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Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of the book: ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: PUBLIC COSTS, PRIVATE REWARDS. (Michael S. Greve & Fred L. Smith, Jr. eds., Praeger 1992) [209 pp.] Acknowledgements, biographical information, figures, foreword by James Q. Wilson, index, notes, selected bibliography, tables. LC 91-44009, ISBN 0-275- 94238-4. [Paper $19.95, cloth $45.00. One Madison Avenue, New York N.Y. 10010.]
Book Review, Robert W. Nelson
Book Review, Robert W. Nelson
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: W. KIP VISCUSI, SMOKING: MAKING THE RISKY DECISION. (Oxford University Press 1992.) [180 pp.] Appendix, bibliography, figures, illustrations, index, notes, preface, tables. LC: 91-47138; ISBN: 0-19-507486-6.
An Analysis Of The Performance-Risk Trade-Off In Source Selection Decision Making, Richard G. Pierce, Jeffrey E. Wainwright
An Analysis Of The Performance-Risk Trade-Off In Source Selection Decision Making, Richard G. Pierce, Jeffrey E. Wainwright
Theses and Dissertations
Each year the Air Force awards weapon system contracts worth billions of dollars using the source selection process. In the source selection, performance and risk assessments are evaluated to determine the best proposal; the proposal that gives the best overall value. The purpose of this research was to investigate the performance/risk trade-off in the source selection decision making process. The study also examined the effect individual risk propensities and the nature of item being evaluated have on the performance/risk trade-off decisions. Air Force acquisition personnel stationed at Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, who had participated in a source selection …
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number Three, Summer 1993, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number Three, Summer 1993, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Book Review, Christine M. Wilkes
Book Review, Christine M. Wilkes
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: SHELDON KRIMSKY & ALONZO PLOUGH, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: COMMUNICATING Risks AS A SOCIAL PROCESS. (Auburn House 1988) [333 pp.] Acknowledgements, bibliographies, case chronologies, figures, foreword, glossaries of acronyms, index, notes. LC: 88-14467; ISBN: 0-8659-187-8. [$18,95 paper. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.]
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number Two, Spring 1993, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number Two, Spring 1993, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Elitism Vs. Checks And Balances In Communicating Scientific Information To The Public, Arthur Kantrowitz
Elitism Vs. Checks And Balances In Communicating Scientific Information To The Public, Arthur Kantrowitz
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The "father of the Science Court" describes his objective in proposing the institution as it has come to be known, his efforts to get a major public test of the concept, and insights gained since the initial proposal was made in 1967.
The Science Court: A Bibliography, Jon R. Cavicchi
The Science Court: A Bibliography, Jon R. Cavicchi
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
This bibliography lists articles that focus specifically on the Science Court as proposed by Professor Kantrowitz in the mid-sixties. In a separate part articles casually mentioning that proposal in assorted contexts are presented.
The Influence Of A Transformative Elementary Science Curriculum On At-Risk Students: A Case Report, M. Katheryn Grimes
The Influence Of A Transformative Elementary Science Curriculum On At-Risk Students: A Case Report, M. Katheryn Grimes
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study explored the influence of a transformative elementary science curriculum on at-risk students. Project S.M.I.L.E., the focus of this study, uses strategies for curriculum development proposed by theorists of the post-modern era within the framework of social constructivism. Students in this program collaborate in their roles as students-as-teachers to prepare and present lessons to visitors of their school's natural history museum and science laboratory; Data collection was conducted at Alison Leigh Elementary School in a metropolitan area of the southwestern United States. Observations of the students, interviews with parents and classroom teachers, student discussions, and journal writings of the …
A Critique Of Defined Contribution Plans Using A Simulation Approach, David M. Knox
A Critique Of Defined Contribution Plans Using A Simulation Approach, David M. Knox
Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993-2006)
During the 1980s there was a trend in many countries away from defined benefit plans toward defined contribution plans. This development means that the individual member bears the full investment risk in the preretirement period and the annuity rate risk at retirement, as no pension benefit (expressed as a percentage of salary) is provided. This paper, through the use of a stochastic model for both inflation and a range of investment returns, analyses the distribution of retirement incomes that will be produced from a defined contribution plan. The impacts of changing entry and exit ages, different investment strategies, alternative career …
Industry And Country Effects On Manager's Perceptions Of Environmental Uncertainties, Kent D. Miller
Industry And Country Effects On Manager's Perceptions Of Environmental Uncertainties, Kent D. Miller
Purdue CIBER Working Papers
International management research highlights political, government policy, and macroeconomic uncertainties. Strategy studeies focus on input supply, product market, and competitive uncertainties. This study develops and tests the reliability of an instrument for measuring managers' uncertainty perceptions. Data analyses using an international sample provide insights into the relative importance of country and industry factors for explaining managers' perceptions of different environmental uncertainties.
A Comparison Of Managers' Uncertainty Perceptions And Country Risk Indices, Kent D. Miller
A Comparison Of Managers' Uncertainty Perceptions And Country Risk Indices, Kent D. Miller
Purdue CIBER Working Papers
This study compares mangers' perceptions of political, government policy, and macroeconomic uncertainties with the ratings provided by a professional rish assessment service. Survey data from six Latin American countries indicate rank orderings of the coutnries based on managers' uncertainty perceptions differ fromt he professional rish assessment ranking.
Nf93-126 Health And Safety In The Arts And Crafts, Mary C. Saylor, Shirley Niemeyer
Nf93-126 Health And Safety In The Arts And Crafts, Mary C. Saylor, Shirley Niemeyer
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebFact discusses safety issues in arts and crafts.
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number One, Winter 1993, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Four, Number One, Winter 1993, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
A Comparative Analysis Of Six Methods For Calculating Travel Fatality Risk, Kopl Halperin
A Comparative Analysis Of Six Methods For Calculating Travel Fatality Risk, Kopl Halperin
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Extending the analysis in the previous article, Professor Halperin examines the implications of alternative calculations of travel fatality Risk for public policy and individual decision making. He finds, e.g., that commonly reported death rates tend to minimize the relative Risk of auto travel.
Preserves At Risk: An Investigation Of Resource Management Strategies, Implications And Opportunities, R. J. Lilieholm
Preserves At Risk: An Investigation Of Resource Management Strategies, Implications And Opportunities, R. J. Lilieholm
Elusive Documents
Human activities already threaten the globe's physical and biological systems. Worldwide, species extinction rates are estimated to be one thousand times what they would be in the absence of human activity (Wilson 1988). Raven (1988) estimates that 25% of the world's plant and animal species existing in 1985 may be extinct by 2015, with most extinctions occurring in tropical regions. While these extinction rates are staggering, global warming would greatly accelerate extinction rates that some scientists believe may already exceed those accompanying the decline of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (Wolf 1987).
The Role Of Risk Analysis In The 1992 Framework Convention On Climate Change, Martin J. Lalonde
The Role Of Risk Analysis In The 1992 Framework Convention On Climate Change, Martin J. Lalonde
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Note examines the role that risk analysis played in fashioning the Framework Convention on Climate Change and argues that risk analysis should play a significant part in implementing the Convention.