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They've crossed a brain threshold much earlier, that perhaps not at age 22 or 20, but even by age 15 or 16 you can begin to see the trajectory for development is quite different at the level of the brain, not at the level of behavior.

For 900 points, I'd agree to go out on a date, and I wouldn't even consider any kind of relationship before somebody had crossed the 1,500 point threshold.

Because remember, in my scoring system, they have to reach a minimum threshold of 700 points, and none of them have done that.

On the vertical axis we have the immune response generated, and that dashed line indicates the protection threshold.

We are on the threshold of extraordinary advances, born of our drive to unveil the mysteries of life.

The E recognizers will lower their threshold and they see some sloppy thing, could be an E. Ordinarily you wouldn't think so, but we're expecting an E, it's good enough, and yeah, I've seen an E, and then apple says, "Yeah, I've seen an Apple."

But the really important term in this equation is the influence that people have on one another, and in particular, something called "the negativity threshold."

Now, the negativity threshold, you can think of as how annoying the husband can be before the wife starts to get really pissed off, and vice versa.

So I would have thought that perhaps the most successful relationships were ones where there was a really high negativity threshold.

The best couples, or the most successful couples, are the ones with a really low negativity threshold.

Now of course, it takes a bit more than just a low negativity threshold and not compromising to have a successful relationship.

This percentage is called the threshold.

The threshold depends on many variables: It depends on the germ's characteristics, and those of the immune response that the vaccine generates.

If the percentage of the population in a vaccinated community is below this threshold number, the disease will begin to spread more freely and may generate an outbreak of this disease within the community.

The number of people vaccinated, in many communities around the world, fell below this threshold.

And as Angelou and Einstein experienced, there’s often no threshold of accomplishment that puts these feelings to rest.

We stand today on the threshold of the post-antibiotic era, in the earliest days of a time when simple infections such as the one Joe had will kill people once again.

Now, the harder you push against the needle, the closer you get to the nociceptor threshold.

Push hard enough, and you'll cross that threshold and the nociceptors fire, telling your body to stop doing whatever you're doing.

But the pain threshold isn't set in stone.

Certain chemicals can tune nociceptors, lowering their threshold for pain.

When cells are damaged, they and other nearby cells start producing these tuning chemicals like crazy, lowering the nociceptors' threshold to the point where just touch can cause pain.

And two enzymes called COX-1 and COX-2 convert this arachidonic acid into prostaglandin H2, which is then converted into a bunch of other chemicals that do a bunch of things, including raise your body temperature, cause inflammation and lower the pain threshold.

Way number two: if you push with a force below the threshold force eventually, the ketchup will start to flow.

But most will show two telltale properties: sudden thinning at a threshold force, and more gradual thinning after a small force is applied for a long time.

You're at the threshold of the Sistine Chapel.

And at some point, there's a threshold, and automatically, the animal switches to swimming.

Grid parity is understood as that line, that threshold, below which renewable electricity is cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels.

That threshold is a little bit like the difference between 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 33 degrees Fahrenheit, or zero and one Celsius.

At the threshold, the priestess pauses, claims her innocence one last time, then enters the chamber never to be seen again by the Roman people.

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