• More accurately focus scarce fault identification resources on those portions of a software system most in need of it. • Estimate and forecast the risk of exposure to residual faults in a software system during operation, and develop risk and safety criteria to guide the release of a software system to fielded use. • Estimate the efficiency of test suites in detecting residual faults. • Estim...

BACKGROUND The presence of minimal residual disease detected by polymerase chain reaction techniques prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has proven to be an independent prognostic factor for poor outcome in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. DESIGN AND METHODS The aim of this study was to ascertain whether the presence of minimal residual disease detected by m...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND The main purpose of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the frequency of HPV infection in patients with residual or recurrent CIN. METHODS 797 consecutive patients with CIN, treated with conization, were included. In 38 patients with residual or recurrent CIN in whom reconization was performed, infection with high-risk HPV types was analyzed. RESULTS Reconization was...

The etymology of the term risk and its legal qualification and definitions are reported in this article; decription of the various traits of the term risk used in food safety management (acceptable risk, current risk, emerging risk, crude risk, unrestricted risk, perceived risk, real risk, residual risk, reduced risk, baseline risk, serious risk, major technological risk, etc.) are presented an...

This paper studies Value at Risk (VaR) bounds for sums of stochastically dependent random variables, i.e. portfolios of correlated financial assets. The bounds hold under no restrictions on the dependence or on the marginal distributions of returns. An improvement of the bounds is given for positive (quadrant) dependent rvs. Both sets of bounds are computed for portfolios of 6 international ind...

UNLABELLED In a sample of 1358 women and 858 men, > or = 60 yr of age who have been followed-up for up to 15 yr, it was estimated that the mortality-adjusted residual lifetime risk of fracture was 44% for women and 25% for men. Among those with BMD T-scores < or = -2.5, the risks increased to 65% in women and 42% in men. INTRODUCTION Risk assessment of osteoporotic fracture is shifting from r...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Treatment with statins reduces the rate of cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, but residual risk persists. At least part of that risk may be attributable to atherogenic dyslipidemia characterized by low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (≤40 mg/dL) and high triglycerides (triglycerides≥150 mg/dL). METHODS We studied subjects with stroke or transient ischemic...

UNLABELLED Triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive subtype, represents 15% of invasive breast tumors. This prospective study investigated whether early changes in (18)F-FDG tumor uptake during neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) can predict outcomes. METHODS Twenty (M0) patients underwent (18)F-FDG PET/CT at baseline and after the second cycle. NAC was continued irrespective of PET results. ...

A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel study was conducted in adult females to evaluate the efficacy andsafety of a combination of cimetidine 300 mg orally and metoclopramide 10 or 20 mg intravenously in reducing pre-operative residual gastric volume and raising gastric pH. The effect of preoperative metoclopramide on postoperative nausea and vomiting was also investigated. Ora...

background occupational insecticidal poisoning (oip) is a global phenomenon, which is even more prevalent among indoor residual spray-workers and this can pose a serious threat to their health. objectives this study aimed to assess spray-workers&apos; management of insecticide risk indicators and occupational insecticidal poisoning. materials and methods an analytical cross-sectional survey was...