In studies for the 1993 World development report: investing in health Murray et al. developed the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). This article examines one particular aspect of the DALY methodology: the weighting of life years by age. For the quantitative implementation of this notion Murray proposed a general equation to weight life years by age, which specifies that the years lived betw...

Text mining (TM) is a semi-automatized, multi-step process, able to turn unstructured into structured data. TM relevance has increased upon machine learning (ML) and deep (DL) algorithms’ application in its various steps. When applied biomedical literature, text named specificity lies both the type of analyzed documents language concepts retrieved. The array that can be used ranges from scienti...

In a global society, in which geotechnical projects are increasingly designed country other than the one where construction takes place, risk management must be extended to cover infrastructure works, smaller dams and tunnels, for example, since there is significant impact on works budget imponderables. Therefore, methodology based likelihood of occurrence certain events their economic conseque...