As more force is applied, collagen fibres straighten until they reach a critical orbreakpoint, at which time the tissue tears.
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Also, it has to be checked that two segments on both sides of a fixedbreakpointare never merged.
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A fixedbreakpoint, which may not be moved later in the piecewise modeling phase, permanently divides the time series into fixed segments.
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The pressure "breakpoint" below which resistance begins to vary inversely is approximately 40 mm of mercury.
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A full-stop or semi-colon is considered to be abreakpointin the text.
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There is nobreakpointat which the reweighting starts or stops.
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In phase 3, removal of two successive points is considered to produce a fixedbreakpoint; two break points are set at time instances 5 and 14.
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Another possible criterion for setting a fixedbreakpointis a simple heuristic: if the length of the removed segment exceeds some predefined threshold, a break point is set.
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At each iteration of the algorithm, thebreakpointthat is least necessary in the sense of modeling error is moved to a place where the benefit is greatest.
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But below thebreakpointthere is a large effect of diurnal amplitude, and the effect of amplitude increases linearly with a decrease in mean temperature.
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The system takes the conjunction as abreakpointand comes out with inference for the sequence of words up to that position in the sentence.
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Therefore, 16 seems to be the logicalbreakpointrather than 18.
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That seems to be the make orbreakpoint.
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Of these, 13 applied for early voluntary retirement and 10 to leave at their optional eight-yearbreakpoint.
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A naturalbreakpointin traffic levels will be an appropriate point for the dualling to start.
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