Living in areas of highly active natural processes as the alpine environment demands the careful assessment of natural hazards and their provision in regional and local development planning processes, providing the chance to substantially reduce damage and loss of property and lives. Consequently techniques for the corresponding tasks of mapping and monitoring natural hazards are subject of ong...

Corresoonding Author: Suja M. Aboukhamseen Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait Email: [email protected] Abstract: In this study, we have considered the proportional hazard version of the inverse Weibull distribution. It has been shown that the density and hazard rate functions are unimodal and the mean...

Due to the expected climate change driven increase of extreme weather events, damage risks for infrastructure and buildings are rising. Hence spatial decision-support material is necessary to enhance risk management and planning strategies. The presented study contributes to this topic by means of an analysis of cloud-to-ground lightning patterns and their impact on structural facilities using ...

In this paper we introduce a kind of asymmetric distribution for nonnegative data called log-proportional hazard distribution (LPHF). This new distribution is used to study an asymmetrical regression model for data with limited responses (censored) through the mixture of a Bernoulli distribution with logit link and the LPHF distribution. Properties of the LPHF distribution are studied, maximum ...

This study tests whether international reserve accumulation is inflationary because of moral hazard and incentive effects. We use the 2009 allocation Special Drawing Rights (SDR) as a natural experiment to trace effect an exogenous nonmonetary shock on International Monetary Fund members' holdings. In countries that received large SDR allocations, inflation was about half percentage point highe...

Introduction: One of the sources of natural occurring radiation was soils. The purpose of article was to determine soil pollution by radiation absorbed dose rate, radium equivalent activity, external hazard index, annual gonad dose equivalent and annual effective dose equivalent. Methods & Materials: The soil samples was located in Chahbahar city in Blouchestan of Iran, was chosen for studyin...