What is "positives"

Usage examples of "positives".

Then, from around the late eighties, the mortality of the HIV positives from conditions diagnosed as AIDS rose significantly, and a widely publicized study cited this as proof that their AIDS was due to HIV.

Which means that instead of having one true reading and three false positives, the tests resulted in three true readings and one false negative.

A study in central Africa found that 70 percent of the reported HIV positives were false.

Sure, she got a load of false positives first run-through, but she was able to identify one true hit in the first dozen and fed it back to the facial app, modified it and ran it through again.

Going through those for a few more true positives and refining the app again got her down to a couple of hundred true positives, from which she weeded a handful of false positives and doubtfuls by hand.

His whole philosophy is to find his way around obstacles, to glean the positives from setbacks.

Sandy set about gently reinforcing those obvious positives in Cathy, to revive her great fighting spirit.

From those positives I repeated the whole process, ending with negatives.

To determine the finite level of those two positives would require the East Coast lab’s validation.

However, because the GC-MS analysis showed no evidence of organic molecules, most scientists concluded that the first three tests had been false positives and, regrettably, there was no life on Mars.

The prints, or positives, in the other vaults, are in reel lengths and so are kept in the round boxes in which they are shipped.