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...

This study is focused on the assessment of seismic risk for elements electric network (thermoelectric powerplants and substations) in Romania. Firstly, main analyzed this are briefly presented. Thermoelectric account about 30% electricity production capacity 40% production. The damage to Romania caused by Vrancea 1977 event presented study. fragility thermoelectric as recommended SYNER-G projec...

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 =...

fragility curves represent the probabilities that structural damages, under various levels of seismic excitation, will exceed the specified damage states by means of earthquake intensity damage relations. conceptual aspects related to seismic vulnerability, damage and risk evaluation are discussed first, together with a short review of the most widely used possibilities for the seismic evaluati...