Abstract: The prospect of China’s wind power industry is bright, but from the angle of investment, investment amount, operation and maintenance costs of wind power project are relatively high, at the same time, it is facing high policy risk and environment risk. Therefore, we should consider all kinds of risk factors to make appropriate risk management and control plan. Based on this, the paper...

The paper discusses in the context of nanotechnology whether current concepts of chemical risk assessment can be used to assess nanorisk. Nanorisk can be defined from the narrow (eco) toxicological perspective to the broader sense to include societal/cultural impacts or even to the fundamental philosophical level i.e. questioning societies need for the technology. We outline here the limitation...

The electricity systems have a central role to play in the transition towards a low carbon economy and integration of renewable energy sources in the European Union. However, the European electricity networks face a diverse set of existing and new risks that can hamper the energy security of member countries. This paper aims to qualitatively and quantitatively assess these risks given the chang...

In this study, we analyze the aerospace stocks prices in order to characterize the sector behavior. The data analyzed cover the period from January 1987 to April 1999. We present a new index for the aerospace sector and we investigate the statistical characteristics of this index. Our results show that this index is well described by Tsallis distribution. We explore this result and modify the s...

Industrial maintenanceoperations involve various occupational risks. Despite the accidents that have occurred, there has not been any task-based risk assessment tool for companies. A study was carried out with the aim of defining the requirements for a task-based risk assessment tool for industrial maintenance. The study charted risks on sites, the occurrence and type of severe and fatal accide...

There has been a rapid expansion of the professional literature in risk assessment with sexual offenders over the past 20 years. However, recent professional experience suggests that risk assessment reports often fail to be as relevant or useful as they might be for judicial decision-makers. Research with large samples of offenders has refined our understanding of identifiable subgroups with di...

Objective The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the concept of perceived barriers in health promotion for risk factor reduction, and to describe a ‘Perceived barriers and lifestyle risk factor modification model’ which could potentially be incorporated into existing frameworks for diabetes education to enhance lifestyle risk factor education in women with type 2 diabetes. Sett...