) responsibility for enacting safe practice is allocated to those with the least authority and capacity to mitigate risk. The article … closes by discussing how talk of culture obscures the role of social context and its contribution to risk in patient safety. …

methodology for quantitatively measuring the hygrothermal discomfort risk of any building design. By combining a numeric model of … hygrothermal risk assessment, describes the developed numerical simulation models and introduces comfort reliability indexes. In …, comfort reliability and risk indices facilitate the comparison of alternative thermal building designs on a fair basis. The …

There are several studies on risk and insurance in village economies in the developing world. However, there is a lack … liberalization in most regions. In this paper, I use primary panel data from five rainfed villages in a high-risk region of India and … improving risk management in rainfed agriculture. …

, we focus on the role of risk, liquidity and investment banking fees. Panel analysis shows that those variables … the regime of low default risk is reported, while fee-income ratio has also a positive impact for banks with low level of … the two identified threshold regimes with regard to risk a year before the financial crisis. Our results provide evidence …