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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"medium-risk"”.
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A Comparison of Risk Assessment Models for Pipe Replacement and Rehabilitation in a Water Distribution System
… it benefits municipalities to utilize a risk assessment model to identify the most critical components of the system and develop an effective rehabilitation or replacement schedule.</p> <p>This study compared two risk assessment models, a statistically complex model and a simplified …
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Retrospective Review of Postpartum Hemorrhage Incidence, Risk Factors, and Maternal Morbidity
… and hysterectomy. In the recent years, PPH risk assessment tools have been widely implemented in an attempt to identify woman at risk for hemorrhage and preemptively mobilize resources. The most commonly used trinary assessment tool from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative …
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An investigation into the accident causal influence of construction project features
… accident) and their associated degree of H&S risk (i.e. the likelihood of accident occurrence due to CPFs) remain elusive in the extant construction H&S literature. This research was thus undertaken to empirically investigate the mechanism by which CPFs influence accident occurrence and assess …
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Risk culture in support functions at a government department
Risk culture perceptions are an important measure of an organisation's risk management processes. Yet, in many organisations, the perceived risk culture often remains undetermined. The present work assesses the risk culture perceptions of employees in the support functions of a South African …
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Lateral collapse potential of wood pallets
… ratios fall between 0.0 and 0.6 are at high risk, from 0.6 but less then 1.0 are at medium risk, and from 1.0 to infinity are at low risk of lateral collapse. These ratios have been calibrated against documented cases of lateral collapse. The factors that influence the lateral collapse …
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Support in a Community Rehabilitation Company
… Companies (CRC), who work with low to medium risk service users. This offered a novel backdrop from which to explore how young adults with ADHD are supported whilst carrying out their court orders. A small-scale qualitative research study was conducted in a CRC, to understand what …
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Development of a risk score for constrictive pericarditis using the Investigation of the Management of Pericarditis randomised clinical trial dataset
… in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, while the risk of constrictive pericarditis in individuals with tuberculous pericarditis does not appear to be uniform, there is no defined risk score available to predict an individual's baseline risk of constrictive pericarditis. Therefore the main aim of …
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Analysis of referrals to a cancer genetics service
… are more likely to be at greater than population risk. Referrals considered to be high risk patients are more likely to come from secondary care rather than primary care sources and vice versa for those at medium risk. Patients living in more deprived areas of Wales are less likely to be referred …
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Roles of orbitofrontal and insular cortices in processing reward variables
Delays and risks are important in evaluation of subjective value. We performed two experiments to examine how these reward variables are processed in our brain. Although choices of both humans and animals are more strongly influenced by immediate than delayed rewards, methodological limitations …
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From Acute to Chronic: Outcomes and Diagnostics in Traumatic Brain Injury
… the requirement for acute CT imaging, termed medium-risk. In this population, the targeted use of biomarkers to act as a screen for the neuroimaging may reduce CT scan requirements in these medium-risk patients by up to a quarter, reducing unnecessary investigation and expediting discharge …
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An Examination of the Potential of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to Stimulate the Development of Geothermal Energy in Indonesia
… in the absence of clear and transparent risk-sharing mechanisms to incentivise the private sector that bears a higher share of the risk than in other infrastructure investments. Therefore, the aim of the thesis is to develop a framework based on principal-agency theorising to identify the …
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A Risk Based Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems Security
… System (ITS) security impact-oriented risk assessment in threefold. • First, I employ a risk-based approach to conduct a threat assessment. This threat assessment performs a qualitative vulnerability-oriented threat analysis. The objective is to scrutinize safety, security, reliability, …
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An investigation into the effect of customised insoles on plantar pressures in people with diabetes
… plantar pressures have been shown to be a key risk factor for foot ulceration in people with diabetes. Consequently, patients are often prescribed insoles designed to reduce pressure. New technologies, such as plantar pressure measurement devices and 3D foot scanners, have the potential to …
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Molecular Pathology: Potential Biomarkers For The Detection Of Down Syndrome Pregnancies
… in the antena- tal care program to assess the risk of DS. If the risk is high the women are offered further testing that includes invasive sampling (amniocente- sis or chorionic villus sampling) to confirm the diagnosis. This project aimed to investigate the possibility of applying new methods …
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Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
… using data on individuals' subjective beliefs, risk preference, reckless driving, insurer, and insurance policy characteristics merged with insurer-specific quality ratings distributed by independent organizations. We find a zero correlation between ex post accident risk and insurance coverage, …
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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… threshold, however, it does not predict any risk associated with neuropathy. In order to supplement this device with the progression of neuropathy a risk assessment tool was developed for automated prediction of neuropathy based on the clinical history of patients. The smart tool is based on …
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Constructing low cost core-satellite portfolios with multiple risk constraints: practical applications to Robo advising in South Africa using active, passive and smart-beta strategies
Risk and tracking error budgeting was originally adopted by large institutional investors, including pension funds, plan sponsors, foundations, and endowments. More recently, risk and tracking error budgeting have gained popularity among financial advisors, multi-managers, fund of funds managers, …
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Assessing the feasibility of using actuarial risk assessment tool to identify risks in child protection cases.
The problem: Risk and uncertainty are integral to child protection decisions because of the need to protect children from intrafamilial maltreatment, which is more common than abuse by strangers and occurs in the private sphere of the home. The problem of assessing intrafamilial risks to children …
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Treating filtered final effluent from the Cape Flats Wastewater treatment plant with ozone and biologically activated carbon filtration to remove pathogens and organic micropollutants
Final effluent is widely recognised as a risky water source for human consumption given the organic micropollutants and pathogens it can contain. Hence, multi-barrier treatment trains and advanced processes are required. However, these are costly and therefore it is necessary to investigate how …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
… respectively. Finer groupings based on risk (high, medium, and low), a number of risk measures (Psychopathy Checklist – Revised, Violence Risk Scale, and Violence Risk Scale – Sexual Offender Version), and different types of offenders (i.e. violent, nonviolent, sexual, Dangerous …