The aim of the paper is to compare the general risk of the four most important energy chains (coal, nuclear, gas, hydro). Two different multicriteria decision models, the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the PROMETHEE method have been applied. The chosen risk criteria are: severe accidents, terrorism, environmental and health risks, risk of price changes. The first part of the paper discusses the...

Security assessments for communication networks play an important risk management role because they allow risks to be prioritized for mitigation or risk acceptance. Qualitative risk assessments that involve intangible elements require the subjective judgment of the security analyst completing the risk assessment and this may lead to low confidence in the results due to a perception that evaluat...

The article by Elbogen et al. makes a valuable contribution to the little-studied connection between documentation of violence risk information and risk management. Some clinicians neither take the time nor have the inclination to document violence risk assessments adequately. When the clinician is confronted with a patient at imminent risk of becoming violent toward others or himself, the clin...

evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers     mirzakhani k [1] *, jahani shorab n [2] , golmakani n [3] , tafazoli m [4] , ebrahimzadeh s [5]     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : suitable midwifery skills could prevent many deaths of maternal, fetal,...

in order to use an islamic financial instrument, this paper intends to measure and evaluate negative and positive deviations from target rate of return in investment opportunity evaluation,that leads to presenting an upside potential- adjusted risk measure. this risk measure named upside potential adjusted risk measure (alpm) is generally applicable and provides assumptions of variance, downsid...

In this paper, we outline some concepts relating to the use of stress testing in credit risk management. We begin by providing a simple taxonomy of stress scenarios and discussing the trade-offs that different approaches require for implementation. Our taxonomy is modeled after one that is common in the credit literature and involves concepts related to reducedform and structural approaches to ...