I wish to inform you of the release of the draft 'Western Rock Lobster Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment 2005 Report – July 2005' for a three-week public consultation period. Please find attached the report for your consideration. This report provides background on the western rock lobster fishery, its governance, the reporting requirements for the Ecologically Sustainable Development process ...

This article presents a process for an integrated policy analysis that combines risk assessment and benefit-cost analysis. This concept, which explicitly combines the two types of related analyses, seems to contradict the long-accepted risk analysis paradigm of separating risk assessment and risk management since benefit-cost analysis is generally considered to be a part of risk management. Yet...

Securing the environment of care is a challenging and continuous effort for most healthcare security managers, who face unique challenges in balancing the open campus environment with the protection needs of the hospital's patients, employees, and other assets. By conducting a comprehensive risk assessment, hospital security managers can prioritize identified risks, develop an effective hospita...

appreciated by most men. In the business world, risk, when adroitly judged, can lead to significant rewards. By contrast, most men tend to be somewhat risk averse, not only financially, but also more importantly in terms of approaching their health. Attitudes between the sexes vary, as does their willingness to seek medical help and advice. Women tend to seek help earlier and are much more like...

An important problem in discrete-event stochastic simulation is the selection of the best system from a finite set of alternatives. There are many techniques for ranking and selection and multiple comparisons discussed in the literature. Most procedures employ classical frequentist approaches, although there has been recent attention to Bayesian methods. In this paper, we compare Bayesian and f...

Information technology has been considered as both a strategic catalyst and enabler of business process reengineering (BPR). An area of major concern has been the difficulty to convince senior management’s reluctant behavior toward promoting the strategic role of IT in process reengineering. There has been relatively little research on this topic. Furthermore, one common approach might be merel...