Insuring Rapid and Robust Safety Assessment

Multi-scale Robust Modelling of Landslide Susceptibility: Regional Rapid Assessment and Catchment Robust Fuzzy Ensemble

Landslide susceptibility assessment is a fundamental component of effective landslide prevention. One of the main challenges in landslides forecasting is the assessment of spatial distribution of landslide susceptibility. Despite the many different approaches, landslide susceptibility assessment still remains a challenge. A semi-quantitative method is proposed combining heuristic, deterministic...

Rapid safety assessment of a seasonal intradermal trivalent influenza vaccine

Seasonal influenza vaccine formulations must be updated annually to correspond to the influenza viruses in circulation. This was an uncontrolled, open-label, multi-center phase IV study conducted in Belgium to comply with interim European Medicines Agency (EMA) guidelines for rapidly evaluating the safety of newly formulated seasonal influenza vaccines. Adult volunteers received one dose of the...

Deterioration and maintenance models for insuring safety of civil infrastructures at lowest life - cycle cost 1

The purpose of the paper is to describe and compare deterioration and maintenance models for civil infrastructures. These models can be applied to determine the best maintenance strategy to insure an adequate level of safety at minimal life-cycle cost while taking the uncertainties in the deterioration process into account. Without being complete, a time-dependent deterioration process can be m...

Insuring Liability Risks

Insuring emerging markets

8 The Journal of financial transformation As a result of domestic and external factors, capital flows to emerging market economies are highly volatile. All too often, these economies experience severe financial distress, which in some instances lead them to the country-equivalent of bankruptcy. Recently, the IMF and the U.S. Treasury have come up with plans to facilitate an orderly restructurin...