In the 1950s, to be simplistic and conservative, the world governing bodies decided to just draw in that line anyway, all the way down to zero, dictating that there was no threshold.
There was no minimum threshold for the dollar amount of invested assets required to participate.
All dose limits are presently determined by using the Linear No-Threshold dose hypothesis (LNT).
The Stanford academics used the first of those ideas - what's called a Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model.
The straight-line portion of these types of curves above Earth background has been the basis for the Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis, or LNT.
States with no districts below the threshold, such as Rio de Janeiro, were simply left out.
As we know from further research, there is no harm-free threshold at which you can smoke safely.
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Contributions below the threshold would no longer be deductible.
And he stressed that the existing threshold for a no-confidence vote would remain as a simple majority of 50% plus one.
The commission believes the cap and rise in the threshold will mean no-one will lose more than 30% of their assets paying for care.
As the author states, LNT may have some statistical validity above some threshold, but there is clearly a threshold below which no link to increased cancer is supportable.
"The data indicate that there are no substances above a health threshold that should generate any long-term health risks, including cancer, " Craig Postlewaite of the force readiness and health assurance office at the Department of Defense said.
The income threshold up to which no taxes were paid would rise substantially, but exemptions would be sharply curtailed.
On the other hand, Europe took an austerity route, but fared no better, and is on the threshold of an economic meltdown.
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The committee has concluded that there is no compelling evidence to indicate a dose threshold below which the risk of tumor induction is zero.
Sandy Baum, an economist at Skidmore College whose research laid the groundwork for the proposed rules, said the department's regulations set the bar very low but the judge had created an impossible threshold because "there is no one right measure, " she said.
They regarded Mozambique as a success story and had no wish to push it over the riot threshold.
One question I raised with Prof Jacobson was whether, using their methodology, you could say what the rates would have been if there were a threshold - if low doses had no effect.
"There is no doubt in my mind that he passes the threshold for a diagnosis of psychopathy, " he said.
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Others demur, either arguing that the court should have no jurisdiction over internal conflicts or that the criminal threshold should be higher in such cases.
In Nineveh, a key swing province in northern Iraq, 55 percent voted "no" -- below the two-thirds threshold that would have resulted in the measure's defeat.
After reporting concern about contamination, water quality tests performed by the Texas Railroad Commission found naturally-occurring levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, which exceeded the threshold limit for drinking water, but found no evidence to support a flaming water claim.
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This means that those S corporations and partnerships with receipts in excess of the threshold that previously qualified to use the cash method will no longer do so.
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There is no moral case for publicly funding personal tragedies when they have passed a certain threshold.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the material, the officials said the United States has lowered the threshold for information considered important enough to put suspicious individuals on a no-fly list or revoke their visas.
The report which was submitted to French President Nicolas Sarkozy late last month concluded that unless something changes, Iran will have passed the nuclear threshold by the end of 2009 and will become a nuclear power no later than 2011.
Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin (No. 634) are the other Facebook founders who crossed the the billion dollar threshold.
To prove that MTBE concentrations below the EPA's threshold still made water taste terrible, Summy unearthed documents like a 1983 Shell letter detailing that water was no longer drinkable where MTBE'S concentration was 7 to 15 parts per billion.
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