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...

Abstract While earthquakes can have a devastating impact on the economic growth and social welfare of earthquake prone regions, probabilistic seismic risk assessment be employed to assess mitigate such risks from future destructive events. In previous study (Sianko et al. in Bull Earthq Eng 18:2523–2555, 2020), hazard analysis (PSHA) tool based Monte-Carlo approach, was developed predict for hi...

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...

Structural collapse is traditionally associated with the exceedance of a target value of inter-story drift or plastic hinge rotation at structural components. However, such an approach may not accurately estimate the structural collapse potential due to load redistribution and variation of structural damage within the structure. Moreover, collapse prediction may be sensitive to such assumed thr...

Iran is located in a seismically active region and exposed to seismic activity from many seismic sources and active faults. Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment is the basis for many pre and postearthquake risk management issues. Definition and parameterization of active faults and seismic sources are among the most important aspect for reliable PSHA studies. In this paper an effort in desig...

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...