ABSTRACT           Breast cancer remains the most common cancer of women and one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of major advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, the incidence of breast cancer remains high and the treatment of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. This review presents an over...

Consumers are taking unprecedented interest in the way food is produced, processed and marketed and are increasingly calling for their governments to accept greater responsibility for food safety and consumer protection (FAO/WHO, 2003). There is growing concern for ways in assessing possible preventive and corrective actions in order to develop new practices to reduce or eliminate different haz...

The traditional event tree analysis uses a single probability to represent each top event. However, it is unrealistic to evaluate the occurrence of each event by using a crisp value without considering the inherent uncertainty and imprecision a state has. The fuzzy set theory is universally applied to deal with this kind of phenomena. The main purpose of this study is to construct an easy metho...

The Residency Review and Redesign Project (RP), a 4-year study of pediatrics training supported by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Foundation, concluded with recommendations to develop a process to foster ongoing innovation in education rather than a product such as a curriculum that could quickly become outdated. To that end, the ABP began funding the Initiative for Innovation in Pediat...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach to regulatory oversight of the commercial nuclear power industry that is riskinformed and performance-based. While these concepts can, and have been, used in rulemaking and licensing activities, this paper focuses on the regulatory oversight activities of Assessment, Inspection, and Enforcement. The paper provides a discussion of the deter...

Few studies have focused on estimating the relative effects of risk factors on IT project performance This paper discusses three predictive modeling techniques, regression, neural networks and classification trees, that could be used for such an estimate. A comparison suggests that classification tree techniques may provide more effective estimates than other techniques. A data set (n=227) with...

Currently, from the statistical analysis of accidents at home and abroad, the number of automobile defects and the resulting automobile accidents are very large. Obviously, the automobile defects have become one of the main factors affecting traffic safety, and risk assessment as an automobile key technical defect of risk management, the elimination of defects and reduce automobile accidents ar...