Qarar in International Oil and Gas Contract by Mohammad hossein Esfandiarpour, Ahmad Shaabani

“…By this kind of contracts, IOCs provide financial resources, technology and management necessary for oil and gas fields’ development and benefit from the produced oil and gas. Needlaess to say, due to various and broad operations, unpredictable increase and decrease in market prices, unforeseeable rservoire behavior, and in one word, Because of major technical and financial risks, there is a great uncertainty in both sides of the contract, the amount and conditions of investment and outcomes. …”
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Utilization of Okara as a Culture Medium by Membrane Concentration Process for High Oil Production by Oleaginous Yeast, <i>Lipomyces starkeyi</i> by Hiroya Taki, Kentaro Mine, Mana Miyamoto, Jiro Seto, Shinji Matsuo, Kazuo Kumagai, Hideto Matsuyama

“…Palm oil, widely used in various products, poses environmental and climate change risks. “Yeast oil” produced by <i>Lipomyces starkeyi</i>, an oil-producing yeast, is one of the sustainable alternatives for palm oil and was successfully produced as an edible substitute for palm oil. …”
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Tracking a large‐scale and highly toxic Arctic algal bloom: Rapid detection and risk communication by Evangeline Fachon, Robert S. Pickart, Gay Sheffield, Emma Pate, Mrunmayee Pathare, Michael L. Brosnahan, Eric Muhlbach, Kali Horn, Nathaniel N. Spada, Anushka Rajagopalan, Peigen Lin, Leah T. McRaven, Loreley S. Lago, Jie Huang, Frank Bahr, Dean A. Stockwell, Katherine A. Hubbard, Thomas J. Farrugia, Kathi A. Lefebvre, Donald M. Anderson

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Security Risk Analysis of Active Distribution Networks with Large-Scale Controllable Loads under Malicious Attacks by Jiaqi Liang, Yibei Wu, Jun’e Li, Xiong Chen, Heqin Tong, Ming Ni

“…The impact of malicious control of the controllable load on the power supply reliability and power quality of the distribution networks are simulated and analyzed, and risk consequences for different types of attacks are provided.…”
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Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making Model for Time-Cost-Risk Trade-Off Optimization in Construction Projects by M. Ammar Alzarrad, Gary P. Moynihan, Muhammad T. Hatamleh, Siyuan Song

“…The presented FMCDM model could help produce a more reliable schedule and mitigate the risk of projects running overbudget or behind schedule. …”
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Risk of bias and confounding of observational studies of Zika virus infection: A scoping review of research protocols. by Ludovic Reveiz, Michelle M Haby, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Carlos E Pinzón-Flores, Vanessa Elias, Emma Smith, Mariona Pinart, Nathalie Broutet, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Sylvain Aldighieri, Maria D Van Kerkhove

“…We analyzed the content of protocols of 32 cohort studies and 13 case control studies for systematic bias that could produce erroneous results. Additionally we aimed to characterize the risks of bias and confounding in observational studies related to ZIKV and to propose ways to minimize them, including the use of six newly standardized research protocols.…”
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Analysis of Downstream Flood Risk in the Failure of Batman Dam with Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling and Satellite Data by Gökçen Uysa, Enver Taşçı

“…In this work, the flood risk potential of the residential area located downstream of Batman Dam was investigated. …”
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Study on its application and unstable risk subarea estimation method of mountainous traffic engineering’s spoil ground by Jihong Zhang, Zhongji Dong, Xiaotao Yin, Min Yang

“…According to these distances, safety threats of fail waste dump are classified into three grades: red region being high risk locates, yellow region being middle risk locates, green region being low risk. …”
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Application and comparison of five risk assessment methods in ferrous metal foundry enterprises with silica dust concentration exceeding the limit posts by Qimeng Li, Xiaoying Li, Ge Qin, Yuanmeng Qi, Jie Liu, Xiaocui Tang, Di Wu, Changfu Hao, Sihua Wang

“…Five occupational health risk assessment (OHRA) methods, including Risk index method, Hazard grading method, International Council on Mining and Metals model, The synthesis index method, and The exposure ratio method, were used to assess the occupational health risk of the workplaces that produced silica dust and the concentration of silica dust exceeded the occupational exposure limits (OELs), and to compare the results of the different methods.ResultsThe risk index assessment method yielded one job of mild hazard, seven job of moderate hazard, fifteen jobs of high hazard, and forty-four jobs of extreme hazard. …”
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Effect of Latitude of Sunspots on Earth-Intersecting Trajectory of Plasma by Alan Hoback

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Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe) à l’épreuve des sargasses : approches anthropologique et géographique d’un risque vécu by Florence Ménez, Colette Ranély Vergé-Dépré, Dimitri Béchacq

“…We will question the elaboration of various registers of memory of the risk and their articulation with the socio-spatial recompositions resulting from this hazard. …”
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Role of Age and Sex on the Incidence of Leukemia in a Sample of Iraqi Patients by Dahlia N. AL-Saidi

“…Understanding pertinent risk factors may therefore be important for leukemia prevention and mitigation. …”
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Prevalence of lumpy skin disease and associated risk factors in beef cattle in Rembang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia by Yayan Taufiq Hidayat, Roza Azizah Primatika, Yatri Drastini

“…This region holds the 4th number of most populous beef cattle producers in Central Java. However, until now, there have been no reports on the prevalence and risk factors related to LSD in beef cattle in Rembang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. …”
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Credit Risk Management Practices and Loan Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda. A Case Study of Commercial Banks in Mbarara City by Francis, Agaba

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Multidrug-Resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>: Risk Factors for Mortality in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital by Kristina Černiauskienė, Astra Vitkauskienė

“…Data on patients’ characteristics, comorbid diseases, treatment, length of hospital and ICU stay, and outcome were collected. Carbapenemase-producing isolates were detected phenotypically. To determine risk factors for in-hospital mortality, logistic regression analysis was performed. …”
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Simulation, technical-economic evaluation and risk analysis of the purification of different bio-oils obtained by the fast pyrolysis process by Stéphani Caroline de Lana Arêdes, Betânia Hoss Lunelli, Fábio de Ávila Rodrigues

“…Simulation is an important tool for predicting, modeling and understanding the feasibility of the desired process, along with economic analysis of risks and uncertainties, which are useful techniques for studying the feasibility of projects. …”
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Spatial Dynamics and Risk Mapping of Forest Fires in Madhesh Province, Nepal: A Multi-Criteria Decision Approach by Gunjan Adhikari, Khagendra Prasad Joshi, Dristee Chad, Ashish Ghimire, Sandeep Mahara

“…This research aims to understand forest fires, their trends, distribution, and relation with selected variables found in the sub-tropical forests of Madhesh Province of Nepal, and then identify potential fire risks and vulnerable areas. The selected fire incidents were analyzed using fire points produced by the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacterial Species from Pasteurized Dairy Products: Potential Risk to Consumer Health by Solomon H. Mariam

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Association Study between Novel CYP26 Polymorphisms and the Risk of Betel Quid-Related Malignant Oral Disorders by Shyh-Jong Wu, Yun-Ju Chen, Tien-Yu Shieh, Chun-Ming Chen, Yen-Yun Wang, Kun-Tsung Lee, Yueh-Ming Lin, Pei-Hsuan Chien, Ping-Ho Chen

“…BQ chewing may produce significant amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS), resulting in oral mucosa damage, and ROS may be metabolized by CYP26 families. …”
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Humpty Dumpty and High-Risk AI Systems: The Ratione Materiae Dimension of the Proposal for an EU Artificial Intelligence Act by Jérôme De Cooman

“…First, AI systems that produce unacceptable risk are prohibited by default. …”
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