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Lais Sette Galinari and Marina Rezende Bazon
Considering that adolescent offenders are quite a heterogeneous group in terms of behavioral and psychosocial variables, it is considered that a typological approach can assist in the systematization of these differences, aiming at a better understanding...
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Aibing Jin, Prabhat Basnet and Shakil Mahtab
In deep engineering, rockburst hazards frequently result in injuries, fatalities, and the destruction of contiguous structures. Due to the complex nature of rockbursts, predicting the severity of rockburst damage (intensity) without the aid of computer m...
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Yu Chen and Pengzhi Lin
Dams and reservoirs are useful systems in water conservancy projects; however, they also pose a high-risk potential for large downstream areas. Flood, as the driving force of dam overtopping, is the main cause of dam failure. Dam floods and their risks a...
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Yu Chen and Pengzhi Lin
Dams and reservoirs are useful systems in water conservancy projects; however, they also pose a high-risk potential for large downstream areas. Flood, as the driving force of dam overtopping, is the main cause of dam failure. Dam floods and their risks a...
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Manuela Piccardo, Francesca Provenza, Serena Anselmi, Andrea Broccoli, Antonio Terlizzi and Monia Renzi
Cigarette butts (CBs) are among the dominant constituents of marine and beach litter. Few studies have been conducted, and the environmental effects of CBs on marine species are still poorly understood. This study aims to evaluate the ecotoxicological ef...
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Xiaorong Wang, Boyue Liu, Shaolin He, Hongying Yuan, Dongli Ji, Ruolin Li, Yang Song, Wei Xu, Bo Liu and Yingjun Xu
To clarify the risk posed to groundwater in oil shale in situ mining areas, we examine five leached pollutants: Fe, Mn, Cr, sulfate, and ammonia nitrogen. Potential groundwater contents of these five pollutants were evaluated using an improved Nemero com...
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Trevor Moores,Ralph Champion
This paper presents a six-step metrics-based methodology for assessing the risks associated with - and hence the resources required to implement - the requirements contained within a software requirements specification (SRS). The method seeks to eliminat...
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Richard W.Seidel, Kimberlee A. Pardo, Paul A.Estabrooks, WenYou, Sarah S. Wall, Brenda M.Davy and Fabio A.Almeida
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify patient preferences for different components of a local diabetes prevention program that would improve reach.A secondary purpose was to determine if patient characteristics were related to program pref...
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Mohamed Gad, Aissam Gaagai, Mohamed Hamdy Eid, Péter Szucs, Hend Hussein, Osama Elsherbiny, Salah Elsayed, Moataz M. Khalifa, Farahat S. Moghanm, Moustapha E. Moustapha, Dina A. Tolan and Hekmat Ibrahim
The assessment and prediction of water quality are important aspects of water resource management. Therefore, the groundwater (GW) quality of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer (NSSA) in El Kharga Oasis was evaluated using indexing approaches, such as the drin...
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Ercan Isik, Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko, Hüseyin Bilgin, Naida Ademovic, Aydin Büyüksaraç, Ehsan Harirchian, Borko Bulajic, Hayri Baytan Özmen and Seyed Ehsan Aghakouchaki Hosseini
Data from past earthquakes is an important tool to reveal the impact of future earthquakes on engineering structures, especially in earthquake-prone regions. These data are important indicators for revealing the seismic loading effects that structures wi...
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Huijuan Tang, Zhixin Ke, Muting Yan, Wenjing Wang, Huayue Nie, Boxing Li, Jingping Zhang, Xiangrong Xu and Jun Wang
Surface sediment samples were collected from 19 sites throughout Daya Bay, China to study the concentrations, spatial distributions, potential ecological risk, and possible sources of heavy, including metals copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As), cadmium ...
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Yang Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Lu Hu
Pág. 571 - 590
This paper examines commuters? departure time and route choices in the morning commute problem when travel time is described as a bounded distributional uncertainty set. The preferences towards risk and ambiguity are distinguished by adopting the ambigui...
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Darian M. Onchis, Flavia Costi, Codruta Istin, Ciprian Cosmin Secasan and Gabriel V. Cozma
(1) Background: Lung cancers are the most common cancers worldwide, and prostate cancers are among the second in terms of the frequency of cancers diagnosed in men. Automatic ranking of the risk groups of such diseases is highly in demand, but the clinic...
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Ioannis N. Kallianiotis
Pág. 44 - 68
The paper discusses the latest economic crisis and the public policies used to mitigate the recession and improve the economic growth. The current target rate (monetary policy) is closed to zero since December 2008 with a new experimental policy (?quanti...
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Gordana Jakovljevic, Miro Govedarica, Flor Alvarez-Taboada and Vladimir Pajic
Digital elevation model (DEM) has been frequently used for the reduction and management of flood risk. Various classification methods have been developed to extract DEM from point clouds. However, the accuracy and computational efficiency need to be impr...
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Agnese Natali, Antonella Cosentino, Francesco Morelli and Walter Salvatore
This paper provides a discussion and thoughtful application on a large sample of the procedures for the classification of existing bridges recently adopted in Italy and defined within the Italian Guidelines for the classification, risk management, safety...
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Stephanie BLACK,Daniel GLASER-SEGURA
Pág. 325
Organizations have worked over the years to develop efficiencies to their supply chains, which includes efforts to reduce waste, lower costs, consolidate suppliers and distributors, better manage costs of goods sold and inventory, develop efficiencies in...
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Stephanie BLACK,Daniel GLASER-SEGURA
Pág. 325
Organizations have worked over the years to develop efficiencies to their supply chains, which includes efforts to reduce waste, lower costs, consolidate suppliers and distributors, better manage costs of goods sold and inventory, develop efficiencies in...
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Jaime Enrique Lincovil,Chang Chiann
Pág. 56 - 76
Evaluating forecasts of risk measures, such as value?at?risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES), is an important process for financial institutions. Backtesting procedures were introduced to assess the efficiency of these forecasts. In this paper, we comp...
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Marie-José Nollet, Ahmad Abo El Ezz, Oliver Surprenant, Alex Smirnoff and Miroslav Nastev
An integrated web application, referred to as ER2 for rapid risk evaluator, is under development for a user-friendly seismic risk assessment by the non-expert public safety community. The assessment of likely negative consequences is based on pre-populat...
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