Sentence examples for an absolute event from inspiring English sources

He says black holes never form an absolute event horizon ie, a boundary from which nothing can escape.

She calls the attack an "absolute event," borrowing a term from French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose own work has often delved into the subject of the hyper-real.

Multiple observations are necessary because disclosure is not an absolute event; we know well that different factors influence disclosure across different targets [ 12, 25, 30].

People in the 1991-3 subcohort alive at one year after the incident event experienced a lower unadjusted 12 year all cause mortality compared with patients in the 1984-7 subcohort, with a relative risk reduction of 28% (16% to 38%) (table 3), equivalent to an absolute event reduction of 7.6% (4% to 11%) (table 4).

From this, we estimate an absolute event rate of 25% in the control group for the composite of death or readmission, and have designed our study to detect an approximately 25% relative reduction (i.e., a 6.25% absolute reduction) in the readmission rate in the intervention group.

Results In the 1991-3 cohort, 28 day survivors of acute myocardial infarction had a 7.6% absolute event reduction (95% confidence interval 4% to 11%) or a 28% lower relative risk reduction (16% to 38%), unadjusted for risk of death, over 12 years after the incident admission compared with the 1984-7 cohort, similar to the survival of the 1988-90 cohort.

Similar findings have been observed in other trials of intensive treatment in patients with established type 2 diabetes (5, 22, 32), indicating that in the presence of a relatively low absolute event rate, the effect of cardiovascular risk reduction takes some time to translate into a lower rate of hard events.

This was the "absolute event", an inevitable reaction to "insufferable" American power.

Where there is a sufficiency of information, absolute event rates can be used to compare benefit and harm of rare events.

As a result, estimates of absolute event risk drawn from these database studies are likely to reflect more realistically the expectations for the population at large than do event rates drawn from randomized clinical trials.

The difference in absolute event rates expressed as a frequency is equivalent to a number needed to treat to prevent an event (if a positive number), or a number needed to harm (if a negative number).