Investigations of major accidents show that technical, human, operational, as well as organisational factors influence the accident sequences. In spite of these facts, quantitative risk analyses of offshore oil and gas production platforms have focused on technical safety systems. This paper presents a method (called BORA-Release) for qualitative and quantitative risk analysis of the platform s...

Neuroblastoma is an embryonal malignancy of the sympathetic nervous system arising from neuroblasts. It is the most common solid tumor in children under the age of 5 and accounts for 8-10% of all childhood cancers (Brodeur & Maris, 2006). The disease occurs almost exclusively in infants and children below the age of 4, with median age of diagnosis approximately 17 months (Ries et al., 1999; Lon...

The way in which probabilistic information is framed has an effect on risky decision-making. Typically, the bias created through information framing in Asian disease-type problems results in risk-averse decisions associated with a negative frame and risk-seeking decisions associated with a positive frame. Three laboratory experiments are reported that investigate quantity of information and for...

ISPOR 18th Annual European Congress; 7-11 November 2015. Milan, Italy. The tobacco industry is developing candidate modified risk tobacco products (cMRTPs) with the potential to reduce individual risk and population harm in comparison to smoking combustible cigarettes. In 2012, the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Draft Guidance on MRTPs requesting applicants t...

By applying multiple logistic regression to data from the 1980 National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey, independent risk factors for readmission to an acute care hospital within 31 days of the preceding discharge were identified. Subjects who were initially admitted for a high-risk condition, those with poor perceived health status, and those who had no surgical procedures perf...

This study sought to identify factors influencing maternal-fetal attachment in high-risk pregnancy in Korea. Data were collected between March 3 and 30, 2015 via structured questionnaires completed by 118 pregnant women visiting an obstetric clinic for prenatal tests or referred to university hospitals in three metropolitan areas for pregnancy maintenance. Data were analyzed, using IBM SPSS ver...

Wildfire in forests and rangelands, apart from its initiating causes, is considered as an ecological disaster. Zoning natural areas according to their susceptibility to fire helps to put off operations and reduces catastrophic losses caused through a wise management plan. In this study, the zoning map of wildfire risk in forest and rangeland areas has been produced using GIS, Analytical Hierarc...