According to the model results, the posterior probability of a fatal cancer catastrophe (C 6) improved greatly during the ten years of continuous exposure; however, it has a sharp increasing tendency in probability from 3.6 × 10−07 to 1.1 × 10−4 as shown in Fig. 5a that is almost a 3000-fold increase, which raises serious concerns.
BP is facing another potentially huge compensation bill from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill after a class action law suit was launched in Mexico for the environmental catastrophe caused in its territory by the fatal disaster.
Crisis is thought to be initiated by telomere dysfunction, genetic catastrophe and/or fatal oxidative damage.
In his anecdotes of catastrophe and the fatal mindset underlying each one, his book is strongly reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul's furious, reform-minded An Area of Darkness which ultimately changed Indians' minds about themselves.
If the Great Depression of the 1930s taught us anything, it was that a retreat into the national idyll is fatal because it turns the threatened catastrophe into a reality - the collapse of the global economy.
CNS injury ranges in severity from subtle changes in personality, behaviour and cognitive function to fatal brain injury - the cerebral catastrophe.
The records show that a lawyer for the company pleaded with officials, saying that if they brought disciplinary action, the consequences "would be fatal to the business" and trigger a "catastrophe".
Even when they're not fatal, bike crashes can become financial and legal catastrophes, said Chicago-based personal injury lawyer Brendan Kevenides, whose firm specializes in bicycle advocacy.
The company's reserves are at its lowest and unforeseen catastrophes, though they may not be fatal, but could cause a serious set back.
That was perhaps its fatal flaw: economic steps taken for political reasons tend to end in catastrophe.
