Based on a study of nearly 200 Vietnamese families affected by another infectious illness, the bacterial disease leprosy, he and his colleagues have identified a single gene as a strong risk factor for leprosy in children under 16 years old.
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Another poll indicated that a majority of Germans saw the European single market as a risk to their living and working conditions.
Each vehicle seems to be dedicated to a single country, so risk is not spread.
In addition to competition, reliance on a single customer can increase risk.
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There has long been a deposit cap in place to guard against too much risk being concentrated in a single bank.
Mr. Wassberger's Arial won't be staking any players in One Drop because the buy-in is too much to risk on a single event.
Although we're always keen on new military tech (hey, it gives us something to write about), we're gonna have to side with the Doubting Thomases on this one, because the impending "ROBO-ONE in the Space" satellite is simply too important to risk even a single stray laser strike.
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But a euro-area banking union would risk a fragmentation of Europe's single market that might leave Britain's financial industry isolated.
This increases their risk exposure to a single company as workers at Enron discovered.
Yet, the assumption of Cyprus not being a systemic risk rests on a single expectation: that it stays in the euro zone.
This is a problem particularly for the elderly, who are often rendered single by the death of a spouse and whose risk of health or domestic disaster runs high.
Apparently, while electronic devices pose a risk to safety, running an screen system to every single seat poses no risk!
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They would rather ask more from the vast majority of Americans and put our recovery at risk than close even a single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy.
Today, it's a billion-dollar-a-year risk--perhaps the single biggest for the retail industry.
Certain epidemiologic studies (mainly from a single group in Sweden) indicate an elevated risk of glioma (the most malignant type of brain cancer) in long-term users of cell phones.
Andrew Stumpff, an outspoken critic of the ESOP model who teaches at University of Michigan Law School, says it's bad enough to risk your retirement savings in a single company.
Downing Street have rejected suggestions by the European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso that the UK's negotiating position on financial regulation represented a "risk to the integrity of the single market".
Building condos also takes longer than a single-family home, leaving the developer at risk should the market sour before completion.
Similarly, risk concentrations that might be acceptable at a single institution in a period of economic expansion could be dangerous if they existed at a large number of institutions simultaneously.
Risk and uncertainty are really two ends of a single spectrum.
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Some providers of single-country ETFs address concentration risk by using a "modified market weighting" to limit their exposure to a country's giant stocks, or simply by focusing on stocks of smaller companies.
Malnutrition is associated with over a third of children's deaths and is the single most important risk factor in many diseases (see chart).
The unbalanced nature of rich-country growth, and the world's dependence on a continuation of America's booming stockmarket, remains the single biggest risk for emerging and emerged economies alike.
The cross-selling at Wells ensures that it is not highly dependent on any single product and its geographic reach reduces the risk from a local recession or the collapse of an industrial sector.
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The cable industry reckons that, if it buys from a range of suppliers, it will never risk being captured by any single one.
Splitting that line into high- and low- end products, rather than simply cutting the price of older models creates new risks, even as it reduces the risk Apple runs by building such an enormous business around a single product.
In theory, this setup allows the owner to raise cash and hedge much of his single-stock risk, while claiming he hasn't made a currently taxable sale of the shares.
He recommended high-risk patients should be taught how to cough effectively, starting with a single cough every one to two seconds in bouts of five coughs.
Those who have a single copy of the bad gene still suffer from very elevated cholesterol and a high risk of heart attack, and might also use 301012.
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