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Individual and Subpopulation Variations
in Response to Toxic Chemicals: Factors of Susceptibility
Timothy T. Iyaniwura, Ph.D.; Senior
Research Fellow, 1998-2002; Biomedical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital;
Dundee, Scotland, UK. This paper reviews factors that should receive
attention in defining the toxicity of chemicals within a population
setting, with emphasis on those factors that may confer the greatest
susceptibility to toxic effects. The full
text of the paper is also published in RiskWorld.
(Posted July 2004.)
Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model: Development
and Application to Preventive Conservation at the Canadian Museum of Nature
R. Robert Waller, Dissertation for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree, Institute
of Conservation, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; Printed in December
2003, ISBN 9173464759, ISSN 02846578. Preventive conservation seeks to
minimize needless deterioration, damage, and loss to cultural property. This
requires a comprehensive understanding of all hazards that might affect property
and all values needing protection from those hazards. The past effects of
hazards must be apprehended, the efficacy of current conservation practices must
be calculated, and the predictability of future changes must be judged. Risks
may manifest gradually or sporadically. In either case, the time scale over
which risks to cultural properties must be considered is measured in centuries.
Feedback on the consequences of preventive conservation decisions taken is too
slow and too confounded to support meaningful experience-based learning. A
risk-based approach to decision-making is necessary.
A Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model was developed to guide priorities for resource allocation to preventive conservation under conditions of uncertainty. This model recognizes the preservation system as a subsystem within a collection management system, which, in turn, nests within progressively broader systems. Within this set of systems and subsystems, the contribution of preventive conservation to the continuance and betterment of humanity is recognised. Carefully defining the scope of the preservation system ensures clear understanding of interactions with surrounding systems.
The risk analysis model then disaggregates risk through hierarchies both of sources of risk and of divisions of collections. The level of technical risk analysis varies throughout these hierarchies depending on the potential significance of the disaggregate portion considered. This approach makes the entire modeling process as efficient as possible and is applicable to all forms of cultural property. Its broader adoption will benefit the fields of preventive conservation, conservation research, and cultural heritage management.
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(Posted September 2004.)
Damage Assessment Using High
Resolution Satellite Imagery: Application to 2001 Bhuj, India, Earthquake
Lucian Chiroiu and Gilles P. André, PhD Candidates, Université
Paris, and Géosciences Consultants, Bagneux, France. The authors were able
to quickly estimate the physical damage and human casualties after the Bhuj,
India, earthquake of January 26, 2001, by applying a multidisciplinary approach
based on high resolution satellite data and earthquake engineering and propose
this approach as a useful tool for rescue teams deployed immediately after
a catastrophe. The full text of the paper (PDF,
1370 KB) is also published in RiskWorld.
(Posted November 2001.)
Middleware
for Risk Management: Eliminating the Spaghetti Network
Meridien Research, Newton, Massachusetts. This paper looks at the variety of Enterprise
Application Integration solutions in the marketplace for the
capital markets and risk management departments at financial institutions
and includes case studies from Robertson Stephens, Bank of Montreal, and
HypoVereinsbank. Registration is not required to view a listing of the
company's risk
management research titles and abstracts. (Guest users may register to receive 60
days of limited access to additional Meridien Research web resources.)
(Posted June 2000.)
Evolution of Science-based
Uncertainty Factors in Noncancer Risk Assessment
Michael L. Dourson and Susan F. Velazquez, Toxicology Excellence for Risk
Assessment, and Denise Robinson, International Life Sciences Institute.
(Posted in 1996; updated June 2000.)
Health Risks and Particle
Monitoring: New Technologies to Meet Emerging Needs
Robert A. Michaels, RAM TRAC Corporation.
(Posted in 1996; updated June 2000.)
Site Restoration: Estimation of Attributable Costs From
Plutonium-Dispersal Accidents
David I. Chanin and Walter B. Murfin, Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Link to abstract;
link to Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library's bibliographic
listing, which includes the URL for the report's PDF file.
(Posted in 1996; updated June 2000.)