Aggregated Risk Assessment and Survey for Risk Reduction in Oil Terminals

Breast cancer risk assessment and risk reduction.

Until recently, the primary message of breast health awareness programs was that early detection is a woman's best protection against breast cancer, because there was no way to prevent it. Currently, however, tamoxifen is approved for chemoprevention of breast cancer in high-risk women, and studies are underway evaluating other medications that may decrease breast cancer risk. Data have also be...

Risk Assessment of Investments with Fuzzy Efficiency Indicators for Oil and Gas Production Industry

In the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. This leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. The advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. The selection of criteria of p...

EMRAgis - Analytical Risk Assessment Tool for Community Risk Reduction

EMRAgis is a modern risk assessment tool. It is developed as an innovative fire prevention strategy for “Community risk reduction” (CCR) in Germany. The primary objective is to deal the assessment of personnel and material requirements of the local fire services based on reproducible empirical mathematical algorithm. These algorithms quantify the risk in a municipal area of discretion and deriv...

Farmer risk assessment for voluntary insecticide reduction

We develop a theoretical basis for voluntary reduction in insecticide use, and quantify the subjective value farmers place on reducing environmental risk. The indirect utility model is used to quantify the acceptable financial cost of eliminating one insecticide application in return for avoidance of moderate risk to the environment. The mean valuation in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio, USA,...

Risk Profile: Risk Assessment of Fish Oil and Oxidised Fish Oil