Risk and Benefit

Multi-Criteria Risk-Benefit Analysis of Health Care Management

Abstract Purpose of this paper: The objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach to evaluate the most suitable RFID-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. Design/methodology/approach: R...

A Model for Runway Landing Flow and Capacity with Risk and Cost Benefit Factors

As the demand for the civil aviation has been growing for decades and the system becoming increasingly complex, the use of systems engineering and operations research tools have shown to be of further use in managing this system. In this study, we apply such tools in managing landing operations on runways (as the bottleneck and highly valuable resources of air transportation networks) to handle...

Radiation Benefit and Risk Assessment

How much radiation does it take to cause our risk for an observable health effect to increase? Is there a level of radiation that is safe? How is radiation beneficial? The question of an effect occurring because of radiation exposure and the question of whether low‐ level radiation is safe are much‐debated topics. There are many thoughts on the answers to these questions, and suggested answers ...

When risk outweighs benefit

In October 2005, a team of US scientists, headed by Jeffery Taubenberger from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Rockville, MD, USA), published the full sequence of the highly virulent strain of influenza virus that caused the Spanish influenza pandemic in the winter of 1918– 1919 and killed up to 50 million people worldwide (Taubenberger et al, 2005). Further work based on the sequenc...

Benefit-risk methodology project