Much of the research on MIS implementation which has been conducted in the past decade has focused on identifying and measuring the organizational characteristics which appear to be particularly conducive to either success or failure of system development efforts. While such research is useful...

In the scope of a recently launched European Research Project, a team of experts from public laboratories and TSO is in charge of defining the concepts and methodological approaches to design and analyse the technical and economic feasibility of future HVDC grids. This work aims at identifying,...

This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin (Italy) using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function...

In his paper "Challenges Associated with the Expansion of Deposit Insurance Coverage during Fall 2008'" Sebastian Schich of the OECD has written an excellent overview of the current situation of bank deposit insurance in the industrial economies of the world. He finds that, facing a crisis of...

The cyber threat to industrial control systems is an acknowledged security issue, but a qualified dataset to quantify the risk remains largely unavailable. Senior executives of facilities that operate these systems face competing requirements for investment budgets, but without an understanding...

This paper investigates the relation between skiing movement activity patterns and risk of injury. The goal is to provide a framework which can be used for estimating the level of skiers' injury risks, based on skiing patterns. Data, collected from ski-lift gates in the form of process event...

This article describes how risk assessment is a significant aid in decision-making process. It is usually performed using models and a ‘model' is a function of some parameters which are usually affected by uncertainty due to lack of data, imprecision, vagueness, and a small sample size.. Fuzzy...

15 common fungicides were evaluated to study their inhibitory effects on the human aromatase enzyme in comparison with the Letrozole (LTZ), the most potent inhibitor of aromatase (AI) used as anti-estrogen for breast cancer treatment using AUTODOCK software for calculation of inhibition energy...

In this article, the authors proposed the method of medical diagnosis in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the initial stages of pregnancy to facilitate diagnoses and prevent the affection. Nowadays, in industrial modern world with changing lifestyle alimental manner the incidence of...

Intellectual Capital (IC) is becoming more widely understood by the academic and business communities, especially its important role in value creation of an organization. However, few people are aware that IC, if not managed properly, may also pose threats, sometime serious, to an organization....