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Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems and Perspectives in Different Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The authors discuss various industrial accidents, which have led to growing concerns about the potential hazards and risks involved in chemical process ...
Gurjar, Bhola Ram, Mohan, Manju
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The Volcanic Hazards Assessment Support System for the Online Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation of Quaternary Volcanoes in the World

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2017
Volcanic hazards assessment tools are essential for risk mitigation of volcanic activities. A number of offline volcanic hazard assessment tools have been provided, but in most cases, they require relatively complex installation procedure and usage. This
Shinji Takarada
doaj   +1 more source

Cables and fire hazards [PDF]

open access: yes
Besides describing the experiments conducted to develop a nonflammable cable, this article discusses several considerations regarding other hazards which might result from cable fires, particularly the toxicity and opacity of the fumes emitted by the ...
Beretta, G., Philbrick, S., Zanelli, C.
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Urban droughts and floods in Maiduguri: twin hazards of a variable climate [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Maiduguri, an important city in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa, experiences both drought and floods. Although droughts are more popular, floods are a seasonal occurrence in parts of the city in the average rainy season.
Odihi, John O.
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Hazards to space workers from ionizing radiation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
A compilation of background information and a preliminary assessment of the potential risks to workers from the ionizing radiation encountered in space is provided.
Lyman, J. T.
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Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008
During the past four decades (1960–2000), the United States experienced major transformations in population size, development patterns, economic conditions, and social characteristics.
S. Cutter, Christina Finch
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Asymptotics for posterior hazards [PDF]

open access: yes
An important issue in survival analysis is the investigation and the modeling of hazard rates. Within a Bayesian nonparametric framework, a natural and popular approach is to model hazard rates as kernel mixtures with respect to a completely random ...
Giovanni Peccati   +2 more
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Looking Back: Cyclamate [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The second in a series re-evaluating hazards identified in the 1950s and ...
Jacobson, Kevin, Mazur, Allan
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Space vehicle propulsion systems: Environmental space hazards [PDF]

open access: yes
The hazards that exist in geolunar space which may degrade, disrupt, or terminate the performance of space-based LOX/LH2 rocket engines are evaluated.
Bahr, G. K., Disimile, P. J.
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Identification of a competing risks model with unknown transformations of latent failure times [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper is concerned with identification of a competing risks model with unknown transformations of latent failure times. The model in this paper includes, as special cases, competing risks versions of proportional hazards, mixed proportional ...
Lee, S.
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