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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents a new approach to interpreting and analyzing technological risks and evaluating their impact on policymaking in liberal societies. I argue that risks must be seen first as emergent phenomena that...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 57, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedEvaluation of exhaust stack design for a major research and development (R &D) facility included state-of-the-art dispersion modeling in a wind tunnel. To understand the potential human health effects of various...
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From:Science (Vol. 266, Issue 5183) Peer-ReviewedThe California Environmental Protection Agency has issued a report that takes a strict stance on the issue of comparative environmental risk. Scientists are praising the report's detailing of methodology, sources of data...
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From:Science (Vol. 250, Issue 4987) Peer-ReviewedThe Clean Air Act will eventually have some limited beneficial effect in reducing chemical risks to human health. It will be implemented at considerable expense to consumers. They will pay a subtle regressive tax,...
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From:Journal of Risk and Insurance (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHealth risk assessments have gained wide acceptance in the US and have been the basis of several environmental decisions. Although the risk assessment concept evolved in the 1980s, the basic risk assessment process has...
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From:Hydrocarbon Processing (Vol. 69, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedARCHIE evaluates hazardous incidents ATOOL TO ASSIST in planning for and quantifying hazards resulting from the release of toxic, flammable, explosive or other hazardous materials is available. Known as ARCHIE...
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From:Risk Management (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs we saw with Thailand's monsoon-season deluge and the destructive waters sent ashore by Hurricane Sandy, floods are one of the most catastrophic natural disasters. But by analyzing the science behind the devastation,...
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From:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRisk-based monitoring was in TransCelerate BioPharma's sights since the pharmaceutical company collaborative was announced in September 2012. TransCelerate made good on its promise and delivered its first position paper...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 36, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE--Identification of patients at high risk for new-onset diabetes after kidney transplantation (NODAT) will facilitate clinical trials for its prevention. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--We previously described...
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From:International Journal of Health System and Disaster Management (Vol. 2, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Mohammad. Yarmohammadian, Marzie. Jazi, Elahe. Khorasani, Golrokh. Atighechian Introduction: Risk assessment is the ability to identify risk factors on one hand and to analyze risks and to select appropriate...
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From:Journal of Asian Medical Student Association (Vol. 2, Issue S3) Peer-ReviewedThe potential health risk due to lifetime exposure to copper, lead, chromium, zinc and iron in urban soil of Karachi was evaluated. Mean concentrations of Cu, Pb, Cr, Zn and Fe in topsoil samples were 33.26 [+ or -]...
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From:British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 11, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedThe probation service is about to undergo major changes in its structure as the Government drives through its proposals outlined in Transforming Rehabilitation. The question is whether this will be an improvement in how...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 14, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSummary It is widely accepted that most adult mental health difficulties originate in childhood so it is essential that they are detected and treated early to prevent them from becoming more serious later in life....
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From:Journal of Risk Finance (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to examine the current status of risk management in Indian companies and explore the reasons for the adoption or lack of adoption of integrated approach to risk...
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From:Future Cardiology (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Benjamin D Horne [*] 3 , Stacey Knight 1 2 , Heidi T May 1 Keywords * clinical decision rule; clinical prediction rule; prediction model; risk score According to the WHO global burden of disease...
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From:Cardiology Research and PracticePeer-ReviewedThis study evaluated whether statin therapy changed a diagnostic validity of lipid and inflammatory markers in ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients. Levels of lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoproteins, inflammatory...
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From:Journal of Conservative Dentistry (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Annie. Shrestha, M. Mohamed- Tahir, Jayshree. Hegde, Amir. Azarpazhooh, Anil. Kishen Objective : This study aimed to evaluate the ability of an optical spectroscopic sensor (OSS) to monitor bacterial-mediated...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 18, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSummary This article argues that the number of deaths caused by venous thromboembolism (VTE) can be reduced if all patients in emergency departments are assessed to identify those who are most at risk of developing...
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From:Journal of Risk Finance (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Purpose--The majority of quality control charts are employed for normally distributed data. In reality this assumption is not always valid, as an alternative the Burr distribution is considered here....
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From:Mathematics of Operations Research (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost of the recent work on 2-stage stochastic combinatorial optimization problems has focused on minimization of the expected cost or the worst-case cost of the solution. Those two objectives can be viewed as two...