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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2017 The prediction of wildfire occurrence is an important component of fire management. We have developed probabilistic daily fire prediction models for a Mediterranean region of Europe (Cyprus) at the mesoscale, based on Poisson regression.
Papakosta P, Straub D
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Work-related road safety: An analysis based on U.K. bus driver performance [PDF]
, 2008 The effects of age and experience on accident involvement for bus drivers were investigated, with special emphasis upon the first years of being an operator, using two methods.
af Wåhlberg, Anders, +3 more
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, 2006 Differences in environmental priorities within an urban neighborhood of Beirut are analyzed. The explanatory capabilities of five categories of contextual variables are compared: socioeconomic status, locality, health, behavior, and environmental beliefs.
Makhoul, Jihad +4 more
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Risk-based valuations and performance analysis for life insurance contracts
, 2017 The project intends to develop a methodological framework for a comprehensive analysis of both demographic and financial risks in life insurance contracts, based on Value at Risk (VaR) methodologies and able to address the complex equilibrium between ...
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the value of multiple data sources available to fulfill surveillance objectives, and the use of these has been applied to address many questions relating to animal health surveillance. In Ireland,
Jamie A. Tratalos +6 more
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Foot-and-mouth disease in Armenia (1958–2003): Historical epidemiology, serotype dynamics, and evolving vaccination strategies [PDF]
Veterinary WorldBackground and Aim: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious transboundary animal disease affecting cloven-hoofed livestock, with significant economic and trade implications.
Henrik Voskanyan +5 more
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Information Presentation in Decision and Risk Analysis: Answered, Partly Answered, and Unanswered Questions [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 Society for Risk Analysis For the last 30 years, researchers in risk analysis, decision analysis, and economics have consistently proven that decisionmakers employ different processes for evaluating and combining anticipated and actual losses ...
Wang, Y +5 more
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Post-decision consolidation and distortion of facts
Judgment and Decision Making, 2009 Participants decided whom of two patients to prioritize for surgery in three studies. The factual quantitative information about the patients (e.g., probability of surviving surgery) was given in vignette form with case descriptions on Visual Analogue ...
Ola Svenson, Ilkka Salo, Torun Lindholm
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Defending the Conception of “Objective Risk”
, 2011 The notion of objective risk is frequently discussed within the risk literature. While some argue that risk analysis measures objective risk, others claim that there are no real, objective risksonly subjective descriptions of them.
Hermansson, Hélène,, Helene Hermansson
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Meat spoilage by bacteria: Influencing factors, volatile compounds, and organoleptic alterations
Food Science of Animal ResourcesThis review provides an understanding of spoilage factors of meat, the spoilage bacteria, the spoilage mode of major spoilage bacteria, and alterations due to spoilage.
Joohyun Kang, Byung Hee Kim, Yohan Yoon
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