With current treatments, patients with low and intermediate risk disease have an excellent prognosis with cure rates above 90 for low risk and 70 90 for intermediate risk.

This appears to be a low risk activity.

Under the Convention, the risk of third party litigation appears low.

The new risk stratification will be based on the new INRGSS staging system, age (dichotomized at 18 months), tumor grade, N myc amplification, unbalanced 11q aberration, and ploidy into four pre treatment risk groups very low, low, intermediate, and high risk.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take.

However, a low dose of hydrochlorothiazide does not seem to increase the risk.

The borrower knows the risk is high, but tells the lender it is low.

Moreover, low interest rate policies transfer inflation risk to all savers and to future generations.

Low health literacy reduces the success of treatment and increases the risk of medical error.

Low inflation, no currency risk, decreased transaction costs, and greater transparency have made the euro a success.

Another 8 trillion are housing mortgages, which also carry little risk, given low loan to value ratios.

Third, contributing factors included low interest rates, compressed risk spreads, and global imbalances that accommodated low savings in the US, consumption in excess of output, and a mounting trade deficit.

Given the high risk premiums currently prevailing in Europe, this percentage is too low to constitute a level playing field.

In the view of the Panel, such preserves are feasible, cost effective and pose a low risk of adverse impacts.

The United Kingdom and France are pressing hard for indirect military intervention supplying arms to the rebel side, in their view, would be a low cost, low risk, potentially high return option.

The LTRO enabled Spanish and Italian banks to engage in very profitable and low risk arbitrage in their own countries bonds.

In the view of the Panel, such a preserve is feasible, cost effective and poses a low risk of adverse impacts.

Meanwhile, prolonged low interest rates contributed to a chase for yield in the financial sector that resulted in disregard of credit risk.

People with low social support are at a much higher risk of death from a variety of diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease).

In fact, lowering the benchmark rates for risk free assets changes the distribution of the risk premia on risky assets, making it too low when asset bubbles are forming and too high when they burst.

Today s low interest rate environment is causing a flood of financial flows to emerging economies, raising the risk of inflation and asset bubbles.

But it is clear that in an environment of slow growth, low interest rates, and high risk premia, many banks must struggle to survive.

The relatively low interest rates on both short term and long term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns.

If a country is not slow in paying back its debts and applies those policies considered healthy by the markets, bingo, country risk is low.

Emerging studies on the risk taking and asset price inflation engendered by ultra low policy rates will eventually convince Fed policymakers to change their stance.

Indeed, countries with higher birth rates are less exposed to longevity risk in the next half century or so than countries with low birth rates.

First, just because the maximum elevation is low does not necessarily mean that the territory is at risk of being submerged by rising water levels.

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

Managing this challenge is crucial if we are to realize the promise of individualized medicine, with intensified surveillance and therapy for high risk patients and avoidance of unnecessary or even harmful interventions in those with a relatively low risk.

Some central banks began to raise interest rates pre emptively, albeit in small steps to counter the risk of potentially higher inflation in 2005, signalling the end of the low inflation, low interest rate environment of the last two years.

With its high value, relatively low bulk and ease of transport, easily disguised identity and origin and the potential to exploit the market demand unmet by restricted supplies, the caviar trade offers organized criminal groups a low risk, high profit activity.

And, as Reinhart and Rogoff say, a correlation between high debt and low growth is a sign that one should investigate whether debt is a risk.

The application of selective vector (transmitter insects) control should be in line with the epidemiological stratification of the country into high , moderate and low risk zones.

Similarly, Mexico s tiered approach to financial access according to which requirements for opening bank accounts are proportionate to risk, with low value accounts subject to higher transaction restrictions has expanded access to basic accounts, while mitigating the risk of money laundering.

Banks and investors consider them to be high risk due to their limited assets, low level or lack of collateral, lack of business history and market volatility.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

Today, the global surfeit of liquidity has once again resulted in comparably low risk premia and a resurgence of capital flows, despite a broad consensus that the world faces enormous risks (including the risks posed by a return of risk premia to more normal levels.)

Cardiovascular diseases account for 13 million deaths in low and middle income countries each year, more than a quarter of the entire death toll, and risk factors are growing.

In the US, the low risk assigned to senior tranches of mortgage backed securities made them attractive instruments for banks to hold, given the relatively high return they offered.

(a) Risk of causing significant transboundary harm includes risks taking the form of a high probability of causing significant transboundary harm and a low probability of causing disastrous transboundary harm

An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

Eventually, excessive inflation may erupt, or credit growth may slow, rather than accelerate, if banks faced with very low net interest rate margins decide that risk relative to reward is insufficient.

The problem is that banks continue to offer big mortgages while having little of their own skin in the game. The IMF estimates that the average mortgage risk weight in Europe and Asia was 14 and 15 , respectively, with some banks using a risk weight as low as 6 .

But low interest rates are entirely compatible with stagnation or depression if risk premia remain large as the world learned in the 1930 s, and as Japan relearned in the 1990 s.