The most important decisions in software development projects are those taken at the beginning, because they are the most difficult to change later. Especially the assessment of risks is essential in the early stages of development, because the results are a crucial source of information for early decision making. Risks have to be reassessed at frequent intervals, because they might change over...

The 2016 Sepsis-3 guidelines included the Quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) tool to identify patients at risk of sepsis. The objective was to compare the utility of qSOFA to the St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent among patients with suspected infection. The primary outcomes were in-hospital mortality or admission to the intensive care unit. A multiple center obs...

Microbial risk assessment (MRA) is a process that evaluates the likelihood of adverse human health effects following exposure to a medium in which pathogens are present. Several different classes of models are available to quantitatively characterize risks to human health from exposure to pathogens. Herein, we consider the question of parsimony for specific realizations of representative static...

The objectives of this article are to provide streamlined technique, including the Delphi approach, Bayesian update and two-dimensional Monte Carlo analysis(2D MCA), and to provide information through the investigation of factors in risk model which supports risk assessment for the radiological risk assessment in operation of such radiation facilities with vague information. The scope of this s...

In the food production, operating environment, personnel, equipment and many other factors may introduce microbiological hazards into food, which makes consumers face health and safety risk. Effective implementation of risk management is essential to ensure food safety. In order to search, assess, prevent and control of varieties of risk factors, modular process risk modeling method is improved...

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) inevitably involves change. However, modern business organizations are extremely complex. Setting improvement targets in BPR too high without considering the company’s capability and its external and internal interactions will have little chance of achieving the set targets, which means project failure. Unfortunately, forecasting of the BPR outcomes is curr...

This study assesses dynamics of openness and finance in Africa by integrating financial development dynamics of depth, activity and size in the assessment of how financial, trade, institutional, political and other openness policies (of second generation structural and institutional reforms) have affected financial development. The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments wi...

It is possible to build useful models for software project risk assessment based on Bayesian networks. A number of such models have been published and used and they provide valuable predictions for decision-makers. However, the accuracy of the published models is limited due to the fact that they are based on crudely discretised numeric nodes. In traditional Bayesian network tools such discreti...

Money laundering evolves using multiple layers of trade, multi trading methods and uses multiple components in order to evade detection and prevention techniques. Consequently, detecting money laundering requires an analytical framework that can handle large amounts of unstructured, semistructured and transactional data that stream at transactional speeds to detect business-complexities, and di...