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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: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: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: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: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: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:Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWith the increasing prevalence of crack use in Canada in the previous decade, crack pipe sharing has emerged as a public health concern, implicated in the transmission of blood- and saliva-borne infections. Drawing on...
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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:Canadian Urological Association Journal (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWith the observed trend toward the greater use of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in the management of urinary stone disease, the importance of preoperative risk assessment and estimation of treatment success has...
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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: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:Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (Vol. 36, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPhysical activity has established mental and physical health benefits, but related adverse events have not received attention. The purpose of this paper was to review the documented adverse events occurring from...
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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:Cancer Nursing Practice (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAN INNOVATIVE cancer nurse has developed two assessment tools to help nurses choose the most appropriate device to deliver medication directly to a patient's veins. The venous assessment tool (VAT) and deciding on...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 117, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Biomass smoke is an important source of particulate matter (PM), and much remains to be discovered with respect to the human health effects associated with this specific PM source. Exposure to biomass smoke...
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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...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 39, Issue 18)The Food and Drug Administration issued its first-ever draft guidance for pharmaceutical manufacturers on how to develop a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, which the agency increasingly requires of newly...