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The organization of risk management at FIAT

Technology, Law and Insurance, 2000
Broader dimensions of risk, the changing role of risk management and regulatory oversight are driving enterprises to adopt an integrated approach to risk management. The organizational design of risk management adopted by FIAT is illustrated here and discussed.
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Learning How Organizations Mitigate Risk

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1996
Over time, more and more organizations, whose technical and industrial activities are capable of causing perceptible adverse public effects, feel pressure from their external environment to greatly reduce the incidence of errors or failure. This paper describes the first phase of research designed to extend the HRO findings and approaches to studying ...
Thomas Mannarelli, Karlene H. Roberts, Robert G. Bea   +2 more
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Delineating Organs at Risk in Radiation Therapy

2013
Defining organs at risk is a crucial task for radiation oncologists when aiming to optimize the benefit of radiation therapy, with delivery of the maximum dose to the tumor volume while sparing healthy tissues. This book will prove an invaluable guide to the delineation of organs at risk of toxicity in patients undergoing radiotherapy.
Giampiero Ausili Cefaro, Domenico Genovesi, Carlos A. Perez   +2 more
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Genetically Modified Organisms and Risk

2010
Abstract This chapter considers the concept of risk as it applies to the regulation of GMOs. In so doing, it examines the oftentimes problematic, yet still dominant, hybrid scientific and political character of risk regulation in the arena of agricultural biotechnology and its legal ramifications.
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[Delineation of organs at risk and dose constraints].

Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique, 2017
From a review of literature, the objective of this paper is to define limits for delineation of organs at risk and dose constraints in this latter when radiotherapy is delivered with conventional fractionation or with hypofractionation as for stereotactic body radiation therapy.
G, Noël, D, Antoni, I, Barillot, B, Chauvet   +3 more
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The Organs at Risk and Radiation Tolerance Doses

2012
During the last two decades, early diagnosis and better treatment options have improved the survival rates of breast cancer patients [1]. Radiotherapy (RT) is an essential component of the treatment of patients with early and locally advanced disease and has been shown to reduce local recurrence risk by approximately 20% and breast cancer mortality ...
Senem Demirci Alanyalı, Naim Ceylan, Ayfer Haydaroglu   +2 more
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The sigmoid: An organ at risk

Brachytherapy, 2007
Beth A. Erickson, Tracy R. Kelly, Jason Rownd   +2 more
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Genetically modified organisms and risks of their introduction

Russian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2005
The major goal of this review is to assess food risks of the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops. The author analyzes the properties of the several classes of target proteins used in the transgenic constructions and discusses the problems that arise due to the pleiotropic action of transgenic proteins, the horizontal transfer of the ...
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How Nonprofit Organizations Manage Risk

2009
The purpose of this essay is to identify the kinds of decisions where nonprofit organizations need to manage their risks in a strategic fashion, to review what is known about how they approach these decisions, and to offer a conceptual framework that nonprofits can use to develop a more sophisticated and effective approach to their risk-management ...
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Multi-task learning for the segmentation of organs at risk with label dependence

Medical Image Analysis, 2020
Tao He, Junjie Hu, Jixiang Guo
exaly