Underground mining is one of the riskiest industries. It is well established that the investigation of geomechanical parameters at the design stage of an underground mine provides the approximate rock mass characteristics, which are associated with s...
Risk assessment in tunnel construction using the drilling and blasting method presents a complex multi-criteria decision-making challenge due to numerous interacting factors. This study develops an advanced risk assessment model integrating game theo...
Firefighters in Taiwan often wear expired protective clothing, which raises concerns regarding their safety. Extending the service life of fire protective clothing can improve firefighter safety and ensure environmental sustainability. In this study,...
The entropy-weighting method (EWM) and variation coefficient method (VCM) are two typical diversity-based weighting methods, which are widely used in risk assessment and decision-making for natural hazards. However, for the attributes with a specific...
With the interconnection and intercommunication of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the security risks of Power Distribution Internet of Things (PDIoT) systems have increased accordingly. How to monitor and assess these risks has become a key issue...
Bridge safety during operating periods is a primary concern worldwide, and the evaluation of bridge risks is a critical aspect of ensuring bridge safety. The most common methods used for bridge risk evaluations include fuzzy comprehensive evaluations...
To achieve the accurate prediction of the dynamic risk of water and mud inrush during underwater tunnel construction, a two-stage risk assessment theory and methodology of water and mud inrush based on game theory combination weighting and interval e...
Chemical mixture risk assessment has, in the past, primarily focused on exposures quantified in the external environment. Assessing health risks using human biomonitoring (HBM) data provides information on the internal concentration, from which a dos...
When exploiting Jurassic-era coal resources in Northwest China, there are risks of water inrush and sand burst disasters from coal seam roofs. To improve the safety of coal mining, it is imperative to accurately and objectively evaluate the water inr...
Accurate fault risk assessment is essential for maintaining wind turbine reliability. Traditional failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)-based approaches struggle to handle the fuzziness, uncertainty, and conflicting nature of multi-criteria evalu...
With the rapid development of urban modernization, traffic congestion, travel delays, and other related inconveniences have become central features in people’s daily lives. The development of subway transit systems has alleviated some of these...
In deep foundation pit risk assessment, expert ratings are often aggregated without preserving the dispersion of individual opinions, yet such dispersion directly reflects the reliability of the assessment. To address this shortcoming, this study int...
In order to solve the social stability risk problem of the adjusting goods vehicle calculation method (AGVCM) in the cancellation of toll stations at expressway provincial boundaries, a social stability risk evaluation model was proposed. Firstly, ba...
Global climate change has altered precipitation patterns, leading to an increased frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events and introducing greater uncertainty to flood risk in river basins. Traditional assessments often rely on static indic...
With the rapid development of the world economy in recent years, the mineral resources in the shallow part of the Earth can no longer meet the needs of mankind, and resource development is continually moving into the deep part of the Earth. The filli...
Under the dual pressures of global climate change and energy structure transition, the offshore wind–solar–current energy coupling hydrogen production (OCWPHP) system has emerged as a promising integrated energy solution. However, its com...
The complex interdependencies among numerous safety risk factors influencing oil tanker loading/unloading operations constitute a focal point in academic research. To enhance safety management in oil port operations, this study conducts a risk analys...
Shield tunnelling in upper-soft and lower-hard mixed ground is characterised by strong geological heterogeneity and coupled construction risks, including uneven cutterhead loading, face instability, cutter wear and abnormal fluctuations in tunnelling...
As climate change intensifies, urban populations face growing threats from frequent and severe heatwaves, underscoring the urgent need for advanced risk assessment frameworks to inform adaptation strategies. This systematic review synthesizes methodo...
Inland waterway locks are critical navigation infrastructures in waterborne transport systems, and their operational reliability is closely associated with the resilience and service capacity of regional inland waterway networks. As lockage demand co...
Debris flows can damage infrastructure and threaten human life and property safety, especially in tourist attractions. Therefore, it is crucial to classify and evaluate the risk of debris flows. This article takes 14 debris flows in Longmenshan Town,...
In order to scientifically and reasonably evaluate the safety risk of ship navigation, to and better solve the problems of the poor sensitivity of static evaluation and insufficient ability to grasp the overall dynamic situation, in this paper, repre...
Risk assessments and risk prioritizations are crucial aspects of new product design before a product is launched into the market. Risk-ranking issues involve the information that is considered for the evaluation and objective weighting considerations...
(1) Background: There is a substantial lack of knowledge of the biochemical mechanisms by which weight loss and weight regain exert their beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on cardiometabolic outcomes. We examined associations between chan...
In order to effectively prevent the occurrence of risky accidents during bridge construction, this study proposes a bridge construction risk assessment method based on variable weight theory and the cloud model theory. Firstly, the fishbone diagram w...
River-lake health assessment is critical for ecological governance, but overestimation risk induced by dual uncertainties (predictive uncertainty of indicator values and methodological uncertainty of weights) compromises the reliability of assessment...
Due to the complexity and uncertainty of decision-making circumstances, it is difficult to provide an accurate compensation cost in strategic weight manipulation, making the compensation cost uncertain. Simultaneously, the change in the attribute wei...
This study aimed to assess whether birth weight is associated with dental caries during the teenage period. In this register-based cohort study, all children of 13 years of age (n = 18,142) who resided in the county of Stockholm, Sweden, in 2000, wer...
The safety risk analysis of urban elevated bridge construction is an important management method to reduce the loss of safety accidents, and it has significant scientific research value and engineering application value. Therefore, this study propose...
The quality of a manufacturing process can be represented by the complex coupling relationship between quality characteristics, which is defined by the directed weighted network to evaluate the risk of the manufacturing process. A multistage manufact...
The land use and ecological environment of the Bailong River Basin (BRB) have undergone significant changes in the context of developing urban–rural integration and ecological conservation in western China. As a key ecologically fragile area in...
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder experienced by women. PCOS is a lifelong condition associated with reproductive, metabolic, and psychological presentations. PCOS is also linked with increased prevalence of cardi...
Background/Objectives: To assess the risk of osteoporotic fractures in patients with rheumatic diseases (RDs), we introduced a new approach for predicting incident osteoporotic fractures (OF), employing a risk-weight calculation for each candidate ri...
Against the backdrop of global warming and rising sea levels coupled with increasing urbanization, flood risks for plain cities have intensified. This study takes Liaocheng City as its research object and constructs a regional flood risk assessment m...
An increase in dietary protein intake has been shown to improve weight loss maintenance in the DIOGenes trial. Here, we analysed whether the source of the dietary proteins influenced changes in body weight, body composition, and cardiometabolic risk...
Pregnancy is a contributor to the obesity epidemic in women, probably through postpartum weight retention (PPWR), weight gain (PPWG), or a combination of both (PPWR + WG). The contribution of these patterns of postpartum weight change to long-term ma...
Despite evidence for the benefits of higher-protein (HP) diets in weight loss, their role in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) management and weight maintenance is not clear. This randomised study compared the effects of a HP diet (mean across both pha...
As a critical component in voltage–current conversion and power transmission within HVDC systems, the risk assessment of converter transformers plays a significant role in ensuring their operational safety and enhancing the reliability of the p...
In order to effectively address the potential hazards associated with the construction of Phase II of the YE Water Supply Project’s KS tunnel in Xinjiang, this study employs the WBS-RBS (Work Breakdown Structure and Risk Breakdown Structure) me...
Occupational health and safety (OHS) is essential for protecting the life, health, and physical integrity of workers. In a complex and dynamic professional context, the prevention of occupational risks has become a priority for employers and decision...
Nowadays, computer networks are playing a more and more important role in people’s daily lives. Meanwhile, the security of computer networks has also attracted widespread concern. However, up to now, there is no universal and effective assessment app...
Current risk assessment in railway track maintenance operations faces challenges (low spatiotemporal accuracy, limited adaptability to various scenarios, and tendency of linear fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) methods to underestimate high-risk f...
To address the challenges of multiple cost-influencing factors, high risks, and difficult control in highway construction projects, this study conducts a cost risk assessment based on the full-process perspective of project owners. Considering the lo...
Normal-weight obesity (NWO) has been shown to be associated with cardiometabolic dysfunction. However, little is known regarding this potential relationship in early adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between NWO and...
Standardized crime rates (e.g., “homicides per 100,000 people”) are commonly used in crime analysis as indicators of victimization risk but are prone to several issues that can lead to bias and error. In this study, a more robust approach (GWRisk) is...
Selection of relative weights for different indicators is a critical step during assessment of composite hazards, vulnerability, and risk. While assigning weight to an indicator, it is important to consider the influence of an individual indicator on...
26 April 2024
(1) Background: An elevated wrist circumference may indicate excess weight and cardiometabolic risk. The present study aims to identify wrist circumference cutoff points (WrC) to determine excess weight levels and predict cardiometabolic risk in adul...
Digital services companies help in the digitalization and transformation of the industry in driving Malaysia by advancing the economy of the country. However, digital services companies often face financial risks in terms of liquidity, solvency, effi...
21 October 2021
The prevalence of obesity already reached epidemic proportions many years ago and more people may die from this pandemic than from COVID-19. However, the figures depend on which measure of fat mass is used. The determination of the associated health...
A major railway project is a complex, giant system with multi-party participation, one characterized by complex geological conditions, long construction periods and large scale, which leads to an increased likelihood of safety risk events during cons...
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