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Showing 1 to 20 of 1790 for “"Hazard"”.
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Factors affecting tornado hazard probability
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Rating Rockfall Hazard in Tennessee
… from rock slopes adjacent to roadways is a major hazard and poses a problem for transportation agencies across the country. The state of Tennessee has implemented the Tennessee Rockfall Management System (RMS) as a means of reducing the liabilities associated with rockfall hazard. It utilizes …
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Seismic hazard assessment in Central Asia
… regions, with the highest level of seismic hazard. Usually seismic hazard is estimated considering ground motion at rock site, but since the ground motion could vary significantly over short distances due to local surficial geology, it is important to consider locally estimated site effects …
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Moral Hazard and Hospital Physician Integration
… I examine how integration solves moral hazard problems in a principal-agent relationship in the context of the hospital physician integration continuum. I build on the idea in agency theory that tradeoffs between the cost of measuring behavior and the cost of transferring risk to the …
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Rainfall-induced Landslide Hazard Rating System
This research develops a Landslide Hazard Rating System for the rainfall-induced landslides in the Chenyulan River basin area in central Taiwan. This system is designed to provide a simplified and quick evaluation of the possibility of landslide occurrence, which can be used for planning and risk …
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A Hazard Assessment of a Landfill Site
Trecastell landfill site is an open-cast site to which filter cake containing calcium sulfate was deposited as the only known industrial waste. Geological mapping of the site was carried out followed by search bar surveys to determine the area where passive venting of methane, carbon dioxide and …
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Fire Hazard of the Contemporary American Home
… research has suggested that the level of fire hazard in contemporary homes is greater than legacy homes. This study utilizes national fire incident data from 2003 to 2010 to examine trends and characteristics of residential fires. The Item First Ignited and Heat Source for fires are analyzed in …
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Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis
… landslides are one of the most frequent hazards on slanted terrains. They lead to considerable economic losses and fatalities worldwide. Intense storms with high-intensity and long-duration rainfall have high potential to trigger rapidly moving soil masses due to changes in pore water …
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City of Watsonville Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
… vulnerable to a number of natural and man-made hazards. This project analyzed this risk and vulnerabilities to critical facilities within the city, and made recommendations of mitigation strategies and implementation methods to address this risk. Analysis and data collection was conducted in …
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Bias reduction in nonparametric hazard rate estimation
… rate of convergence of traditional nonparametric hazard rate estimators has been widely discussed in the literature. Initiated by recent developments in kernel density estimation we distinguish and extend three popular bias reduction methods to the hazard rate case. A usual problem of fixed kernel …
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Reliability Analysis for Hazard and Operability Studies
Fault tree analysis is used as a tool within hazard and operability (Hazop) studies. The present study proposes a new methodology for obtaining the exact TOP event probability of coherent fault trees. The technique uses a top-down approach similar to that of FATRAM. This new Fault Tree Disjoint …
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Flood hazard alteration and natural catastrophe insurance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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From Fault Dynamics to Seismic Hazard Assessment
… methodologies for the evaluation of seismic hazard and its related uncertainties, based on the study of active faults systems and dynamic modelling of the seismic cycle. I worked in particular on the probabilistic estimate of a fault‘s maximum magnitude earthquake and of its return period. …
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Hazard avoidance alerting with Markov decision processes
(cont.) (incident rate and unnecessary alert rate), the MDP-based logic can meet or exceed that of alternate logics.
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Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection of Executive Compensation
This dissertation investigates the structure of incentive contracts in which adverse selection problems are more severe. Specifically, I examine the moderating effect of R&D intensity on the relative weights placed on signals of ability and on performance measures in executive compensation. …
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Applications of Bayesian networks in natural hazard assessments
… from a modeling perspective many natural hazards share similar properties and challenges. Their complex nature as well as lacking knowledge about their driving forces and potential effects make their analysis demanding: uncertainty about the modeling framework, inaccurate or incomplete …
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Asteroid hazard mitigation: deflection models and mission analysis
… a comprehensive insight into the asteroid hazard problem and particularly to its mitigation. Six different concepts are fully described; specifically models for nuclear interceptor, kinetic impactor, low-thrust propulsion, mass driver, solar collector and gravity tug are developed and their …
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The Regulation of Moral Hazard in Retail Transactions
… With costless efforts or unilateral moral hazard or no effort choices, no punitive penalty is needed to always restore the first-best with a balanced budget. Bilateral moral hazard rationalizes punitive penalty and determinacy of law yet complicates regulation. Our model applies widely to …
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