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Williams, David D. "Hazard signs." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245688200.
Full textYang, Y.-S. "Marine hazard assessment." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356793.
Full textAbdel-Latif, M. A. "Landslide hazard assessment." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371042717.
Full textRicci, Edward D. "Environmental Hazard Evaluations." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296376.
Full textCameron, Lee R. J. "Aerosol explosion hazard quantification." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311674.
Full textKovář, Milan. "Hazard v České republice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-9202.
Full textKozák, Jakub. "Internetový hazard v USA." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-17100.
Full textHjorth, Christian Overvåg. "Hazard boilerplates in safety analysis : Aspects of hazard identification using boilerplates and ontologies." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for datateknikk og informasjonsvitenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-23001.
Full textParchment, Ann. "Development of a novel method for cross-disciplinary hazard identification." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2013. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8054.
Full textGuzzetti, Fausto. "Landslide hazard and risk assessment." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980716993.
Full textBetton, Sandra Ann. "Bankruptcy : a proportional hazard approach." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26056.
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Teakle, Geraldine Mary Reid. "Incentives for earthquake hazard mitigation /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envt253.pdf.
Full textLeibundgut, Reto. "Moral hazard in portfolio management /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012921509&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textLouzada-Neto, Francisco. "Hazard models for lifetime data." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268248.
Full textRehman, Khaista. "Seismic hazard assessment in Pakistan." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539338.
Full textJennings, P. J. "Landslide hazard analysis : Rhondda Valleys." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318716.
Full textEngland, Juan Carlos. "Structural vulnerability and hazard potential." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424049.
Full textCain, Samuel Franklin. "Rating Rockfall Hazard in Tennessee." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9972.
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Foust, James. "Payment Schemes and Moral Hazard." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1370853680.
Full textMencnarowská, Lucie. "Morální hazard ve správě společností." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-9201.
Full textValtr, Jiří. "Finanční krize a morální hazard." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205306.
Full textYang, Youzhi. "Essays on repeated moral hazard." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3369914.
Full textYao, Fang. "Hazard functions and macroeconomic dynamics." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16280.
Full textThe Calvo assumption (Calvo, 1983) is widely used in the macroeconomic literature to model market frictions that limit the ability of economic agents to re-optimize their control variables. In spite of its virtues, the Calvo assumption also implies singular adjustment behavior at the firm level as well as a restrictive aggregation mechanism for the whole economy. In this study, I examine implications of the Calvo assumption for macroeconomic dynamics. To do so, I extend the Calvo assumption to a more general case based on the concept of the statistical hazard function. Two applications of this approach are studied in the DSGE framework. In the first essay, I apply this approach to a New Keynesian model, and demonstrate that tractability gained from the Calvo pricing assumption is costly in terms of inflation dynamics. The second essay estimates aggregate price reset hazard function using the theoretical framework constructed in the first essay, and shows that the constant hazard function implied by the Calvo assumption is strongly rejected by the aggregate data. In the third essay, I further explore implications of the empirically based hazard function for inflation persistence and monetary policy. I find that the empirically plausible aggregate price reset hazard function can generate simulated data that are consistent with inflation gap persistence found in the US CPI data. Based on these results, I conclude that the price reset hazard function plays a crucial role for generating inflation dynamics. The last essay applies the same modeling approach to a RBC model with employment rigidity. I find that, when introducing a more general stochastic adjustment process, the employment dynamics vary with a parameter, which determines the monotonic property of the hazard function. In particular, the volatility of employment is increasing, but the persistence is decreasing in the value of the parameter.
Magrin, Andrea. "Multi-scale seismic hazard scenarios." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/8620.
Full textSeismic hazard assessment can be performed following a neo-deterministic approach (NDSHA), which allows to give a realistic description of the seismic ground motion due to an earthquake of given distance and magnitude. The approach is based on modelling techniques that have been developed from a detailed knowledge of both the seismic source process and the propagation of seismic waves. This permits to define a set of earthquake scenarios and to simulate the associated synthetic signals without having to wait for a strong event to occur. NDSHA can be applied at different geographic scale with different detail levels of modelling. At local scale the source and site characteristics can be take account, whereas at the regional scale seismograms at the nodes of a regular grid are computed. Finite fault simulation is needed to compute realistic ground motions close to a ruptured fault. No reasonable deterministic prediction for many details of a future fault motion can be expected and their variability can be treated in practice only from a statistical viewpoint. Therefore, their effect is simulated through Monte-Carlo approach. To test the accuracy of the method, the L’Aquila earthquake occurred on April 6, 2009 has been modelled. The use of a realistic model for the representation of the extended fault introduces a stochastic element in NDSHA. So the variability due to the stochastic component of seismic source has been evaluated. In standard NDSHA at regional scale, seismograms are computed for an upper frequency content of 1 Hz. The use of a more realistic source model than the scaled point source that takes account of effective duration of rupture process allowed to extend the maximum frequency of computation of seismograms of national scale maps to 10 Hz. A first estimation of uncertainty due to the random representation of the source in national scale maps has been obtained by parametric tests on EU-India Grid infrastructure. NDSHA defines the hazard as the maximum ground motion at the site and it does not supply information about the frequency of occurrence of the expected ground motion. The standard procedure of NDSHA has been modified here, to take into account the additional information of recurrence. The introduction of recurrence estimates in NDSHA allows the generation of ground motion maps for specified return periods that permits a straightforward comparison between the NDSHA and the PSHA maps. Furthermore the map of the recurrence has been associated with standard map of ground motion.
La valutazione della pericolosità sismica può essere effettuata seguendo un approccio neo-deterministico (NDSHA) che permette di dare una descrizione realistica del moto del suolo dovuto a un terremoto di data distanza e magnitudo. L’approccio è basato su tecniche di modellazione che sono state sviluppate da una conoscenza dettagliata sia della sorgente che della propagazione delle onde sismiche. Questo permette di definire un set di terremoti di scenario e di simulare i segnali sintetici associati senza dover aspettare l’accadimento di un forte evento. La metodologia neo-deterministica può essere applicata a diverse scale geografiche cui corrispondono differenti livelli di dettaglio nella modellazione. A scala locale è possibile tenere conto delle caratteristiche specifiche della sorgente e del sito considerati, mentre a scala regionale vengono calcolati i sismogrammi ai nodi di una griglia regolare. Per simulare in modo realistico il moto del suolo in prossimità di una faglia è necessario usare un modello di sorgente estesa. Molti dettagli del processo di rottura sulla sorgente non possono essere predetti in modo deterministico e la loro variabilità può essere trattata solo da un punto di vista statistico. Di conseguenza i loro effetti vengono simulati attraverso una approccio Monte-Carlo. Per testare l’accuratezza del metodo è stato modellato il terremoto dell’Aquila del 6 aprile 2009. L’uso di un modello realistico di sorgente per la rappresentazione della sorgente estesa introduce un elemento stocastico nel metodo neo-deterministico. Si è quindi valutata la variabilità dei valori di picco dovuta alla modellazione della sorgente. Nella metodologia neo-deterministica scala regionale i sismogrammi vengono calcolati con una frequenza massima di 1 Hz. L’uso di un modello di sorgente piu` realistico rispetto a quello della sorgente puntiforme in grado di tener in conto dell’effettiva durata del processo di rottura ha consentito di estendere la frequenza massima di calcolo dei sismogrammi delle mappe di pericolosità nazionali a 10 Hz. Una prima stima dell’incertezza legata alla simulazione stocastica della sorgente sulle mappe a scala nazionale è stata ottenuta con l’uso di test parametrici condotti utilizzando l’infrastruttura informatica EU-India Grid. Il metodo neo-deterministico definisce la pericolosità come il massimo scuotimento al sito e non fornisce alcuna informazione sulla ricorrenza del moto del suolo atteso. La procedura è stata modificata per tener conto dell’informazione aggiuntiva della ricorrenza. In questo modo è stato possibile generare delle mappe di scuotimento per specifici periodi di ritorno che consentono un diretto confronto con le mappe probabilistiche. Inoltre alle mappe di massimo scuotimento sono state associate le rispettive mappe di ricorrenza del moto del suolo.
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McMahon, Sean M. "Direct visual hazard affordance detection." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129572/9/Sean_McMahon_Thesis.pdf.
Full textMak, Sum. "Seismic analysis of the South China Region." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B30588893.
Full textZhang, Sijie. "Integrating safety and BIM: automated construction hazard identification and prevention." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52235.
Full textAllen, Matthew Charles. "Stakeholder perceptions of flooding issues in the Wildcat Creek Watershed." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35444.
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Wildcat Creek Watershed near Manhattan, Kansas, experiences damaging flash floods that have required evacuations in recent years (Spicer 2011). The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the issue of flooding in the Wildcat Creek Watershed through interviewing stakeholders (those that reside, own a business, or study) using a semi – structured approach. Interview discussion examined stakeholders’ perceptions of 1) how they understand the processes that create the flooding hazard, 2) whether or not they value the implementation of mitigation efforts to reduce the negative impacts of flooding, 3) whether they feel at risk to flooding, and 4) who they consider a trusted source of information about the hydrologic characteristics of the watershed. Based on the results of this study, a spatial relationship in perceptions of flooding issues in the Wildcat Creek Watershed was found. Across the study area, stakeholders understood many of the physical causes of flooding, but did not tend to see the connections among the many physical components. Overall, stakeholders believed that mitigation strategies to curb flash flooding were valuable, although many were not supportive of paying for these efforts through potential taxation from a watershed district. Despite the increase of flooding events in the past decade (Anderson 2011), many stakeholders neither saw any changes in their personal risk of exposure to flooding nor a change in their flood vulnerability. In the context of the flooding issue in Wildcat Creek Watershed, most participants trusted their neighbors and community leaders as sources of information instead of professionals who research and/or conduct work on the watershed.
Genc, Gence. "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment For Eskisehir." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605436/index.pdf.
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values for 10% probability of exceedance in 50-year and 100-year periods at different site classes. A seismotectonic map has been prepared in the Geographical Information Systems environment by compiling instrumental seismicity and neotectonic data for the study area. The seismic sources have been defined spatially in six areal zones, characterized by a commonly used recurrence law and a maximum magnitude value. Four attenuation relationships have been selected being one of them totaly developed from the strong-motion records of Turkey. After the implementation of a seismic hazard model by using SEISRISK software, the probabilistic seismic hazard curves and maps were developed based on the selected attenuation relationships, at &lsquo
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sites, with a probability of exceedance of 10% in 50-year and 100-year periods. At rock sites the highest levels of hazard were calculated based on the predictive relationship of Abrahamson and Silva (1996), whereas the lowest ones based on the one of Boore et al. (1996). On the other hand the highest hazard levels were determined at soil sites based on the attenuation relationship of Ambraseys et al. (1996), whereas the lowest ones based on the one of Boore et al. (1997). For EskiSehir, the peak ground acceleration values calculated based on attenuation relationship by Boore et al. (1997) were found to be applicable for 10% probability of exceedance in 50 and 100 years, taking into consideration the fact that a considerable portion of the city is founded over alluviums.
Liero, Hannelore. "Testing the Hazard Rate, Part I." Universität Potsdam, 2003. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5151/.
Full textBrown, David C., and Shaun William Davies. "Moral hazard in active asset management." ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625951.
Full textBircham, John Stanley. "Avalanche hazard forecasting at Mount Hutt." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Geography, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2776.
Full textCalvari, Sonia. "Hazard assessment on Etna volcano, Italy." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301816.
Full textHincks, Thea K. "Probabilistic volcanic hazard and risk assessment." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544317.
Full textIrwin, K. D. J. "Domestic Fire Hazard in New Zealand." University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8341.
Full textCole, Stephen William. "Seismic hazard and risk in China." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443176.
Full textHill, David C. "The micrometeoroid impact hazard in space." Thesis, University of Kent, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236135.
Full textChen, Yi-Ting Civ E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Rainfall-induced Landslide Hazard Rating System." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66858.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-138).
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 management. A systematic procedure to investigate the characterization of rainfall distribution in a regional area is developed in the first part of the thesis. Rainfall data for approximately one decade, 2002 to 2008, from 9 rainfall stations in the study area are included, in which a total of 46 typhoons are selected and categorized into 3 typhoon paths: the Northeastern, Northwestern, and Western. The rainfall distribution affected by typhoon paths in a region is thereby determined. The second part of the thesis is the Landslide Hazard Rating System, which integrates different hazard factors: bedrock geology, aspect, and slope gradients. This analysis is based on the specific characterization of the study area, which consists of the relative topographic relief (aspect and slope gradients) and variable bedrock geology. The method of normalized difference is used for examining the relationship of the topographic features to landslide occurrence. Although this study is conducted in a specific area, this landslide hazard rating system can be applied to other locations. Finally, a concept of a rainfall-induced landslide analytical system is proposed to combine the rainfall distribution analysis and the landslide hazard rating system. This analytical system is intended to include and address the relationship of rainfall and landslide occurrence by combining characterizations of rainfall, topography, and landslide potential. Additionally, this study recommends that, in future work, theoretical models of rainfall distribution and laboratory tests of soil and rock samples be included. Together, these will constitute a basis for the prediction of landslide occurrence. The ultimate goal of future work should be the development of a system for assessing and forecasting rainfall-induced landslide risks, which can become the foundation for a comprehensive risk management system for use in planning.
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Kwasny, Richard S. "Hazard assessment strategies for reduction reactions." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298377.
Full textОрищук, Єва Сергіївна. "The hidden hazard of wet wipes." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13109.
Full textMcCaffrey, Matthew. "The political economy of moral hazard." Angers, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ANGE0072.
Full textThis dissertation is an exploration and development of the economic theory of moral hazard. Part I examines the foundations of moral hazard theory by looking at the broader theory of incentives, of which moral hazard is a part. In Chapter 1, I examine the nature of incentives and their proper role in economic theory. I argue that the concept of incentives must be refined and elaborate a theory that is consistent with the subjective-value tradition in economics. In Chapter 2,I study some misuses of incentives in public economics writing. In Chapter 3, I criticize the theory of “entrepreneurial incentives. ” Part 2 turns to the narrower topic of moral hazard. In chapter 4, I survey historical writings on moral hazard from the ancient Greeks to contemporary economic theory. I then discuss some details of contemporary neoclassicaleconomic theory, especially the canonical works of Kenneth Arrow, George Akerlof, and James Mirrlees. This discussion leads me to suggest a new approach to moral hazard, based on the idea of entrepreneurial judgment. In chapter 5, I use the previous analysis to study the moral elements of moral hazard, and I conclude that moral hazard often involves unethical behaviour. In the last part, chapter 6, I discuss empirical methods of measuring moral hazard from in the fields of health insurance and deposit insurance. I also examine the limitations of the results obtained in the discipline of experimental economics. I conclude by pointing out several shortcomings in these methods and suggest ways in which they might be improved
Michalec, Ivan. "Internetový hazard - společenský fenomén nového věku." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77838.
Full textJagošová, Petra. "Morální hazard na příkladu finanční krize." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136317.
Full textMenon, Sreekumar Singh Adit D. "Output hazard-free test generation methodology." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1616.
Full textMapuranga, Victor Philip. "Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for Zimbabwe." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43166.
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Misner, Scottie, and Carol Curtis. "HACCP - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146434.
Full textHACCP, pronounced has-up, is a food safety self-inspection system that combines up-to-date technical information with step-by-step procedures to evaluate and monitor the flow of food throughout a food establishment from receiving to service. This publication introduces this system to readers and outlines 6 simple HACCP principles to reduce the occurrence of food-borne illness at home.
Pierskalla, William P. Jr. "RETHINKING KARST HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN KENTUCKY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ees_etds/67.
Full textPORETTI, ILARIA. "Flood hazard analysis for river systems." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/19730.
Full textDubovský, Dávid. "Analýza rizik nástrojářské dílny." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232113.
Full textCheung, Wah-fung. "Natural terrain landslide study in Lung Fu Shan area." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38843791.
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