For chemicals that don't cause cancer, they obtain a safe dose for humans by
applying uncertainty factors to account for differences between mice and men and among individual people.
Not exact matches
I'd then publish the results along with details of the tests and estimate a «scaling
factor» to
apply to my
uncertainty levels.
The purpose of
applying the
factors is to determine the degree of
uncertainty present in the impugned expert's analysis.
The judgment accepts that this approach may introduce a level of
uncertainty (especially from the employer's point of view) but considers that that is outweighed by the
factor of seeking to
apply the employment protection legislation to achieve its aim in relation to the dismissed employee.
Another
factor which has postponed the resolution of the debate as to whether the extinguishment of native title as it occurs under Australian law is discriminatory, is that there has been a high level of
uncertainty around the two important components essential to its determination: first the interpretation that the High Court would give to the extinguishment provisions of the NTA and its relationship with extinguishment at common law; and second the meaning of discrimination as it
applies to native title.