Publications related to Risk assessment

Computational study of the risk of restenosis in coronary bypasses

Coronary artery disease, caused by the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary vessel wall, is one of the leading causes of death in the world. For high-risk patients, coronary artery bypass graft is the preferred treatment. Despite overall exce ...

Springer Heidelberg2017

A PET-Based Nomogram for Oropharyngeal Cancers

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

Purpose: In the context of locally advanced oropharyngeal cancer (LAOC) treated with definitive radiotherapy (RT) (combined with chemotherapy or cetuximab), the aims of this study were: (1) to identify PET-FDG parameters correlated with overall survival (O ...

10.1016/j.ejca.2017.01.0182017

Towards sustainable sanitation: Identifying and mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers

Tamar Kohn, Simon Schindelholz, Timothy R. Julian

Sanitation systems that systematically recover and reuse waste can promote social enterprise, reduce discharge of harmful nutrients, pathogens and other contaminants to the environment, replace synthetic fertilizer sources, and increase access to sanitatio ...

2017

Mortgage Default in an Estimated Model of the U.S. Housing Market

Luisa Lambertini, Pinar Uysal, Victoria Nuguer

This paper models the housing sector, mortgages and endogenous default in a DSGE setting with nominal and real rigidities. We use data for the period 1981-2006 to estimate our model using Bayesian techniques. We analyze how an increase in risk in the mortg ...

2017

Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report presents a study commissioned by the European Parliament to compare regulatory standards in the EU and the US in four key sectors (food safety, automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), chosen for their relevance both to consumer protection ...

International Risk Governance Council2017

Modeling the present and future distribution of waterborne Hepatitis E virus

Stéphane Joost, Anna Carratala Ripolles

Hepatitis E is among the major causes of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. Infections occurring in industrialized countries are caused by zoonotic genotypes 3 and 4, mostly due to the consumption of raw meat products such as pork liver, wild boar and deer m ...

2017

FORMINg a link between PTSD and AD

Johannes Gräff

Epidemiological evidence suggests that people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder have a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. The underlying mechanisms, however, remained thus far unexplored. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Agis-Bal ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Instrumented Shoes for Real-Time Activity Monitoring Applications

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Activity monitoring in daily life is gaining momentum as a health assessment tool, especially in older adults and at-risk populations. Several research-based and commercial systems have been proposed with varying performances in classification accuracy. Co ...

Ios Press2016

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Risk assessment

Computational study of the risk of restenosis in coronary bypasses

A PET-Based Nomogram for Oropharyngeal Cancers

Towards sustainable sanitation: Identifying and mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers

On the plausibility of socioeconomic mortality estimates derived from linked data: a demographic approach

Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Mortgage Default in an Estimated Model of the U.S. Housing Market

Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation

Modeling the present and future distribution of waterborne Hepatitis E virus

FORMINg a link between PTSD and AD

Instrumented Shoes for Real-Time Activity Monitoring Applications

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On the plausibility of socioeconomic mortality estimates derived from linked data: a demographic approach

Instrumented Shoes for Real-Time Activity Monitoring Applications

A PET-Based Nomogram for Oropharyngeal Cancers

FORMINg a link between PTSD and AD

Towards sustainable sanitation: Identifying and mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers

Modeling the present and future distribution of waterborne Hepatitis E virus

Computational study of the risk of restenosis in coronary bypasses

Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Mortgage Default in an Estimated Model of the U.S. Housing Market