The agency's alerts range from warnings of Madoff-style Ponzi schemes to "pump and dump" operations intended to temporarily inflate a stock price.
The alerts range from a "request" (say, you're at home recuperating from a broken leg and you need one of your friends to pick up some chicken soup), right up to "emergency," where you think you may have had something slipped into your drink, or you're worried someone might be following you. .
Overall levels of interobserver agreement for baseline rate, tracing quality assessment, frequencies of accelerations and decelerations, and alerts ranged from 45% to 99% and were highest for baseline rate and signal loss and lowest for acceleration and deceleration counts.
Examples (spoiler alert!) range from small moments to an epic showdown over race, justice and sin in which Scout's father, the saintly Atticus Finch of Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," is revealed, as David Gushee writes, as a "polite racist".
The alert rates range from a low of about 0.50 alerts per month for ProtonPumpInhibitors to a high of 2.67 alerts per month for ADHD.
From February 8 to February 9, both the estimated numbers of ILI visits and the posterior probability of alert reach the highest range.
Specifications of the HDBT-990 are as follows; Bluetooth V2.1 + EDR Audible Caller ID Incoming Call Vibration Alert Out of Range Vibration Alert Up to 4 hours talk time, and 160 hours standby time.
The five-point alert system, ranging from blue to red, was scrapped in 2011 and replaced by one that is supposed to focus on specific credible threats although America's State Department, like its British cousin, still has a habit of warning citizens about generalised concerns.It is not clear how useful this information is, but I suspect the answer is "not very".
My colleague, Alex Perry, from the BBC Future Media News product team, explains more about the workings of push notifications, and the changes in our content production system which have made it easier and quicker for our journalists to send alerts to a range of platforms simultaneously, in a post on the BBC Internet blog, where you can add your comments and questions.
The alerts tried out ranged from a short message simply stating, "Focus needed," to more descriptive messages like "residential neighborhood ahead with children playing".
The NHS has an internal alerts system, which ranges from green, the least severe, through amber and red, which means there is pressure on beds but the hospital has not had to close, to black, which indicates there are more patients than there is capacity to treat them.
