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Multi-Factor Coupled Assessment of Seismic Disaster Risk for Buildings: A Case Study of Ankang City

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This study presents a multi-factor coupled assessment of seismic disaster risk for approximately 635,000 individual building units in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, China, utilizing a high-resolution dataset.
Dan Shao, Hao Ren, Rui Duan, Qinhu Tian, Weichao Zhang   +4 more
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Employing Multi Attributes Decision Making Techniques for Rating the Supply Chain Risk Factors (Case Study: the field of information technology in small and medium enterprises) [PDF]

Muṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Ṣan̒atī, 2011
Supply chain is a network of independent organizations that cooperate with each other, in order to control, manage and improve material and information flow from suppliers to final consumers to meet customer satisfaction.
Haidar Mirfakhroddini, Davood Andalib Ardakani, Morteza Rezaei Asl   +2 more
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Development application of FMEA risk assessment model for indoor air pollutants in healthcare organizations: Focus on suspended particles and bioaerosols in hospitals

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This study aimed to develop the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Decision Matrix Risk Assessment (DMRA) technique for the first time to assess risks associated with particulate matter (PM) and bioaerosol transmission in hospitals.
Mahbubeh Tangestani, Ahmad Jonidi Jafari, Majid Kermani, Roshanak Rezaei Kalantary   +3 more
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Modeling of the Acute Toxicity of Benzene Derivatives by Complementary QSAR Methods [PDF]

, 2013
A data set containing acute toxicity values (96-h LC50) of 69 substituted benzenes for fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) was investigated with two Quantitative Structure- Activity Relationship (QSAR) models, either using or not using molecular ...
Bertinetto, Carlo, Duce, Celia, Héberger, Károly, Solaro, Roberto   +3 more
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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi [PDF]

, 2010
This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do ...
Nillesen, E.E.M., Verwimp, P.
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Improved model for human health risk assessment of soil heavy metal(loid)s in a mining area of southeastern China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) in mining soils pose potential health risks through direct exposure pathways. This study assessed the contamination levels and health risks of eight HMs in soils from a mining area using a health risk assessment (HRA) model ...
Lei Sun, Xiaohui Wang, Yafeng Liu, Jian Huang, Shanshan Xi, Lin Shi, Yuanyang Song, Mengxi Qi, Chun Guo   +8 more
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The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Indonesia’s Exports to the USA: An Application of ARDL Bounds Testing Procedure [PDF]

This paper investigates the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate volatility on Indonesia’s exports of priority commodities to the United States of America over the monthly period 1997-2005.
Arief Bustaman, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
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Assessment of the risk of rapid progression of chronic kidney disease

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Background. All over the world, chronic kidney di­sease (CKD) is a global problem. Prevention of CKD development, as well as the rapid progression of CKD, are the priority tasks of modern nephrology.
L.D. Denova, D.D. Ivanov
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USE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MODELING INFLOW AND OUTFLOW AND SALINITY OF LAKE FETZARA IN THE REGION-ANNABA (NE ALGERIA)

Food and Environment Safety, 2022
Lake Fetzara is one of the important lakes in the northeast of Algeria; the water supplying this lake comes from different precipitation and wadis. Moreover, Meboudja wadi constitutes the drainage channel.
Zahra BOUHALI, Larbi DJABRI, Hamza BOUGUERRA, Fatma TRABELSI, Azzedine HANI, Hicham CHAFFAI   +5 more
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Depositor preference legislation and failed banks' resolution costs [PDF]

An examination of the empirical impact of depositor preference legislation (DPL) on resolution type and resolution costs for commercial banks. It focuses on the impact of state DPL statutes, using FDIC and call-report data on resolution costs and types ...
James B. Thomson, William P. Osterberg
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