 Contribute to establish best practice for site characterization, process optimization, monitoring and verification and risk assessment for geologic storage of CO2.  Increase public acceptance and awareness of CCS.  Expand economic/ infrastructure scenarios for the whole CCS value chain.  Advance the science and expand the potential scope of implementation of CCS technologies through intern...

This paper provides a review of recent work in the area of fire risk assessment and its application. For completeness, the paper covers the following areas: basics of fire risk assessment, types of fire risk assessment methods, and comprehensive fire risk assessment models. The first section provides information on the definition of fire risk, measures of fire risk, acceptable fire risk levels,...

A BSTRACT : Uncertainty in the detection and evaluation of chemical hazards to health leads to challenges when conducting risk assessments. Some of the uncertainty has to do with data, some with incomplete understanding of processes, and some with the most fundamental ways of viewing the questions. True variability—across space, in time, or among individuals—complicates the search for understan...

Despite much theoretical support, meta-analysis of the efficacy of formative assessment does not provided empirical evidence commensurate with expectations. This theoretical study suggests that teachers need a better organizing structure to allow a formative assessment process to live up to its promise. We propose that the use of learning map systems can provide that structure, and we describe ...

A method is presented for identifying an expected profitable set of customers, to offer them an additional insurance product, by estimating a customer specific latent risk profile, for the additional product, by using the customer specific available data for an existing insurance product of the specific customer. For the purpose, a multivariate credibility estimator is considered and we investi...

2 This paper draws on lessons from a UK case study in the management of diffuse microbial pollution from grassland farm systems in the Taw catchment, south west England. We report on the development and preliminary testing of a field-scale faecal indicator organism risk indexing tool (FIORIT). This tool aims to prioritise those fields most vulnerable in terms of their risk of contributing FIOs ...

Decision-making under risk assessment involves dealing with the matter of uncertainty, especially in projects such as tunnel construction. Risk control should include not only measures to reduce the possible consequence of incident, but also exploration measures (information collecting measures) to reduce the uncertainty of the incident. The classical risk assessment model in engineering is R =...

Purpose In any information security risk assessment, vulnerabilities are usually identified by information-gathering techniques. However, vulnerability identification errors wrongly identified or unidentified vulnerabilities can occur as uncertain data are used. Furthermore, businesses’ security needs are not considered sufficiently. Hence, security functions may not protect business assets suf...

In this paper we discuss the problem of testing equality and inequality constraints in symmetrical linear regression models. This class of models includes all symmetric continuous distributions, such as normal, Student-t, Pearson VII, power exponential and logistic, among others. It is commonly used for the analysis of data containing influential or outlying observations with responses supposed...

One of the greatest challenges facing psychology and psychiatry is the schism between science and practice. The schism is especially pronounced when it comes to understanding personality. For skilled clinical practitioners, personality assessment generally means clinical case formulation: understanding the patterns of thinking, feeling, fantasizing, desiring, fearing, coping, defending, attachi...