As systems have grown more complex, the consequences of their unreliable behavior have become severe in terms of cost, effort, lives, etc., and the interest in assessing system reliability and the need for improving the reliability of products and systems have become very important.
Evaluations of the burden of childhood lead (Pb) exposure predate those of prenatal MeHg exposure and have been more complex, including consequences of IQ loss in outcomes of reduced quality of life and societal costs, such as remedial education costs, and increased criminal justice and health care costs (Glotzer et al. 1995; Muennig 2009).
The situation is more complex for economic consequences, with a greater spread in the median values, less consistency between the two assessment types and a shift toward higher severity values across the risk portfolio.
The Greek situation may be even more complex as a consequence of the peculiarities of the Greek National Health System (NHS) [ 18- 21].
Instead, the dependence is more complex, as a consequence of the tradeoff between increasing mutation rates and fixation times.
Nowadays, this has become much more complex as a consequence of the global transportation networks of raw materials and processed food products.
Attachment to, and competition for, territory is common to all animals – the principal distinction being that human territorial attachments have historically resulted in more complex, and usually bloodier, consequences.
Poor access to medical clinics may result in people with simple health problems not consulting a health professional and subsequently developing more complex conditions with irreversible consequences [ 7].
Although there were several items about the controversial area of 'transplant tourism' (n = 9) more complex procedures and possible consequences, such as novel, drug-resistant infections that might be introduced by returning medical tourists (n = 2), were not well-represented overall in the dataset.
These changes show how corporate governance is becoming more complex, and with complexity, there are unintended consequences.
