Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by the University of Waterloo's Centre for Information Systems Assurance. We are grateful to Scott Paquette and Gary Baker for help in administering the experiment. 2 ABSTRACT This study investigates the effectiveness of alternative methods for documenting business processes for the purpose of performing an assessment of risks and...

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...

background development of complications during gynecologic laparoscopic surgery depends on many factors such as history of previous laparotomies. this factor usually increases the veres and first trocar complications. objectives in this study, we compared all operative complications between the patients with and without previous abdominal surgery. patients and methods all operative complication...

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used quality improvement and risk assessment tool in manufacturing. Design and process failures recorded through FMEA provides valuable knowledge for future product and process design. However, the way the knowledge is captured poses considerable difficulties for reuse. This research aims to contribute to the reuse of FMEA knowledge through a ...

background: repeated applications of animal manure as fertilizer are normal agricultural practices in malaysia that may release veterinary antibiotics to environment from treated animals. methods: environmental risk assessment (era) on 5 commonly used antibiotics and one hormone in malaysian broiler farm was calculated using the ratio of measured environmental concentration (mec) and predicted ...

background: new technologies using hazardous materials usually have certain risks. it is more serious when the technology is supposed to be applied in a large scale and become widely used by many people. the objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk of vapor cloud explosion in a hydrogen production process. methods: potential hazards were identified using the conventional hazard identifi...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been developing the Integrated Safety Assessment Model (ISAM) to provide a baseline risk assessment for the National Airspace System and to evaluate the safety impact of proposed changes to the system. ISAM consists of a set of event sequence diagrams and underlying fault trees for various accident scenarios. In the current model, all basic events i...

background: in the refractory brick manufacturing industry, because of the high risks associated with the level of dust in the factory environment and thermal stress, a precise identification of industrial hazards is required as a part of safety analysis. the aim of this study was to introduce a preventive approach to risk identification and assessment in the refractory brick production line.  ...