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A Risk Assessment for Consumers of Mourning Doves

Risk Analysis, 1998
Recreational and subsistence hunters and anglers consume a wide range of species, including birds, mammals, fish and shellfish, some of which represent significant exposure pathways for environmental toxic agents. This study focuses on the Department of Energy's (DOE'S) Savannah River Site (SRS), a former nuclear weapons production facility in South ...
J, Burger   +3 more
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A risk assessment for acrylonitrile in consumer products

Science of The Total Environment, 1990
A carcinogenic risk assessment for acrylonitrile in consumer products was prepared as part of the Second Workshop on Pragmatics of Risk Assessment, Bethesda, MD. Data from one inhalation and two oral rat bioassays served as input into several high-to-low-dose mathematical risk extrapolation models. The final unit risk estimates for humans were based on
P K, Johnston, A R, Rock
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Recent developments in consumer credit risk assessment

European Journal of Operational Research, 2007
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Jonathan N. Crook   +2 more
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A Judgment-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Consumer Loans

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2019
Credit to personal consumption is an important activity of the financial system and crucial to the socioeconomic development of a country. It is important, therefore, that the methods and techniques used to evaluate consumer credit risk be as efficient and informative as possible, in order to strengthen decisions to approve or reject credit and ...
Fernando A. F. Ferreira   +4 more
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Social construction of consumer risk assessments

Journal of Consumer Studies & Home Economics, 1994
Subjects in a laboratory experiment were randomly assigned to a condition wherein they were able to discuss potential benefits and risks of a new technology within a small group, or a condition wherein they evaluated the new technology as individuals only.
STEPHEN G. SAPP   +2 more
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Concepts of exposure analysis for consumer risk assessment

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology, 2008
Risk assessment of health hazards introduced by chemicals is based on two basic elements: (i) exposure assessment and (ii) hazard identification. Risk characterisation is performed by comparing the exposure level with the NOAEL to establish the margin of exposure.
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Assessing Consumer Fraud Risk in Insurance Claims

North American Actuarial Journal, 2009
Abstract We present an unsupervised learning method for classifying consumer insurance claims according to their suspiciousness of fraud versus nonfraud. The predictor variables contained within a claim file that are used in this analysis can be binary, ordinal categorical, or continuous variates.
Jing Ai   +2 more
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Pesticide residues and consumer risk assessments

Pesticide Outlook, 2002
Ray Bates summarises the main issues involved in assessing the risks from pesticides in food.
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Risk Assessment: The Consumer as an Intuitive Statistician

2013
The authors present an overview of academic research on risk assessment. Consumers assess risk as though they were intuitive statisticians, combining two distinct processes to arrive at their perceptions of risk. With the bottom-up process, consumers rely on specific, individual-level risk factors.
Priya Raghubir, Robert Latimer
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