seat.

In 1998, the party reached the high-water mark in its fortunes by electing 37 deputies with 5. 1 % of the national vote, thus clearing the critical 5 % threshold required for guaranteed proportional representation and full parliamentary status.

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.

For example, in Canada, one proposal to reform the electoral system would see a 5 % national threshold, 1 % of the vote and 1 seat in the House of Commons, or 2 % nationally and 15 % of the vote in any one province.

It is generally accepted that for a given pulse duration and shape, a specific transmembrane voltage threshold exists for the manifestation of the electroporation phenomenon ( from 0. 5 V to 1 V ).

Each detection device uses a reference threshold value to determine whether a 1 or 0 is detected.

A baseband signal-to-noise ratio of about 30 dB is typical at the improvement threshold, and this ratio improves 1 dB for each decibel of increase in the signal above the threshold.

E. g. 1 regulations are enforced by fines, which operate as a form of tax if pollution rises above the threshold prescribed.

* In the event where threshold 1 is breached, the first halt is triggered.

If threshold 1 is breached between 2 p. m. and 2: 30 p. m., the halt will last 30 minutes.

In January 1944, Anne, on the threshold of womanhood, begins to attract Peter's attention.

Though it had been the standard-bearer of liberal economic policy and secular values in Israel for 30 years, the formation of Kadima robbed Shinui of its natural constituency, and in January 2006 the party split into small factions, none of which managed to overcome the 2 % threshold needed to enter the Knesset.

On 30 January 2008, in a league match against Manchester United, he became the third player ( after Gary Speed and Ryan Giggs ) to cross the 500-match threshold.

In the United Kingdom, as of January 2005, the ( NICE ) is believed to have a threshold of about £ 30, 000 per QALY – roughly twice the mean income after tax – although a formal figure has never been made public Thus, any health intervention which has an incremental cost of more than £ 30, 000 per additional QALY gained is likely to be rejected and any intervention which has an incremental cost of less than or equal to £ 30, 000 per extra QALY gained is likely to be accepted as cost-effective.

In January 2001 some members of the party's conservative right wing decided to move to join the new socially conservative Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska ), which got 12. 7 % of the votes 65 seats in the 2001 general elections whilst the more moderate Christian-democratic Freedom Union failed to cross the 5 % threshold required to gain entry to Parliament.

This legislation called for all election districts in the state over a certain threshold in population to incorporate as boroughs by January 1, 1964.

The threshold was $ 110, 000 in 2010 and it did not change for 2011.

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?

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.

In the 2010 general election, the Sweden Democrats for the first time crossed the four percent threshold necessary for parliamentary representation.

In 2010, in the United States, the poverty threshold for one person under 65 was US $ 11, 344 ( annual income ); the threshold for a family group of four, including two children, was US $ 22, 133.

There is, however, some dispute regarding the current population of Nipawin, with Tourism Saskatchewan's Saskatchewan Discovery Guide 2010 claiming a population of 5, 074, which actually places Nipawin over the population threshold for applying for city status.

In the 2010 election the party lost all its seats, after its share of the vote halved to below the 5 % threshold for entering parliament.

The " Trading Among Farmers " proposal went before a special meeting on 30 June 2010 and received 89 % support from farmer shareholders voting, easily exceeding the 75 % threshold required for a favourable vote.

Nikki Haley led the first nomination ballot with 49 % of the vote on June 8, 2010, but did not meet the 50 % threshold to win the nomination outright.

With air traffic congestion reaching an unacceptable threshold in Mumbai, the AAI put its age-old plan of reviving the Juhu airport on the fast track to ease some pressure off of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport ( CSIA ) in 2010.

The party took part in the 1994 ( 3. 66 %), 1998 ( 1. 86 %), 2001 ( 2. 47 %), 2005 ( 2. 92 %), July 2009, 2010 parliamentary elections, but didn't pass the threshold of representation.

On 24 May 2010, it became the 32nd largest Wikipedia by size and it passed the 100, 000 articles threshold.

Nowadays in the UK they fall under Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 1965 ( as it will be renamed by section 2 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 which is not yet in force ; currently the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 ) and subsequent legislation to the present day such as The Friendly and Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1968 ( Audit Exemption ) ( Amendment ) Order 2006-Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 265 ( which increased the audit exemption threshold level for industrial and provident societies to £ 5. 6m ) and the Legislative Reform ( Industrial and Provident Societies and Credit Unions ) Order 2011-Statutory Instrument 2011 No. 2687 which increased the maximum shareholding limit, changed the date of submission of the annual return, permitted children to be members, and allows the publication of unaudited interim accounts.