Abstract Deficiencies of the four spectral formats i.e., 2%/50-yr, 5%/50-yr, 10%/50-yr and AASHTO (American Association State Highway Officials) 2009 demand modification for bridge design application in Canada. Among them spectrum is dropped from current investigation as its difference with Canadian Bridge Design Code (CHBDC) 2006 too large to modify. This study introduces an approach calibrati...

Hazardous surface processes such as floods and mass movements are often induced by a common trigger extreme precipitation. The relationship between the intensity of hazard is generally assumed to be monotonically increasing (increasing precipitation never decreases intensity). validity this assumption complex multi-hazard events has not been thoroughly investigated. In research, cumulative was ...

Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems can serve as a viable solution to protect specific hazard‐prone targets (major cities or critical infrastructure) against harmful seismic events. Using the example of Lower Rhine Embayment (western Germany), we present novel approach for evaluating and optimizing networks EEW purposes. The network optimization is applied simulated earthquake scenarios from...

This article introduces a new family of Generalized Exponentiated Exponential distribution. Using the T-R{Y} framework, T-Exponentiated Exponential{Y} distributions named Exponential{Frechet} is proposed. Some general properties such as hazard rate function, quantile non-central moment, mode, mean absolute deviations and Shannon’s entropy are discussed. A continuous univariate probability distr...

This interaction profile discusses and evaluates the evidence for joint toxic action among lead, manganese, zinc, and copper. The interaction profile recommends how to incorporate concerns about possible interactions or additivity into public health assessments of hazardous waste sites where people might be exposed to mixtures of these chemicals. The profile recommends using endpoint-specific h...

Determining the likelihood of a disaster is a key component of any comprehensive hazard assessment. This is particularly true for tsunamis, even though most tsunami hazard assessments have in the past relied on scenario or deterministic type models. We discuss probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA) from the standpoint of integrating computational methods with empirical analysis of past ts...

Residential location choice modeling is one of the areas in transportation planning that attempts to examine households location search behavior incorporating their trade-offs between housing quality, prices or rents, distance to work and other key factors. This brings up the need to come up with methods to logically allocate credible choice alternatives for individuals.This article attempts to...

Background: There have been growing concerns about environmental pollution and public health issues associated with metal(loid)s and radionuclides. As a baseline for monitorisation, radioactivity and specific metal(loid) levels have been measured to investigate the estimated environmental health risks in Igdir province at the Turkish side of the border, in the vicinity of the Metsamor Nuclear P...

BACKGROUND When considering treatment options, a physician needs to know the prognosis corresponding to the risk profile of the patient seeking treatment. Reports of clinical trials generally address treatment-specific survival probabilities only in the aggregate, i.e., for the typical patient, and often express the difference in survival as a hazard ratio. Such summaries do not provide treatme...