Technology assessment between risk, uncertainty and ignorance
, 2012 The use of most if not all technologies is accompanied by negative side effects, While we may profit from today’s technologies, it is most often future generations who bear most risks.
Hillerbrand, Rafaela
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Perception of risk sources by chilean blueberry producers
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2018 The biological and environmental nature of the agricultural production implies that growers operate in an environment of greater risk as compared to other economic activities.
Germán Lobos +5 more
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Assessing risk amid uncertainty inside and outside the dermatology clinic. [PDF]
J Am Acad Dermatol, 2023 Vanderweil SG +5 more
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The Role of Calcitonin Gene‐Related Peptide in High‐Altitude Headache: A Prospective Field Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective High‐altitude headache (HAH) is a common neurological condition associated with rapid ascent to high altitude. The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying HAH remain incompletely understood. Calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide implicated in migraine pathophysiology, may play a key role in the pathophysiology of ...
Roman Schniepp +4 more
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On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership: Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints [PDF]
In this paper we test for the first time whether the driving force behind the negative effect of income uncertainty on owner-occupancy propensities is risk aversion or credit constraints.
Luis Diaz-Serrano
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Dispelling urban myths about default uncertainty factors in chemical risk assessment - Sufficient protection against mixture effects? [PDF]
, 2013 © 2013 Martin et al.; licensee BioMed Central LtdThis article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Assessing the detrimental health effects of chemicals requires the extrapolation of experimental data in animals to human
Andreas, K, Martin, OV, Martin, S
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Relationship Between Neurologic Symptoms and Signs and FMR1 Genotype in Premutation Carriers
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Fragile X‐associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) is the most severe late‐onset condition caused by a premutation in the FMR1 gene, characterized by expanded CGG triplet repeats of 55–200. Clinical presentations of FXTAS, including gait ataxia, kinetic tremor, cognitive decline, and rare Parkinsonism, are linked to ...
Flora Tassone +8 more
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Macroeconomic and policy uncertainty and Exchange rate risk Premium [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to identify the main determinants of the risk premium in some European currency markets just before the EMU. To that extent, we start from Lucas (1982) exchange rate model and derive an analytical expression for the forward ...
Rodrigo Peruga Urrea +1 more
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy +11 more
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"Irreversible Investment and Knightian Uncertainty" [PDF]
When firms decide about irreversible investment, they may not have perfect confidence about their perceived probability measure describing future uncertainty.
Hiroyuki Ozaki, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura
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