Many researchers worry however, that this device has a high error rate, which might limit its usefulness.
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Wells Fargo has formally disputed the audit report stating that its income calculation error rate is around 4.5%.
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Fingerprinting experts have long claimed that their error rate in matching prints is zero but without any supporting evidence.
Even then, the error rate for facial-recognition software has proved to be as high as 10% in tests.
Google also used the technology to cut the error rate on speech recognition in its latest Android mobile software.
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She said that the "23% error rate" indicated that, although "genetics is fundamental in exceptional longevity it's not the only thing".
Anti-Fraud Commissioner Algirdas Semeta pointed out that the the fact that the overall error rate remained below 4% should be welcomed.
The WarpDrive card helps to ensure high reliability with a management infrastructure offering extensive monitoring, including health, error rate and drive failure.
Besides the low error rate, Dr Kedes requires that the sequence be complete meaning that it includes at least 98% of the genome's base pairs.
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When Eve intercepts these tweaked photons, she can gather information on them while keeping the error rate she introduces just below a tolerable level.
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In the meantime, the use of a technique that may have an error rate as high as 20% raises a lot of legal questions.
In its FY 2006 Performance and Accountability Report, USDA reported that the Food Stamps program lowered its error rate (5.84%) for the seventh consecutive year.
The IRS claims that taxpayers who file online have an error rate of just 1% compared with 20% for taxpayers filing with a traditional paper return.
The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that JPM had the lowest error rate for the foreclosure reviews, performed by consultant Deloitte, of all the banks.
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It suggested 18 of those 44 were in a minimally conscious state the same error rate, around 40%, as Dr Andrews had found 13 years earlier in London.
They draw their conclusions from Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT).
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She noted, not only the lack of guns and weapons, but she asked if 90 percent of those questioned were neither given summons nor arrested, wasn't that a high error rate.
Medicare substantially improved its claims documentation, and reduced its error rate reporting in the Fee for Service portion of the program from 10.1% in FY 2004 to 5.2% in FY 2005.
Illinois's error rate was fractionally lower (66%) than average.
The researchers, led by Richard Kerensky of the University of Florida, found that, for example, with 16:1 compression, the error rate for the detection of calcification was 30% higher than for uncompressed images.
The study found the wireless network could measure breathing within 0.4 to 0.2 breaths per minute, an insignificant error rate given that most breathing monitors round to the nearest breath per minute, he says.
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In a report issued in 2008, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said it had sampled 138 CP 2000 notices and found that only seven were wrong which works out to a 5% error rate.
In the 1990s America's Supreme Court deemed it the responsibility of federal judges to insist that expert witnesses testify about the reliability of a forensic-scientific method only if the method in question has been tested so that the range of its error rate is known.
Instead, to judge by the most comprehensive study on the reliability of forensic evidence to date, the error rate is more than 10% in five categories of analysis, including fiber, paint and body fluids. (Meaning: When the expert says specimen X matches source Y, there's a 10% probability he's wrong.) DNA and fingerprints are more reliable but still not foolproof.
However, there is still one glaring problem that is plaguing IT performance at an extremely high rate: human error.
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The mobile HDVC system delivers high-definition visuals with MPEG4-AVC technology and features 360-degree full duplex stereo sound quality, stable connectivity with QoS, and rate control forward error correction.
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Some researchers have tried to use the regular rate at which error patterns appear in dog DNA as a kind clock to time their rise, but this has produced contradictory results.
In 2009, HMRC set itself a target of halving the rate of tax credit fraud and error from 9% to 5% by March 2011 and diverted around 400 extra staff to help with the effort.
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One is IRIS OHYAMA a home products maker and on-line marketer whose corporate culture encourages trial and error and whose product line has been changing at a rate of 20% of items each year.
With the unemployment rate still above 9%, and federal debt at record levels, this latest error by the monetary authorities is likely to be the most costly since the Great Inflation of the 1970s.
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