Wiese went on to buy supermarket chain Shoprite, the first in an audacious series of deals that have gained him a reputation as a serial risk-taker and a fortune that makes him South Africa's fifth richest man.
Yet the picture he draws is more one of serial risk-takers than of sleepwalkers; the most calculating risk-taker of all being Germany, which leads back to the question of responsibility.
As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority in Roper v. Simmons, a 2005 decision that banned the death penalty for juveniles, studies were confirming what "any parent knows": Adolescents are, in fact, serial risk-takers who often give into peer pressure.
Wilson discussed the use of serial testing for risk estimation/reclassification based on estimates of prior probability.
The FHS has routinely collected longitudinal data over the adult life span of each participant in its 6 constituent cohorts, with extensive information on serial measures of risk factors, subclinical disease, and clinical outcomes, including CVD; lung, blood, and neurological conditions (stroke and dementia); and cause-specific mortality.
Interestingly, the serial trend of residual risk showed that the residual risks of all three viruses increased in 2009/2010 compared to the previous study period (2008/2009).
Therefore, it has been recommended to monitor renal function in all patients at risk with serial measurements of serum creatinine (sCr) following contrast media (CM) exposure [ 1, 2].
The best known is the Bogalusa Heart Study, which studied children into adulthood with serial measurements of CVD risk factors to study associations and predictions.
62 The ability of CMR to measure ventricular volumes, mass and function accurately, reproducibly and on serial studies without significant risk to the patient is a major strength of CMR for clinical trials.
In the ICU setting, there is instead a considerable advantage in blood sampling, allowing for serial measurements, reducing the risk of making an erroneous decision based on one single sample.
31 While serial casting runs the risk of skin irritation, pressure wounds and permanent tissue damage, 32 this is less likely to occur in healthy and normally sensate children.
