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Once prices shoot above that threshold, the instructions read, central bankers are to go into action to determine if an interest rate hike is needed to rein in an overheating economy.

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The region has only ever crossed the case rate threshold, reports the Union-Tribune.

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Gavin Newsom has ordered counties that meet a minimum threshold of new coronavirus cases – including San Diego – to keep schools closed.

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Today, some 30 million people have taken consumer DNA tests, a threshold experts have called a tipping point.

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A person can’t be infected by inhaling one or two viruses — they need to be exposed to a certain concentration of the virus before it can gain a foothold, though experts still aren’t sure what this threshold, called the infectious dose, is.

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It also meets the usual statistical threshold for claiming the discovery of a new particle.

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Heterogeneity may be hard to estimate, but it’s also an important factor in determining what the herd immunity threshold really is.

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On the other hand, let those mechanisms get going, and beyond some threshold, the interwoven ecological and developmental systems they generate tend to yield more and more species with greater maximum complexity.

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In a situation where you’ve mapped certain keywords to a page with multiple images, the overoptimization threshold is different.

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Scientists call that share of people needed to form such a wall the herd-immunity threshold.

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