A Delphi survey was carried out in an attempt to identify areas of priority in occupational health that should be targeted by research. Previously 53 occupational physicians identified and ranked these areas. These were then assessed by personel managers. There was considerable agreement on priorities between the two groups with musculoskeletal disorders and stress securing the highest ranking.

BACKGROUND Procedures for priority setting need to incorporate both scientific evidence and public values. The aim of this study was to test out a model for priority setting which incorporates both scientific evidence and public values, and to explore use of evidence by a selection of stakeholders and to study reasons for the relative ranking of health care interventions in a setting of extreme...

This paper describes the UNED participation at RepLab 2012 Monitoring Task. Given an entity and a tweet stream containing the entity’s name, the task consists on grouping the tweets in topics and then ranking the identified topics by priority. We tested three different systems to deal with the clustering problem: (i) an agglomerative clustering based on term co-occurrences, (ii) a clustering me...

The "cock-a-doodle-doo" crowing of roosters, which symbolizes the break of dawn in many cultures, is controlled by the circadian clock. When one rooster announces the break of dawn, others in the vicinity immediately follow. Chickens are highly social animals, and they develop a linear and fixed hierarchy in small groups. We found that when chickens were housed in small groups, the top-ranking ...

In this paper, we present a new method for fuzzy risk analysis based on ranking generalized fuzzy numbers with different heights and different spreads. First, we present a new method for ranking generalized fuzzy numbers. The proposed method considers the defuzzified values, the heights and the spreads for ranking generalized fuzzy numbers. Based on the proposed method for ranking generalized f...

When investigating large industrial site with very limited historical information and monitoring data, there will be many challenges to determine the remediation cost strategy. Here author illustrates a methodology of risk assessment management for area. Based on proper conceptual model professional judgement, score card each single can generated, including scores source, path receptors. Eventu...

Project risk management aims to provide insight into the risk profile of a project as to facilitate decision makers to mitigate the impact of risks on project objectives such as budget and time. A popular approach to determine where to focus mitigation efforts, is the use of so-called ranking indices (e.g. the criticality index, the significance index etc.). Ranking indices allow the ranking of...

introduction : risk management nowadays is one of the main concerns of all professions in order to protect themselves as well as keeping a competitive edge in the market. analyzing risks and their consequences (fmea) is one of the techniques of risk assessment which has been used in this research to define and assess risks and prevention measures for the risk. methods : in this descriptive, cro...

In the field of Supply Chain Risk Management, the attitude of managers toward risk affect the tactical decision-making process in collaborative supply chains under an uncertain environment, concerning especially capacity levels, lot-sizing rules, purchasing strategies, production scheduling,..., etc. The issue can be formulated as a sequential decision problem under uncertainty where the custom...

customer satisfaction level depends on level that his expectations would be answered. with identifying customer expectations and implementation them in qfd, this ensures that important and critical demands of customer have been considered. qfd have been used and use for translating customer expectations to different subjects. what has been considered in this study, is qfd usage for translating ...