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William Lawless
We review the progress in developing a science of interdependence applied to the determinations and perceptions of risk for autonomous human?machine systems based on a case study of the Department of Defense?s (DoD) faulty determination of risk in a dron...
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Petr Trávnícek, Lubo? Kotek, Tomá? Koutný, Tomá? Vítez
Pág. 397 - 405
Biogas plants are a specific facility from the QRA (Quantitative Risk Assessment) methodologies' point of view, especially in the case of the determination of the event frequency of accident scenarios for biogas leakage from a gas holder and subsequent i...
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Manuel Rodríguez López, Carlos Piñeiro Sánchez, Pablo de Llano Monelos
Pág. pp. 187 - 217
This paper offers an exhaustive analysis of the effectiveness of several models and methodologies that are commonly used to forecast financial failure: Linear, MDA, Logit, and artificial neural network. Our main aim is to evaluate their relative strength...
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Xuezhi Cao, Bingbing Wang, Xinxin Liu, Jichun Cheng and Shiliang Wang
Investigation of the environmental occurrence and behavior of organophosphate esters (OPEs) is very important and is becoming a hot topic in the academic community. In this study, 12 targeted OPEs in the water and sediment from 19 coastal tourist resorts...
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Sambor Guze, Wojciech Wawrzynski and Przemyslaw Wilczynski
One of the significant problems in the safe operation of vessels is the behavior of the ship on the wave. Of all degrees of freedom, the greatest threat to the safety of a ship is associated with excessive rolling. One of the best methods to improve the ...
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Felix Flesch, Pia Berger, Daniel Robles-Vargas, Gustavo Emilio Santos-Medrano and Roberto Rico-Martínez
Following a quantitative analysis of adequate feedstock, comprising 11 woody biomass species, four biochars were generated using a Kon-Tiki flame curtain kiln in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Despite the high quality (certified by European Biochar...
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Samah Jabari, Isam Shahrour and Jamal El Khattabi
This paper presents an assessment of the urban water security in a severe water stress area using a semi-quantitative risk-based approach. Water security indicators are selected according to the recommendations of international institutions, the literatu...
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Tapan Biswas, Jolian McHardy
Pág. 17 - 37
We consider fixed and asking price strategies in the context of selling an asset with Bernoullian updating of the seller?s subjective probability of sale at a given price. The determination of optimal fixed, asking and endogenous reservation pr...
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Tomasz Walczykiewicz and Magdalena Skonieczna
Flooding risk in urban areas is particularly high, due to the high population density and property values, including those of transport, residential, service and industrial infrastructure, among others. There are many reasons for flooding in urban areas;...
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Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik and Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak
Contemporary risk assessment makes reference to current world trends, whereby there is increased emphasis on safety. This paper has thus sought mainly to present new approaches to failure risk assessment where the functioning of a water distribution netw...
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Archana Palle, M. Jagan Mohan Reddy, I. Sreenivasa Rao
Pág. 67 - 72
This study describes the association between the profile characteristics of watershed farmers and the extent of adoption of various NRM (Natural Resource Management) practices in watershed areas of the Andhra Pradesh state. The results indicate that posi...
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Cornelia Marcela Danu
In the present work I presented the risk of poverty in Romania considering the economic and social determination. I highlighted that poverty in Romania, is a mix of economic, educational, cultural etc. factors and reinforced by the lack of family or soci...
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Matthew O. Idoko,Saleh A. Ado,Veronica J. Umoh
Pág. 152 - 158
The purposes of this research were to determine the prevalence of dengue virus in the study population, to determine the relationship between the occurrence of dengue virus IgM and potential risk factors and to determine the association between the occur...
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Todor Backalic,Marinko Maslaric
Pág. 6 - 21
Climate changes require special attention and global monitoring. Impacts on nature and industry are increasingly evident. Water transport could be the backbone of the future European combined transport system. Unfortunately, risks in water transport are ...
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Bruno Ferreira Frascaroli,Luciano da Costa Silva,Osvaldo Cândido da Silva Filho
Pág. 73 - 106
To minimize the consequences of asymmetric information, the sovereign risk ratings are instruments that constitute a key piece in the determination of credit market conditions, essential to the growth of developing countries like Brazil. In the present w...
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S. Paulo
AbstractThe purpose of this technical note is to draw attention to the problems which are inherent in the use of certainty equivalent coefficients as an approach to incorporating risk into capital budgeting. More specifically, the certainty equivalent co...
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S. Paulo,J. K. Bosch
AbstractThe pivotal role of the required rate of return to all financial decisions is well documented in the financial literature. However, many misconceptions exist with regard to the specification of the components of the required rate of return. In or...
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S. Paulo,J. K. Bosch
AbstractThe pivotal role of the required rate of return to all financial decisions is well documented in the financial literature. However, many misconceptions exist with regard to the specification of the components of the required rate of return. In or...
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Guo Li, Yida Teng and Huimin Zhou
Aero engine compressor disks are typically life-limited parts and it is necessary to secure them through the implementation of an engineering plan and a manufacturing plan. Specifically, the engineering plan recommends the quantification of the safety of...
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Juan Carlos Quiroz-Flores, Brenda Abásolo-Núñez, Daniella Suárez-Miñano and S. Nallusamy
This research article focuses on the ergonomic design of the workstations for the plastics industry plant to reduce the postural load that improves the workers? productivity and the operators? absenteeism due to musculoskeletal disorders. This article de...
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