crop insurance is one of the best strategies to tackle farm risks and encourage producers to adopt modern production technologies. in present study, a sample of 224 insured and uninsured pistachio growers was selected for interview and collected required data using a simple random sampling method. then a logit multinomial model was used to assess factors affecting the choice of supplemental ins...

Objective: The objective of this paper was to identify the determinants patronage agricultural insurance in Delta north zone, State Nigeria. Material and Methods: A multistage sampling technique used select 120 respondents. Data were obtained through questionnaire administration. Descriptive statistics, logit model, t-test employed study. Results: findings showed that mean age 48 years with 59....

the effect of forest roads on the extent and type of fire damage occurred in forests and rangelands of the neka county in mazandaran province was investigated. for this purpose, all fire spots, stand number, percentage and type of injury and damage to tree species, and average diameter at breast height (dbh) were noted with 100% inventory; area and geographic location of access roads were deter...

introduction: supplementary health care services are provided to offer health care services beyond existing medical services at a reasonable cost to all members. these supplementary health care services contribute to the health and quality of life of the members and therefore membership provides peace of mind and a sense of security. this study aimed at investigating supplementary health care s...

Human beings have been in search of security right from nomadic days. The history mankind is a the for security. Man had to face dangers and risk which threatened his very existence. As an individual he would found it difficult combat these external dangers. He therefore started living group, thereby ensuring group cover against possible greatest was course, that death, wild animals, snakes, cr...

natural fire inflicting irreparable damage to rangelands and forest areas is cause changes in landscape ecology. the purpose of this research is comparison of artificial neural network (ann) and line regression (lr) models to predict of forest and rangelands fires to this end, the data consist fire burned area and fire were used weather data over a period of 7 years (2006-2012(.the result indic...

Thank you to Rick Rinehart, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), for hosting what we believe to be a very important opportunity for us all to become involved in a seminal event in safety. I want to take a few minutes to give you some insight into an insurance company's perspective on the fundamental value of safety or prevention through design (PtD). Of course,...

background: fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. this study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. materials and methods: the present qualitative case study was conducted using dow’s index in 2015. the fire and explosion hazard index and leve...

In some geographic areas the most significant cause of variation in total dollar losses are fortuitous, non-hurricane storms. Many of the models developed to address the issue of such excess wind losses use dollar loss data only. The traditional models may muddy the distinction between large loss procedures and excess wind models, particularly in territorial analysis. Additionally, as new model...