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A derivative of absolute risk is the NNT with a specific therapy to prevent one adverse outcome (the inverse of the difference in absolute risk).
The amendments also require enhanced disclosure of accounting policies for derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments in the footnotes to the financial statements.
The derivative Nancy , although used for girls at least since the time of Queen Anne (d. 1714), is not found for catamite until (says Partridge) about 1810.
The X probe showed signal covering the entire normal X as well as Xp and the proximal half of Xq on the derivative chromosome.
Now that it's in theaters, the pans are pouring in for this "ridiculously derivative" movie (Maslin, the New York Times ) about an astronaut (Johnny Depp) who returns to Earth after a strange, and possibly alien, encounter in space.