Because many prostate cancers are believed to have a low probability of spreading elsewhere in the body, many experts believe that widespread use of P.S.A. often leads to more aggressive therapy than some men require.
"Even if you have a low probability of something going wrong," Mr. deFur said, "if you operate long enough, hard enough and fast enough, then chances are, something is going to get out".
The neutron-induced reactions commonly employed for detecting slow neutrons have a low probability of occurrence once the neutron energy is high.
The study concluded, "Fiscal adjustments beginning in a slack economy (like the current situation in the United States) appear to have a low probability of success".
But during the trial this year Thomas Roth, a senior company executive who was in charge of cementing operations when the spill occurred, acknowledged that because of the well design and other factors, "the cement placement was going to be a job that would have a low probability of success".
Thomas Roth, a senior Halliburton executive who was in charge of cementing operations at the time of the spill, acknowledged that because of the well design and other factors, "the cement placement was going to be a job that would have a low probability of success".
But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.
Diffuse lesions have a low probability of malignancy.
Visual inspections are known to have a low probability of detection.
Like most other organisms, fish have a low probability of leaving a fossil record.
The spectrometer contains an axial magnetic field gradient, so electrons are efficiently admitted but have a low probability for escaping back through the entrance after backscattering.
