Risk Abstracts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Risk
ISBN : CORNELL:31924056794559

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Risk Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134013128

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Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice by Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop Pdf

Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Based on the work of leading researchers, this book provides an overview of advances in this important subject. It covers all aspects of flood risk including the causes of floods; their impacts on people, property and the environment; and portfolios of risk management measurement. Additional topics include climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modeling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programs, and flood defense infrastructure and assets. The book also examines environmental, human, and social impacts; vulnerability and resilience; risk sharing; and civil contingency planning and emergency management.

Author : Laura Lieto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8874313691

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Planning for the risk society by Laura Lieto Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UOM:39015034738271

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Selected Water Resources Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Traffic engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112041724979

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Traffic Systems Reviews and Abstracts by United States. Federal Highway Administration Pdf

Author : Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1772 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203883020

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Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice by Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop Pdf

Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Across the European Union, flood management policy is changing in response to the EU Directive on the ass

Author : Sabine Roeser,Rafaela Hillerbrand,Per Sandin,Martin Peterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400754553

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Essentials of Risk Theory by Sabine Roeser,Rafaela Hillerbrand,Per Sandin,Martin Peterson Pdf

Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory. This brief offers the essentials of the handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research and addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoretical issues concerning risk and uncertainty. The Essentials of Risk Theory brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. The Essentials of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives. ​

Author : International Life Sciences Institute,United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:80662174

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Risk Assessment of Essential Elements by International Life Sciences Institute,United States. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychopharmacology
ISBN : OSU:32435025080250

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Psychopharmacology Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00101594

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New Digest of Insurance Decisions, Fire and Marine, Together with an Abstract of the Law by Hine Pdf

Author : Institute of actuaries students' society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064510178

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Extra Risks; Notes & Abstracts of Papers Arranged by Institute of actuaries students' society Pdf

Author : Wanda M. Haschek,Brad Bolon,Colin G. Rousseaux,Matthew A. Wallig
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128098424

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Fundamentals of Toxicologic Pathology by Wanda M. Haschek,Brad Bolon,Colin G. Rousseaux,Matthew A. Wallig Pdf

Fundamentals of Toxicologic Pathology, Third Edition, presents an essential overview of systems toxicologic pathology in a clear-and-concise manner. Toxicologic pathology integrates toxicology and its interdisciplinary components, including biochemistry, pharmacodynamics and risk assessment to pathology and its related disciplines, such as physiology, microbiology, immunology and molecular biology. This wholly revised and updated edition presents the newest information on the topic, and is an essential reference for advanced students, early career researchers, toxicologic pathologists, pharmaceutical scientists, medical pathologists and clinicians, and anyone involved with drug and device development. The book includes a new section describing the application of toxicologic pathology, such as diagnostic and forensic toxicologic pathology, environmental toxicologic pathology, experimental and industrial toxicologic pathology, and pathology issues in the design of toxicology studies. There are also new chapters on special senses (the eye and ear) and the biochemical and molecular basis of toxicity, among others. Presents revised and updated information for each chapter on systems Contains expanded sections on applied toxicologic pathology Includes the essential information necessary to understand toxicologic pathology in an accessible language

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4919331

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Risk by Anonim Pdf

Author : Parklawn Health Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : SRLF:D0007295264

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Parklawn Health Library & Prince George Center Branch, Periodicals-1987 by Parklawn Health Library Pdf

Author : J. Geweke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401128384

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Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty by J. Geweke Pdf

As desired, the infonnation demand correspondence is single valued at equilibrium prices. Hence no planner is needed to assign infonnation allocations to individuals. Proposition 4. For any given infonnation price system p E . P (F *), almost every a E A demands a unique combined infonnation structure (although traders may be indifferent among partial infonnation sales from different information allocations, etc. ). In particular, the aggregate excess demand correspondence for net combined infonnation trades is a continuous function. Proof Uniqueness fails only if an agent can obtain the same expected utility from two or more net combined infonnation allocations. If this happens, appropriate slight perturbations of personal probability vectors destroy the equality unless the utility functions and wealth allocations were independent across states. Yet, when utilities and wealths don't depend on states in S, no infonnation to distinguish the states is desired, so that the demand for such infonnation structures must equal zero. To show the second claim, recall that if the correspondence is single valued for almost every agent, then its integral is also single valued. Finally, note that an upper hemicontinuous (by Proposition 2) correspondence which is single valued everywhere is, in fact, a continuous function. [] REFERENCES Allen, Beth (1986a). "The Demand for (Differentiated) Infonnation"; Review of Economic Studies. 53. (311-323). Allen, Beth (1986b). "General Equilibrium with Infonnation Sales"; Theory and Decision. 21. (1-33). Allen, Beth (1990). "Infonnation as an Economic Commodity"; American Economic Review. 80. (268-273).