This implies that presence of these bacteria in the environment, even in small numbers, poses a serious health risk to the population.
While challenges in quality measurement associated with small-number phenomena are not new, 6 7 it is worth considering how small numbers pose challenges in this specific proposed initiative: the emerging policy is to review 2000 hospital deaths every year.
Instead, DeepPeep starts by posing a small number of sample queries, "so we can then use that to build up our understanding of the databases and choose which words to search".
"Today's disclosure is a reminder about the dangers posed when a small number of companies like Facebook or the credit bureau Equifax are able to accumulate so much personal data about individual Americans without adequate security measures.
The resulting algorithm, which we term multiple activity model annealed particle filtering (MAM-APF), is able to dynamically vary the scope of its search effort, using a small number of particles to explore latent pose spaces and a large number of particles to explore the full pose space.
In some instances, contamination post-cooking or post-pasteurization may not pose a health risk, if only a small number of microbes are present.
Senior civilian American officials in Iraq, who have privately raised concerns about security at some munitions sites, say even a small number of poorly guarded sites would pose a risk to American forces and the reconstruction effort.
The proliferation of new instruments, such as credit derivatives, and new market participants, such as hedge funds, intermediated by a small number of large global investment banks, poses new questions about financial stability.
Sergeant Schrumpf said that while most Iraqi soldiers had posed little danger, a small number appeared to be well trained and calm under fire.
The New York Times reported last month that this appeared to have happened in a small number of cases because of the difficulties posed by globalized communications in determining whether a phone call or e-mail message was truly "international".
As part of its efforts to halt a string of nine killings of livery drivers this year, the Police Department plans to have undercover detectives pose as drivers in a small number of livery cars equipped with hidden cameras, officials said yesterday.
