Contrary to the optimistic forecasts, existing until 2008 and despite the incorporation of the vaccine into the Greek National Immunization Program, six years later, the percentage of HPV vaccination coverage in Greece remains disappointingly low.
Today, however, some real estate specialists regard the 666 Fifth Avenue transaction as a textbook example of the risky practices that were prevalent before the current credit squeeze, when many loans were based not on the actual cash flow of the building from existing rents but rather on optimistic projections of what the space might command once those leases expired.
It should be kept in mind that this scenario is based on the simplistic, and in places optimistic, assumption that existing trends in cancer incidence rates and survival will continue unabated for the next 30 years.
Indeed, the reactor is based on a very optimistic extrapolation of the existing data.
The most optimistic projections from all existing antiretroviral programs are that they would reach 800,000 people in the third world by 2005, Dr. Kim said.
Most of the world's oil analysts, he believes, are far too optimistic about how long existing fields will last, the prospects for new discoveries, technology's ability to unlock new sources and to extend the life of existing ones, and so on.
The model validation shows that four critical model outputs (average duration of symptom onset to treatment, detection rate, cure rate, and death rate) were reasonably close to existing available data, erring towards more optimistic outcomes than are actually reported.
This study adds to existing evidence by indicating the presence of optimistic biases in comparative risk judgements for various oral health hazards among young adults from the general population.
Findings from the model simulation suggest that some critical outputs of the model are reasonably close to the existing data, although they tended to be somewhat optimistic.
