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Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Volume 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction -- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions -- 17. …”
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Biological safety principles and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Microbial flora of humans and microbial virulence factors -- Indigenous and pathogenic agents of research animals -- Laboratory, growth chamber, and greenhouse microbial safety: plant pathogens and plant-associated microorganisms of significance to human health -- Epidemiology of laboratory-associated infections -- Risk assessment of biological hazards -- Bacterial pathogens -- Protozoa and helminths -- Mycotic agents of human disease -- Viral agents of human disease: biosafety concerns -- Biosafety for microorganisms transmitted primarily by the airborne route -- Cell lines: applications and biosafety -- Allergens of animal and biological systems -- Biological toxins: safety and science -- Design of biomedical laboratory facilities -- Primary barriers and equipment-associated hazards -- Priamry barriers: biological safety cabinets, fume hoods, and glove boxes -- Personal respiratory protection -- Standard (Universal) precautions for handling human specimens -- Prudent biosafety practices -- Decontamination and disinfection -- Packing and shipping biological materials -- Biological safety program management -- Biosafety compliance: a global perspective -- Occupational medicine in a biomedical research setting -- Measuring biosafety program effectiveness -- Biosafety of prion diseases -- Safety considerations in the BSL-4 maximum-containment laboratory -- Biosafety and viral gene transfer vectors -- Biosafety in the teaching laboratory -- Biosafety in the pharmaceutical industry -- Large-scale production of microorganisms -- Special considerations for agriculture pathogen biosafety -- Biosafety and biosecurity: regulatory impact.…”
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Soil and groundwater remediation technologies : a practical guide /

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Dose, benefit, and risk in medical imaging /

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HAZARDS AND SAFETY IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES case studies. by Purkait, Mihir Kumar, Mondal, Piyal, Changmai, Murchana, Volli, Vikranth, Shu, Chi-Min

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Industrial pollution including oil spills

Table of Contents: “…Anyanwu, R. N. Okigbo -- Risk assessment of airborne particles and volatile organic compounds from industrial areas / Andrea Mueller ... …”
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Child protection and the care continuum : theoretical, empirical and practice insights /

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Floods in a changing climate by Simonovi�c, Slobodan P.

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Dioxins and health including other persistent organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors /

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson -- The seveso accident / Angela Cecilia Pesatori, Pier Alberto Bertazzi -- Agent orange : long term health and environmental impact in Vietnam / Susan Hammond, Arnold Schecter -- The yusho and yucheng rice oil poisoning incidents / Yoshito Masuda, Arnold Schecter -- The Binghamtom New York electrical transformer fire incident of 1981 / Nancy Kim, Arnold Schecter -- The Yushchenko dioxin poisoning : chronology and pharmacokinetics / John Jake Ryan -- Human health risk assessment of POPS / David Szabo, Anne E. Loccisano.…”
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Ecotoxicology of nanoparticles in aquatic systems /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; 1: Toxicity of Metal and Metal Oxide Engineered Nanoparticles to Phytoplankton; 2: Sublethal Effects of Nanoparticles on Aquatic Invertebrates, from Molecular to Organism Level; 3: In Vitro Testing: In Vitro Toxicity Testing with Bivalve Mollusc and Fish Cells for the Risk Assessment of Nanoparticles in the Aquatic Environment; 4: Toxicity Tests and Bioassays for Aquatic Ecotoxicology of Engineered Nanomaterials; 5: Nanomaterial Transport and Ecotoxicity in Fish Embryos…”
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Executive roadmap to fraud prevention and internal control creating a culture of compliance / by Biegelman, Martin T.

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BioElectroMagnetics human safety and biomedical applications / by Habash, Riadh W. Y.

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Child protection using research to improve policy and practice /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Initial construction of an actuarial risk assessment measure using the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being / Aron Shlonsky -- Building on strengths : current status and opportunities for improvement of parent training for families in child welfare / Michael S. …”
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Stalking, threatening, and attacking public figures a psychological and behavioral analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Cupach -- Operations of the LAPD threat management unit / Jeff Dunn -- Risk assessment of public figure stalkers / P. Randall Kropp, Stephen D. …”
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Detection and quantification of antibodies to biopharmaceuticals practical and applied considerations /

Table of Contents: “…Principals of risk assessment and monitoring of antibody responses to biopharmaceuticals / Eugen Koren, Erik Foehr, and Charles A. …”
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A practical guide to teaching physical education in the secondary school /

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Statistical disclosure control

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Concepts and Definitions 2 1.1.1 Disclosure 2 1.1.2 Statistical disclosure control 2 1.1.3 Tabular data 3 1.1.4 Microdata 3 1.1.5 Risk and utility 4 1.2 An approach to Statistical Disclosure Control 6 1.3 The chapters of the handbook 8 2 Ethics, Principles, Guidelines and Regulations, a general background 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Ethical codes and the new ISI code 9 2.2.1 ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.2 New ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.3 European Statistics Code of Practice 14 2.3 UNECE Principles and guidelines 14 2.4 Laws 17 2.4.1 Committee on Statistical Confidentiality 18 2.4.2 European Statistical System Committee 18 3 Microdata 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Microdata Concepts 22 3.2.1 Stage 1: Assess need for confidentiality protection 22 3.2.2 Stage 2: Key characteristics and uses of microdata 24 3.2.3 Stage 3: Disclosure risk 27 3.2.4 Stage 4: Protection methods 29 3.2.5 Stage 5: Implementation 30 3.3 Definitions of disclosure 32 3.3.1 Definitions of disclosure scenarios 33 3.4 Definitions of Disclosure Risk 34 3.4.1 Disclosure risk for categorical quasi-identifiers 35 3.4.2 Disclosure risk for continuous quasi-identifiers 37 3.5 Estimating Re-identification Risk 39 3.5.1 Individual risk based on the sample: threshold rule 39 3.5.2 Estimating individual risk using sampling weights 39 3.5.3 Estimating individual risk by Poisson model 42 3.5.4 Further models that borrow information from other sources 43 3.5.5 Estimating per record risk via heuristics 44 3.5.6 Assessing risk via record linkage 45 3.6 Non-Perturbative Microdata Masking 45 3.6.1 Sampling 46 3.6.2 Global recoding 46 3.6.3 Top and bottom coding 47 3.6.4 Local suppression 47 3.7 Perturbative Microdata Masking 48 3.7.1 Additive noise masking 48 3.7.2 Multiplicative noise masking 52 3.7.3 Microaggregation 54 3.7.4 Data swapping and rank swapping 66 3.7.5 Data shuffling 66 3.7.6 Rounding 67 3.7.7 Resampling 67 3.7.8 PRAM 67 3.7.9 MASSC 71 3.8 Synthetic and Hybrid Data 71 3.8.1 Fully synthetic data 72 3.8.2 Partially synthetic data 77 3.8.3 Hybrid data 79 3.8.4 Pros and cons of synthetic and hybrid data 88 3.9 Information Loss in Microdata 91 3.9.1 Information loss measures for continuous data 92 3.9.2 Information loss measures for categorical data 99 3.10 Release of multiple files from the same microdata set 101 3.11 Software 102 3.11.1 _-ARGUS 102 3.11.2 sdcMicro 103 3.11.3 IVEware 106 3.12 Case Studies 106 3.12.1 Microdata files at Statistics Netherlands 106 3.12.2 The European Labour Force Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 108 3.12.3 The European Structure of Earnings Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 111 3.12.4 NHIS Linked Mortality Data Public Use File, USA 117 3.12.5 Other real case instances 119 4 Magnitude tabular data 121 4.1 Introduction 121 4.1.1 Magnitude Tabular Data: Basic Terminology 121 4.1.2 Complex tabular data structures: hierarchical and linked tables 122 4.1.3 Risk Concepts 124 4.1.4 Protection Concepts 127 4.1.5 Information Loss Concepts 127 4.1.6 Implementation: Software, Guidelines and Case Study 127 4.2 Disclosure Risk Assessment I: Primary Sensitive Cells 128 4.2.1 Intruder Scenarios 128 4.2.2 Sensitivity rules 129 4.3 Disclosure Risk Assessment II: Secondary risk assessment 140 4.3.1 Feasibility Interval 141 4.3.2 Protection Level 142 4.3.3 Singleton and multi cell disclosure 143 4.3.4 Risk models for hierarchical and linked tables 144 4.4 Non-Perturbative Protection Methods 145 4.4.1 Global Recoding 145 4.4.2 The Concept of Cell Suppression 145 4.4.3 Algorithms for Secondary Cell Suppression 146 4.4.4 Secondary Cell Suppression in Hierarchical and Linked Tables 149 4.5 Perturbative Protection Methods 151 4.5.1 A pre-tabular method: Multiplicative Noise 152 4.5.2 A Post-tabular Method: Controlled Tabular Adjustment 153 4.6 Information Loss Measures for Tabular Data 153 4.6.1 Cell Costs for Cell Suppression 153 4.6.2 Cell Costs for CTA 154 4.6.3 Information Loss Measures to Evaluate the Outcome of Table Protection 155 4.7 Software for Tabular Data Protection 155 4.7.1 Empirical comparison of cell suppression algorithms 156 4.8 Guidelines: Setting up an efficient table model systematically 160 4.8.1 Defining Spanning Variables 161 4.8.2 Response Variables and Mapping Rules 162 4.9 Case Studies 164 4.9.1 Response Variables and Mapping Rules of the Case Study 164 4.9.2 Spanning Variables of the Case Study 165 4.9.3 Analysing the Tables of the Case Study 165 4.9.4 Software Issues of the Case Study 167 5 Frequency tables 169 5.1 Introduction 169 5.2 Disclosure risks 169 5.3 Methods 176 5.4 Post-tabular methods 178 5.4.1 Cell Suppression 178 5.4.2 ABS Cell Perturbation 179 5.4.3 Rounding 179 5.5 Information loss 184 5.6 Software 186 5.6.1 Introduction 186 5.7 Case Studies 188 5.7.1 UK Census 188 5.7.2 Australian and New Zealand Censuses 190 6 Data Access Issues 193 6.1 Introduction 193 6.2 Research Data Centres 193 6.3 Remote Execution 194 6.4 Remote Access 195 6.5 Licensing 196 6.6 Guidelines on output checking 196 6.6.1 Introduction 196 6.6.2 General approach 197 6.6.3 Rules for output checking 199 6.6.4 Organizational/procedural aspects of output checking 208 6.6.5 Researcher training 215 6.7 Additional issues concerning data access 218 6.7.1 Examples of disclaimers 218 6.7.2 Output description 218 6.8 Case Studies 219 6.8.1 The U.S. …”
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Infectious diseases of the dog and cat : a color handbook.

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Computational Nanotoxicology : Challenges and Perspectives /

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