This paper describes the development of a set of guidelines on the use and integration of digital terrain data for Emergency Risk Management (ERM) planning, specifically in relation to flood hazard. The guidelines were developed by a node of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRC-SI) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with NSW Go...

Background: One of the challenges in construction is the occurrence of numerous accidents. In this regard, risk assessment can play an important role in reducing accidents. The aim of this study was to prepare comprehensive and quantitative checklists to determine the potential hazards in the construction phase. Materials and Methods: The present descriptive and analytical study was carried ...

Any risk management method begins with risk identification intended to detect and classify potential risk items. This paper proposes a methodological process for risk identification by analyzing documents from all departments of an organization ignoring they are hard copies or electronic files. The LDA is used for texts classification which is the core work of the process. To do the text classi...

The Phomopsis is a genus of imperfect plant pathogenic fungus whose hosts comprise several species in different regions of the world, such as grapes, soybean, acacia, hollyhock, velvetleaf, and several other plants. In this study, samples collected from hollyhock, velvetleaf, purple bauhinia, and acacia plants suspected to be infected with Phomopsis fungi. Samples were culture...

Risk identification plays a key role in the success of managing risk. Failure in the identification of risks can cause inadequacy in the whole process of risk management which led to non-achievement of organisational objectives. Tools and techniques facilitate the process of identification, and need to be adopted on the basis of firms’ characteristics. The difficulty to recognise applicable too...