When the length of the repeat surpasses a critical threshold, symptoms of the disorder appear and they increase in likelihood and severity with further length.
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For such a test, the amount of radioactive plutonium in a nuclear bomb is reduced to under a critical threshold for an explosive nuclear chain reaction.
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This steam also helps keep the temperature inside the vault chamber below the critical threshold, which is the point at which information on paper documents is destroyed.
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By re-expressing the critical threshold as a function of the gamma exponent for a scale-free network, we can draw a couple of important conclusions regarding scale-free network robustness.
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"This suggests that Alzheimer's disease has a presymptomatic phase, where lesions have appeared in the brain but have not reached the critical threshold for cognitive declines to appear,"
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Definitive proof of this deficiency, however, appeared 20 centuries later, when speeds and volumes of traffic reached critical thresholds and analysis of large numbers of data became computerized.
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Issa believes that " the science community does not agree to the extent of the problem or the critical threshold of when this problem is truly catastrophic ."
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Teilhard imagines a critical threshold, the Omega Point, in which mankind will have reached its highest point of complexification ( socialization ) and thus its highest point of consciousness.
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Geochemical evidence indicates that oxygen levels in the oceans and atmosphere crossed several critical thresholds as early as 900 million years ago and again close to the Cambrian period.
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Within the next 600 million years from the present, the concentration of CO2 will fall below the critical threshold needed to sustain C3 photosynthesis : about 50 parts per million.
