This paper presents site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) results at 24 locations throughout New Zealand (NZ). Specifically, peak ground acceleration (PGA) curves for two generic soft soil conditions are considered. For specific return periods of interest, disaggregation is used to obtain the percentage contributions various sources hazard, including metrics such as mean ea...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The incidence of thyroid carcinoma is rising. Few studies have examined patient characteristics that influence survival when adjusting for treatment and tumor stage/extent. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis was performed using the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results registry data among patients diagnosed with well-differentiated thyroid (WDT) carcinoma during 198...

The goal of relative survival methodology is to compare the survival experience of a cohort with that of the background population. Most often an additive excess hazard model is employed, which assumes that each person's hazard is a sum of 2 components--the population hazard obtained from life tables and an excess hazard attributable to the specific condition. Usually covariate effects on the e...

Comparison of two hazard rates is important in applications related to times to occurrence of a specific event. Conventional comparison procedures, such as the logrank, Gehan-Wilcoxon, and Peto-Peto tests, are powerful only when the two hazard rates do not cross each other. Because crossing hazard rates are common in practice, a number of procedures have been proposed in the literature for comp...

Introduction: Nuclear radiation is potentially harmful to humans and soil contamination with radionuclides is the main source of human radiation exposure. These radionuclides can., enter to human body through the food chain. In this study, 34 soil samples were collected from between Arak city and Shazand Power Plant over 20 km length and analyzed. Materials and Methods: The specific activities ...

Background: Ischemic Heart Disease has been increasing in the Middle East and North Africa. Hypertension is an important modifiable risk factor of IHD and play an important role in the epidemic of IHD. Hypertension is responsible for about 45% of IHD mortality and affects more than one billion people around the world. Objective: This study aims to quantify the population attributable fraction...

The rise of performance-based earthquake engineering, in combination with the complexity associated selecting records for time-history analysis, demonstrates an expressed need localized default suites ground motion structural designers to use absence site-specific studies. In current research investigation, deaggregations probabilistic seismic hazard models (National Seismic Hazard Model, Cante...

Introduction: This Study has was  carried out to measure and detect the natural occurred radionuclide content including 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in the  Nile River sediments at various locations in Upper Egypt, from Aswan to El-Minya. Additionally, we determine the absorbed dose rate, the annual effective dose equivalent, and excess lifetime cancer risk also has been calculated. Material and Metho...

In this paper, we depict and analyze simple models of moral hazard, namely “operating moral hazard” and “investing moral hazard.” First we assume that a corporation exists primarily for the benefit of their shareholders. Then, moral hazard occurs when managers choose an option knowingly that is not optimum for shareholders. We evaluate the loss to shareholders in terms of cash flow to them in t...