The ever-increasing population living near active volcanoes highlights the need for implementation of effective risk reduction measures to save lives and reduce impact volcanic unrest eruptions. To help identify systems associated with potential high prioritize strategies, we introduce a new Volcanic Risk Ranking (VRR) methodology that integrates hazard, exposure, vulnerability as factors incre...

UAE Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in socio-economic transformation, poverty reduction, job creation, wealth creation. However, most SMEs faced unsustainable growth due to lack of managing risk. Hence, this paper presents study on the ranking risk management practices that influence SMEs' organizational performance UAE. The has identified 11 factors, these factors...

Priority risk groups for influenza vaccination 4 SUMMARY At the request of the European Commission, ECDC has conducted a scientific public health review concerning influenza risk groups * and other groups that are offered immunisation against seasonal influenza in Europe. The specific objectives of this study were: • to describe the risk groups recommended for immunisation in the EU/EEA countri...

The widespread use of the Internet has significantly changed the behavior of homebuyers. Using information technology, homebuyers can rapidly find an appropriate house that meets their needs. Although online real estate agents can screen out first based on homebuyers’ requirements, however, most of current online housing systems are of limited abilities, particularly without considering homebuy...

Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) is one of user friendly and handy tool available in the hands of the process industries to identifying and eliminating the potential failures in systems, processes and designing. In this FMEA method prioritization of the failure modes are based on Risk Priority Number (RPN). This RPN can be calculated by multiplying the scores of various risk factors and cate...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a critical life-threatening event which frequently warrants early defibrillation with an automated external defibrillator (AED). The optimization of allocating a limited number of AEDs in various types of communities is challenging. We aimed to propose a two-stage modeling framework including spatial accessibility evaluation ...