Anisakiasis is an emerging zoonosis caused by the fish parasitic nematode Anisakis. Spain appears to have the highest reported incidence in Europe and marinated anchovies are recognised as the main food vehicle. Using data on fishery landings, fish infection rates and consumption habits of the Spanish population from questionnaires, we developed a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) model for th...

Requirements Engineering (RE) is arguably one of the most critical activities in the lifecycle of a software-centric system. In traditional RE techniques where more emphasis is placed on systematic upfront analysis, the tendency is to focus mostly on functionality rather than quality issues. Such a focus remains the same in Agile methods, except that emphasis has been shifted to delivering exec...

Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) models are used to estimate the risks of transporting dangerous goods and to assess the merits of introducing alternative risk reduction measures for different transportation scenarios and assumptions. A comprehensive QRA model recently was developed in Europe for application to road tunnels. This model can assess the merits of a limited number of "native safe...

In boreal spring-to-autumn (May-to-September) 2012 and 2013, the Northern Hemisphere (NH) has experienced a large number of severe midlatitude regional weather extremes. Here we show that a considerable part of these extremes were accompanied by highly magnified quasistationary midlatitude planetary waves with zonal wave numbers m = 6, 7, and 8. We further show that resonance conditions for the...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: MIC: Methyl Isocyanate; UCIL: Union Carbide India Ltd; RDX: Research Development Explosive; HAZOP: Hazard Operability Studies; PHA: Preliminary Hazard Analysis; IHA: Interface Hazard Analysis; O&SHA: Operating and Support Hazard Analysis; QRA: Quantitative Risk Analysis; RA: Risk Analysis; MORT: Management Oversight Risk Tree Analysis...

Offshore facilities need to be decommissioned after completing their design lives. Quantity Risk Assessment (QRA) is usually compulsorily required in the offshore industry, but current QRA technology for decommissioning projects still has some gaps that filled. Most technologies can only used static risk assessment before project starts, which may underestimate involved operations. Therefore, s...

New international regulations aimed at decarbonizing maritime transportation are positively contributing to attention being paid the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a ship fuel. Scaling up LNG-fueled ships is highly dependent on safe bunkering operations, particularly during simultaneous operations (SIMOPs); therefore, performing quantitative risk assessment (QRA) either mandated or recom...

BACKGROUND Although intima-media thickness (IMT) was increased in several inflammatory diseases, studies investigating whether the inflammatory processes lead to macrovascular alteration with increased IMT in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) lack. METHODS Using ultrasound (high-resolution B-mode), we compared bilaterally the IMT of the common carotid artery (CCA-IMT), the radial artery (...

TO THE EDITOR: In India, a student pursuing the Bachelor’s degree in Dental Surgery (BDS) learns Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry during the first year. The session continues for 45 wk from mid-September until July. However, the effective time available for teaching is usually restricted to 25–30 wk, owing to vacation, holidays, examinations, and extracurricular activities. The teaching sc...

Domino accidents are typical low-frequency and high-consequence events in chemical process industries. Applying quantitative risk assessment (QRA) domino accident is challenging due to the uncertainties escalation process. Meanwhile, outcomes of QRA subject a certain degree unreliability inappropriate representation uncertainty. This paper reviews literature field that may happen Firstly, sourc...