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Programme 2011-2012

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Séminaire, EHESS Vendredi 21 octobre. Incendies et industrie, politiques de prévention et d’indemnisation. Niels Van Manen (Université d’Amsterdam) « Mapping Risks: Goad's fire insurance plans (end 19th c.) » Atelier de discussion avec Liliane ...
mthebaud
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From Forecast to Action: Using Flood Impact Storylines to Optimize Mobile Levee Deployment and Emergency Response Strategies

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management
Preparing for unprecedented natural hazard events is challenging because the lack of records and experience makes it impossible to know how such events will unfold.
Lukas Munz   +4 more
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Introduction: Deterrence by Denial and the Long Journey of Addressing Biological Weapons Risks

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Deterrence by denial is a classic defense strategy in which the goal is to offset an adversary’s capabilities in ways that deny them success in achieving their intended military or strategic effects. If their modes of attack are unlikely to succeed – but
Christine Parthemore, Andy Weber
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Competing-risks regression in Stata 11 [PDF]

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Competing-risks survival regression provides a useful alternative to Cox regression in the presence of one or more competing risks. For example, say that you are studying the time from initial treatment for cancer to recurrence of cancer in relation to ...
Roberto G. Gutierrez
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Search for signals of positive selection of circadian rhythm genes PER1, PER2, PER3 in different human populations

open access: yesВавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
The diversity of geographically distributed human populations shows considerable variation in external and internal traits of individuals. Such differences are largely attributed to genetic adaptation to various environmental influences, which include ...
A. I. Mishina   +10 more
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Dealing with Major Technological Risks [PDF]

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This article is concerned with the management of major hazards stemming from technology and entailing potentially dreadful consequences. It proposes a brief survey of the0501n difficulties and policy issues arising both in public and private decision ...
Carel Vachon, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
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Perceived information technology risks and attitudes [PDF]

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Risk has been a focal dimension in much of the debate about attitudes toward technology. In the present paper, the development of research on risk perception is reviewed, from its beginnings in the end of the 1960's.
Sjöberg, Lennart
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Risks Impact on the Accommodation and Food Services Sector: the Case of Latvia

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The purpose of this work is to research risks impact on the commercial activity of the accommodation and food services sector’s enterprises. The authors have created the accommodation (hotel) and food services technological process flow map and ...
Jansone, Inga, Voronova, Irina
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The safest dependence structure among risks. [PDF]

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In this paper, we investigate the dependence in Frechet spaces containing mutually exclusive risks. It is shown that, under some reasonable assumptions, the safest dependence structure, in the sense of the minimal stop-loss premiums for the aggregate ...
Denuit, Michel, Dhaene, Jan
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