potential risk

collocation in English

meanings of potentialand risk

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk /pəˈten.ʃəl/ us /poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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risk
noun
uk /rɪsk/ us /rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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It then multiplies these potentialrisk scores by the pesticide's application rate to determine a final potentialrisk score.
Data are no. of veterans with potentialrisk factors.
If these indicators measure the potentialrisk of pesticides correctly, then larger application rates should result in larger potentialrisk scores.
These potentialrisk scores represent the best estimate of a pesticide's impact on the surrounding environment.
It ranks a pesticide's toxicity data to generate potentialrisk scores for beneficial organisms and humans.
Of the various potentialrisk factors, crowding has a strong and significant association with seropositivity.
Numbers, however, are still too small to permit afinalevaluation of this potentialrisk.
However, we decided not to use them as potentialrisk factors because of their causal ambiguity.
Survival analysis determined cumulative rates of psychiatric disorders and the impact of potentialrisk factors.
Twenty-one patients developed tetanus after other reported injuries or potentialrisk factors for exposure.
This makes a direct comparison of each indicator's potentialrisk scores meaningless.
Future analyses should examine how specific data inputs influence a pesticide risk indicator's potentialrisk score.
A further objective was to identify potentialrisk factors related to the occurrence of leptospirosis infection.
The highest potentialrisk scores generally went to methyl bromide applications.
A second weakness of the system was the limited reliability of information regarding potentialrisk factors.
There are also indications of a potentialrisk of infection to humans.
Potentialrisk factors were evaluated, such as family history, nutrition, exercise, smoking status, and alcohol consumption.
This reduces procedure time, potentialrisk of complications and facilitates complex interventions.
Until a consensus is reached, diet cannot be overlooked as a potentialrisk factor.
This does not mean, however, that they pose no potentialrisk to humans and shrimps.
Both household and individual data were gathered on potentialrisk factors or confounders.
The relatively small sample size also reduced the power to identify potentialrisk factors.
They included one very heavy smoker who had epilepsy, which constituted an even greater potentialrisk.
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