Sentence examples for risk density from inspiring English sources

Wind speed versus risk density curves were generated by multiplying values for each data point in the vulnerability curves to the probability density function of the hazard.

A traditional approach to assessing risk (represented here by the black horizontal lines) at a particular time might be to take a vertical 'snapshot' of risk density.

Regardless of the underlying biological mechanisms through which SES may affect density, and hence cancer risk, density affects the sensitivity of screen-film mammography [ 14, 15].

This might be used to prescribe screening frequency or indeed modality, since in addition to risk, density affects the sensitivity and the potential lead time of mammographic screening (Chiu et al, 2010).

Besides being an independent marker of breast cancer risk, density affects mammographic sensitivity by the "masking effect" and is associated with increased risk of interval cancers [ 2, 5, 6].

It could also be used to investigate issues such as whether there is a threshold level of risk density at which people develop long-term back pain (thereby facilitating intervention before a critical threshold is reached), or explain why some people seek healthcare while others do not, although their experience of pain may be similar.

Mammograms classified in the reader-specific upper quartile of percentage density, Wolfe's P2 and DY patterns, or Tabár's IV and V patterns, were categorized as high-risk density patterns and the remaining mammograms as low-risk density patterns.

Likewise, the number of women categorized with a high-risk density pattern differed between methods of assessment.

Reader 1 (regardedrded significantly more as having a high-risk density pattern (D3 and D4) compared with Reader 2 (R2) (155 (40%) versus 109 (28%) women).

When high-risk density patterns were combined odds ratios became more uniform among the readers but also among all three methods.

Women who had their first child after their 25th birthday were more likely to have high-risk density patterns according to all four readings.