So what level of bleeding is an acceptable risk if patients, on average, live longer?
My job is risk assessment, and helping clients define their acceptable risk profile, at the end of the day.
FORBES: What Is It That A Lawyer Does That Takes So Many Hours?
"The right approach to public health is to say it's incumbent on any new drug to show it is beneficial and has acceptable risk, " says Steven Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and one of the first to note the excesses in cancer death.
While slightly smaller forces were capable of prevailing without a significant increase in risk in the base case of the analysis, a larger force was judged necessary to conduct these operations with acceptable risk when either enemy chemical weapons were used or shorter warning times were played.
Local people and politicians are bitterly opposed to the programme, but the Home Office said those taking part would be deemed to be an acceptable low risk.
Other institutions, such as commercial banks and investment banks, in the U.S. and around the world, based what they thought was an acceptable distribution of risk in their portfolios on the ratings these agencies gave various securities.
FORBES: Media Parrot Obama Financial Crisis Campaign Propaganda
Reduce the cost and risk to acceptable levels, so that you could get underway.
FORBES: How the Most Successful People Motivate Themselves (And Stay Motivated)
Tofacitinib is known to have serious side effects, but it is entering a market where risk is acceptable.
We also have an Access program that works to ensure that the treatments OneWorld Health develops are available and acceptable to at-risk patients at an affordable cost via private and public sector markets.
FORBES: Can Non-Profit Drug Companies Cure Diseases of Poverty?
We must accept that harnessing the power of Big Data for greater situational awareness and faster reaction to threats is the foundation of an offensive approach, enabling businesses to manage risk to acceptable levels and ultimately put the balance of control back firmly in the hands of security practitioners.
FORBES: It's Time For The Security Industry To Step Up And Play Offense
The remaining investment may produce less return, but the risk is more acceptable.
ECONOMIST: Using alchemy to turn high-risk equity into bonds
Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.
She gets verbose when asked about corporate culture at Valve, about how she's never worked at a company where risk and failure are so acceptable -- even encouraged.
ENGADGET: Valve's first hardware beta starting by next year, wearable computing still far off
Similarly, risk concentrations that might be acceptable at a single institution in a period of economic expansion could be dangerous if they existed at a large number of institutions simultaneously.
GDP, but the budgetary risk next year would be just acceptable.
ECONOMIST: The German economy: Holding steady, just, maybe—and maybe not | The
Under accounting rules, Enron's treatment of these transactions probably would have been acceptable if they involved a genuine transfer of risk to a third party (ie one independent of Enron).
They carefully define trust and craft guidelines for acceptable behavior based on their level of comfort with risk and fluidity.
Depending on the results of both checks, the system would assign a risk score to air travelers -- acceptable, unknown, or unacceptable.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime
Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).
"The design of the proposed flood risk management scheme is, on balance, considered to be acceptable, with regard to the impact upon the conservation area and the setting of adjacent listed buildings, " the council said.
BBC: Permanent flood defences approved for Upton-upon-Severn
"There is a general political sentiment that it is not acceptable to be bailing out a country, and thereby putting European taxpayers' money at risk, to basically protect Russian depositors in Cypriot banks, " he said.
But, if hypocrisy is acceptable in the office, the same does not apply in battle: when lives are at risk, the armed forces argue, an officer's judgment should not be clouded by lust or love.
应用推荐