The DSMB meets periodically to review the safety results to date (Merck is blind to these data) to be certain that patients on Vytorin are not experiencing any unexpected safety issues.
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Paul Swartz, the commission's executive director, said in a statement that "we would literally be flying blind" without the stream gauge data.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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Third, and most importantly, without good data policymakers are essentially flying blind, lacking solid knowledge of the Americans they are seeking to assist.
But one emerging data stream that has left brands flying blind is that of the user-generated photo.
By adopting a Big Data model, the analysis of massive data sets will create actionable information, eliminate blind spots where threats can lurk undetected and, ultimately, help to shrink our windows of vulnerability.
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TEDx Silicon Valley featured speakers ranging from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal founder Peter Thiel to neo-geographer Di-Ann Eisnor (she makes maps that reflect social data) and Victor Tsaran, who is blind and runs Yahoo!'
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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In general, the signature-based security products used to defend enterprise networks, such as firewalls, anti-virus products and intrusion detection systems are increasingly blind to modern attack methods, which are increasingly embedded into application data or designed to self-mutate in order to evade detection.
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Instead of blind investing in the stock market, I downloaded fifty years of stock data and started statistically modeling what happens in hundreds of different situations.
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Safety data for KYNAMRO are based on pooled results from four Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials with a total of 390 patients of which 261 patients received weekly subcutaneous injections of 200 mg of KYNAMRO and 129 patients received placebo for a median treatment duration of 25 weeks.
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But without such information, IT is going to be flying blind when it comes to making huge decisions about whether to adopt SaaS-versions of applications, build new data centers, create private clouds, or use public cloud resources.
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