The objective of this article is to discuss the potential of economic analysis as a tool for identification and evaluation of corruption in legislative acts. We propose that corruption be perceived as a risk variable within the legislative process. Therefore we find it appropriate to employ risk analysis methods, used in various fields of economics, for the evaluation of corruption in legislati...

In the last two decades, the failure of multiple engineering projects has highlighted the importance of adopting risk management practices. While risk identification and risk assessment have been widely studied in the literature, only few authors have proposed formal tools for helping project managers to evaluate the effectiveness of their risk response plan. While some risk response measures m...

Privacy risk assessments aim to analyze and quantify the privacy risks associated with new systems. As such, they are critically important in ensuring that adequate privacy protections for individual users are built in. However, current methods to quantify privacy risk rely heavily on experienced analysts who pick the"correct"risk level on a five-point scale. In this paper, we argue that a more...

The Hahn spin-echo (HSE)-based BOLD effect at high magnetic fields is expected to provide functional images that originate exclusively from the microvasculature. The blood contribution that dominates HSE BOLD contrast at low magnetic fields (e.g., 1.5 T), and degrades specificity, is highly attenuated at high fields because the apparent T(2) of venous blood in an HSE experiment decreases quadra...

BACKGROUND Cancer is one of the highly virulent diseases known to humankind with a high mortality rate. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Sorghum is a principal cereal food in many parts of the world, and is critical in folk medicine of Asia and Africa. In the present study, we analyzed the effects of HSE in metastatic breast cancer. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Pr...

Many areas of the western United States have soils that have increased Se content, and ruminants grazing these rangelands may ingest increased quantities of Se. In addition, high-energy diets or increased Se intake may induce gut inflammation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of maternal plane of nutrition and increased dietary Se during gestation on inflammatory response...

Abstract: The prospect of China’s wind power industry is bright, but from the angle of investment, investment amount, operation and maintenance costs of wind power project are relatively high, at the same time, it is facing high policy risk and environment risk. Therefore, we should consider all kinds of risk factors to make appropriate risk management and control plan. Based on this, the paper...

The paper discusses in the context of nanotechnology whether current concepts of chemical risk assessment can be used to assess nanorisk. Nanorisk can be defined from the narrow (eco) toxicological perspective to the broader sense to include societal/cultural impacts or even to the fundamental philosophical level i.e. questioning societies need for the technology. We outline here the limitation...