Highlight report: False positives in genotoxicity testing

Drug testing welfare recipients--false positives, false negatives, unanticipated opportunities.

Substance abuse and dependence are among the most common psychiatric disorders among pregnant and parenting women. These disorders among welfare recipients have attracted special concern. Chemical testing has been proposed to identify illicit drug use in this population. This analysis scrutinizes the potential value of drug testing, using recent data from the Women's Employment Study and the Na...

False positives in cancer epidemiology.

BACKGROUND A recent attempt to estimate the false-positive rate for cancer epidemiology studies is based on agents in International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) category 3 (agent not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans) in the IARC Monographs Program. METHODS The estimation method is critiqued regarding biases caused by its reliance on the IARC classification criteria for...

Highlight report: Metabolomics in hepatotoxicity testing

Minimizing false positives in differential display.

Dealing with False Positives in Intrusion Detection

Many of today's Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) suffer from high rates of false positives [1]. False positives are a severe problem because investigating them takes time and energy. Even worse, if the load of false positives is too high, security personnel might become negligent and start to ignore alarms. Improving this situation is difficult [1, 2]. One possible solution is to use highly s...