in the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. this leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. the advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. the selection of criteria of p...

conclusions managers and service providers need to know an ordinary woman’s perception of risk to address the gap between current and desired childbirth services and encourage women to use current hospital services. objectives this study explains how baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. this study identifies and defines the factor...

introduction: nowadays ionizing radiation has a considerable contribution in medical diagnostic and treatment. using ionizing radiation is increasing rapidly, so biological effects of ionizing radiation should be considered more. x-rays in the range of diagnostic radiology have hazardous effects and risks that are defined as random effects. these effects obey the lnt hypothesis that occur at lo...

some incidents in urban railway systems affect the function of the subway’s company adversely and they could disorder the services. these events may inflict irreparable damage to passengers, employees and equipment. by recognizing the hazards existing in this type of transportation system and evaluating and prioritizing risks, we can perform appropriate actions to reduce the probability and sev...

As outsourcing is becoming mandate for today’s business, there has been a variety of researches taking place. This paper discusses on managing operational risks in an organization where one or more business processes are being outsourced. We first review on changing nature of operational risks not only in outsourced process itself, but also among any other interrelated processes. Then a concept...

The economic relevance of IT risks is increasing due to various operational, technical as well as regulatory reasons. Increasing flexibility of business processes and increasing dependability on IT require continuous risk assessment, challenging current methods for risk management. Extending IT risk management by a business process-oriented view is a promising approach for taking the occurring ...

background: a cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the gaza strip, palestine.  materials and methods: a 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the gaza strip. another 30-item questionnaire was completed by university students...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...