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Health risk and impact evaluation for recycling of radioactive scrap metal

Nieves, L.A.; Chen, S.Y.; Murphie, W.E.; Lilly, M.J. III - 2008

The DoE, Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, is participating with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in providing analytical support for developing international standards for recycling of radioactive scrap metals. For this purpose, Argonne National...

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Programmatic risk management system

Mahn, J.; Wood, C.L. - 2009

The purpose of the Programmatic Risk Management System (PRMS) is to evaluate and manage potential risks associated with proposed projects (i.e., new products or processes, or possible research and technological development projects). Although the PRMS considers some technical aspects of risk,...

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The cost of human error intervention

Bennett, C.T.; Banks, W.W.; Jones, E.D. - 2008

DOE has directed that cost-benefit analyses be conducted as part of the review process for all new DOE orders. This new policy will have the effect of ensuring that DOE analysts can justify the implementation costs of the orders that they develop. We would like to argue that a cost-benefit...

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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries

Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008

This areport explores the implications of an index-of-harm methodology that compares occupational risks among workers exposed to radiological and nonradiological harms. It extends the work of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than...

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HAMMER FY 1996 Multi-Year Program Plan: WBS {number_sign}8.2

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The Hazardous Material Management and Emergency Response Training and Education Center -- known simply as HAMMER -- is being developed to assist the US Department of Energy (DOE) and others dedicated to improving worker health, safety and productivity. HAMMER is a training and education program...

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Accounting for uncertainty in systematic bias in exposure estimates used in relative risk regression

Gilbert, E.S. - 2009

In many epidemiologic studies addressing exposure-response relationships, sources of error that lead to systematic bias in exposure measurements are known to be present, but there is uncertainty in the magnitude and nature of the bias. Two approaches that allow this uncertainty to be reflected...

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MOTIVE FÜR DEN KAUF EINER HEIZUNG - ERGEBNISSE EINER VERBRAUCHERBEFRAGUNG MIT DEM SCHWERPUNKT "HOLZPELLETHEIZUNGEN"

Decker, Thomas - 2007

Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007 …Compared to other heating markets the wood pellets market is quite young and small in Germany. Nevertheless it is a … within the scope of this project. Therefore people in different parts of Germany have been asked about their heating system …

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Price Transmission Asymmetries and Nonlinearities in the International Coffee Supply Chain

Lee, Jun; Gomez, Miguel I. - 2011

transmission from international to retail coffee prices in France, Germany and the United States. We show that ignoring these two … faster during the post-ICA period in France and Germany. Our results suggest that, for these two countries, changes in …

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Farm Structural Change in German Regions - An Empirical Analysis using Micro and Macro Data

Zimmermann, A.; Heckelei, Thomas - 2008

General economic developments as well asrecent fundamental changes in the CommonAgricultural Policy will likely impact significantly on theEuropean farm structure. Although a decline of totalfarm numbers continues to be the general observation,important differences occur across regions and...

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DETERMINANTS OF THE DEMAND FOR ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FRESH MILK IN GERMANY– AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Schrock, Rebecca - 2010

organic milk in Germany is highly price-inelastic. Low absolute price elasticities for organic milk indicate that price …

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