the territory of serbia is vulnerable to various types of natural hazards and the risk is not equal across the entire territory; it varies depending on the type of hazard and the expected potential for damage. the first aim of this research was to determine the geographical distributions of the major types of natural hazards. seismic hazards, landslides, rock falls, floods, torrential floods...

Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked. They can, however, be important. This paper surveys the terrain and proposes a taxonomy.

Electronic components during High Energy Physics experiments are exposed to high level of radiation. Radiation environment causes many problems to electronic devices. This report highlights the major hazards to electronics caused by radiation. Several experiments were done and results are included.

The focus of this paper is to describe and evaluate the security hazards and risks involved with wireless LANs within a business environment, present performance issues that must be addressed and introduce a new protocol, Intelligent Wireless Management (IWM) to enhance network performance. Performance evaluation is based on the results of experiments conducted using the network simulator (ns).

In the past, companies have frequently neglected early warning signals about potential hazards for human health or the environment associated with their products or operations. This chapter reviews and analyses relevant interdisciplinary literature and prominent case studies — in particular those documented in both volumes of Late lessons from early warnings — and identifies main factors respon...

Copyright: © 2014 Ndubuisi Ezejiofor TI. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Risk Assessment: Re-appraisals for Potential Hazards in the Operational Environment and Facilities of Petroleum Refining...

gastric cancer is the most prevalent cancer among men and the third most prevalent cancer among women in iran. its most important reason for death is its belated diagnosis at the advanced stages of the disease. various factors can be effective on the survival of these patients after surgery, which are the major concern in this study.data from 330 patients with gastric cancer who had undergone s...

BACKGROUND In an effort to eliminate dengue, a successful technology was developed with the stable introduction of the obligate intracellular bacteria Wolbachia pipientis into the mosquito Aedes aegypti to reduce its ability to transmit dengue fever due to life shortening and inhibition of viral replication effects. An analysis of risk was required before considering release of the modified mos...

As several of the papers in this special issue show, environmental health hazards are currently most prevalent in developing countries at the household level. Among the commonest hazards are indoor air pollution, arsenic and infectious agents in drinkingwater, and local environmental exposure to lead. Finding ways to reduce these risks more quickly remains an important item on the global agenda...

with increasing frequency, the developing countries and the people living there are being affected by disasters. more and more often, development efforts are being destroyed. the reason for this trend is their growing vulnerability, which in turn is the result of economic and social development processes, such as the expansion of settlements and agricultural land in risk areas. the economic and...