Rapid assessment methods Rapid assessment methods are a means to undertake a comprehensive assessment of a public health issue using minimum resources within a limited amount of time. Such methods help plan, develop and implement interventions and monitor service delivery. These methods are typically useful in situations where data are needed quickly, and time and cost factors prohibit the use ...

background: the aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using quick exposure check (qec) and rapid entire body assessment (reba).  materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing and aluminum pr...

The objective of the AREA research is to develop a probabilistic methodology for optimal, in-situ assessment of the environmental parameters most critical to the uncertainty of the acoustic prediction, within constraints of the actual acoustic system configuration and the available tactical REA resources. The goal is an efficient modeling and simulation framework, which allows for real-time pre...

Abstract—This paper presents a methodology for rapidly assessing the likely effect of proposed initiatives. We have applied it to initiatives and metrics for the counter-IED fight, but the method is general. We build a probabilistic model that provides an explicit executable representation of the initiative’s likely impact. The model is used to provide a consistent, explicit explanation to deci...

There is a need to rapidly assess the impact of new technology initiatives on the Counter Improvised Explosive Device battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. The immediate challenge is the need for rapid decisions, and a lack of engineering test data to support the assessment. The rapid assessment methodology exploits available information to build a probabilistic model that provides an explicit execut...

The welfare of an individual depends on its capacity to overcome suboptimal conditions in its environment; otherwise, its physical and psychological health becomes compromised. A situation that clearly indicates lack of control of the environment is the expression of abnormal behaviours, such as stereotypies. This study aimed to verify the well-being of police horses using a new rapid form of w...

Recent studies emphasize the rapid assessment of earthquake source properties, such as moment magnitude, to help alleviate the impact of earthquakes. Depending on local crustal structure, earthquakes occurring at different depths can differ greatly in high-frequency motions, which emphasizes the importance in constraining focal depth for the predictions of strong motions. For large earthquakes,...