Choosing the scheme to use in a particular design depends on what types of faults need to be tolerated such as temporary or permanent, single or multiple point failures, and the constraints on area, performance, and power.
With those multiple tiers come multiple points of failure that could be abused, leading to massive privacy breaches.
Isn't Gmail supposed to have multiple points of failure?
Government procurement is notoriously inefficient, especially with regard to military contracts, because there are multiple points of failure.
Jensen (1993) highlights the multiple points of failure in corporate internal control mechanisms from the selection of the Board of Directors, to valuation practices.
There are multiple points of failure in this arrangement, and it is not alone.
For reliability problems entailing multiple design points, failure probability can be estimated by the multi-point first-order reliability method (FORM), which gives the probability of the union of approximate events.
A main advantage of the method is its ability to determine the most critical locations for placing multiple point loads that cause the beam's plastic failure.
The crisis is really a series of structural problems, with multiple points of health system failure, ineffective government oversight at the DEA and FDA, and an insurance industry that prefers to fund pills instead of healthier, more effective, but costlier ways to treat pain.
The score takes in to account eight adverse factors: age > 50 years (5 points), female gender (5 points), multiple organ failure (MOF) (7 points), neoplasia (4 points), > 24 h of evolution (4 points), non-colonic origin (4 points), generalized peritonitis (6 points), with purulent (6 points) or fecaloid (12 points) character.
An investigation concluded that a series of checks and processes were not followed and there was a "failure of adequate identification and checks at multiple points".
