Abstract Small island developing States, such as those in the Pacific, are often prone to multiple hazards that have potential result disaster and / or restrict development. Hazard data can be limited resolution omitted near SIDS’ coasts, but a growing improved range of datasets becoming available. Through an analysis approximately 100 policy documents on risk management Pacific nations, we fou...

Natural hazards are among destructive agents that annually take thousands of lives and impose devastating damages in Iran. Spotting such a high risk areas can help reducing the amount of their probable risk. A 1:500000 liquefaction and landslide hazard zonation map developed for the southern shoreline of the Caspian Sea. This geotechnical hazard map divides the study area to 15 hazard classes (...

Background: Tert-butyl mercaptan is one of the frequently used odorants derived from natural gases. It has been declared as a health hazard by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the USA. There is not much information available about the mercaptans long-term toxicity secondary to occupational exposure. This study was conducted to evaluate the oxidative stress caused by m...

BACKGROUND The Logistics Management Institute initially developed a medical cost-avoidance model (MCAM) to estimate the costs associated with the failure to eliminate or control health hazards of army materiel systems during 1997. METHODS Presented is an updated version of the MCAM that uses cost factors for individual health hazard categories. The earlier MCAM calculated army materiel acquis...

the waiting time between children births are called tempo. this phenomenon plays a crucial role in the child and mother health. the purpose of the present study is determination of factors which influence this variable of interest. a significance level of 5% and power of 80% considered to calculate the required sample size for this cross sectional study. the sample size of 124 women determined ...

moral hazards are the result of an expansive range of factors mostly originating in the patients’ roles. the objective of the present study was to investigate patient incentives for moral hazards using the experiences of experts of basic iranian insurance organizations. this was a qualitative research. data were collected through semi-structured interviews. the study population included all exp...

risk assessment and management techniques are used in industrial activities to reduce accidents by applying preventive and protective methods. in this article a preventive approach called hazard and operability study (hazop) was used. the application of hazop, a process hazard identification and control method, has been demonstrated in the fatty acid unit of golnar oil company, northwest of teh...

objective: tempo is the average waiting time to next birth for a woman. role of fertility as the most important phenomenon determining population fluctuations due to the studies of it compared with other demographic phenomena be important and review the multifarious socioeconomic factors of it share  a large effective population studies. general purpose of this study is fitting the cox model to...