Even the term "autoimmune disease" may be imprecise: we don't know in every case whether autoimmune dysfunction is the cause of the disease, rather than, say, a consequence.
When multiple experts give different risk evaluations to one failure mode, which may be imprecise and uncertain, the traditional RPN is not a sufficient tool for risk evaluation.
Conventional symptoms (e.g., frequent crying, weight loss, thoughts of death) used to assess for depression in these patients may be imprecise because these symptoms are also present in preparatory grief and as a part of the normal dying process.
Though the characterization may be imprecise — Mr. Wilson comes from a working-class family of immigrants — it makes for a better rallying cry than accounting reform, audit expansion, or the other nuts and bolts of the comptroller's office.
In this paper we present an evidential reasoning framework which applies Dempster Shafer Theory and its variant Dezert Smarandache Theory to aid decision makers in making decisions where the knowledge available may be imprecise, conflicting and uncertain.
Shields may be imprecise and overwrought, but I found myself thinking of his useful skepticism while reading Chang-Rae Lee's new novel, "The Surrendered" (Riverhead; $26.95) — a book that is commendably ambitious, extremely well written, powerfully moving in places, and, alas, utterly conventional.
None of them had any previous knowledge of the house's floor plan, and they were further jostled by the awareness that they were possibly minutes away from ending the costliest manhunt in American history; as a result, some of their recollections — on which this account is based — may be imprecise and, thus, subject to dispute.
That may be imprecise, however, because industrial Kobe is so different from the rural communities, many of whose inhabitants are pensioners, that have been devastated this time.So far, the economic concerns in a country with one of the worst debt levels in the world have been serious, but not panic-inducing.
This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise.
These maneuvers may be imprecise and leave behind some degree of residual defect.
