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RISK ASSESSMENT

Specialty Definition: RISK ASSESSMENT

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

The qualitative and quantitative evaluation of risks posed to health or the environment that arise from an activity, chemical use, or technology. The process includes describing potential adverse effects, evaluating the magnitude of each risk (e.g., the toxicity of a chemical), estimating potential exposure to the chemical or other hazard, estimating the range of likely effects given the likely exposures, and describing uncertainties. (references)

Computing

An analysis of system assets and vulnerabilities to establish an expected loss from certain events based on estimated probabilities of the occurrence of those events. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the risk posed to human health and/or the environment by the actual or potential presence and/or use of specific pollutants. (references)
 The evaluation of the quality and the extension of a soil contamination and of its effects on human health and the environment. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

A procedure to assess a risk on the basis of the probability of occurrence and the extent of damage. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: RISK ASSESSMENT

Synonyms: Risk analysis, Risk evaluation. (additional references)
Synonym by domain: ra- (physics).

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Crosswords: RISK ASSESSMENT

Specialty definitions using "RISK ASSESSMENT": Characterization of Ecological Effects, Characterization of ExposureEcological Entity, Ecological risk assessment, Ecological risk characterizationOffice of the Chief Economist, ORACBAPesticide Data Program, Preconception Care, Program Evaluation and Review TechniqueRisk CharacterizationScreening Risk Assessmenttargeted risk assessment. (references)

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Commercial Usage: RISK ASSESSMENT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Business Portfolio Management: Valuation, Risk Assessment, and EVA Strategies (reference)

  • Business Risk Assessment (reference)

  • Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment (reference)

  • Enterprise Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis: Best Practices (reference)

  • Environmental Finance: A Guide to Environmental Risk Assessment and Financial Products (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Electronic Handbook Of Risk Assessment Values (reference)

  • International Journal Of Risk Assessment And Management (reference)

  • Stochastic Environmental Research And Risk Assessment (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: RISK ASSESSMENT

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Systematic research on caries Risk Assessment is needed using population-based cohort techniques. (references)

Identification of risk assessment methods and pharmacologic treatments and their use in conjunction with monitors should be pursued. (references)

Risk assessment using total cholesterol levels has proven valuable in identifying patients who are at elevated risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. (references)

Business

The application should contain a technical dossier including a full risk assessment. (references)

The goal in using the inspection policy is to maintain an up to date risk assessment of each financial entity. (references)

Economic History

China

These companies often do not fully investigate the market situation, don't perform the necessary risk assessment, and fail to get counsel. (references)

Korea

Since 1997-98, the ROKG has recapitalized the banks and non-bank financial institutions; closed or merged weak financial institutions; resolved many non-performing assets; introduced western risk assessment methods and accounting standards; forced depositors and investors to assume appropriate levels of risk; and ended the policy-directed lending of the past. (references)

Peru

Under the SBS's conservative criteria, over 9% of total loans were assessed as non-performing as of June 2001, down from 2000's high of 11%, but still above 1998's 7.4%. Competition from the entry of foreign banks and the provisioning requirements of the SBS -- which vary according to the risk assessment of each loan or other credit -- have brought about consolidation in the banking sector. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRALIA

The WTO SPS agreement requires, among other things, that Australia's restrictions undergo a risk assessment to ensure that any restrictions are science-based, rather than disguised non-tariff barriers. (references)

Trade

India

The fees charged by Ex-Im for its programs are based on the risk assessment of the foreign buyer or guarantor, the buyer's country, and term of the credit. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: RISK ASSESSMENT

Expression using "RISK ASSESSMENT": targeted risk assessment. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RISK ASSESSMENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

risk assessment

503

audit risk assessment

7

health risk assessment

92

bank risk assessment

6

risk assessment software

39

ecological risk assessment

6

security risk assessment

18

business risk assessment

5

risk assessment uk

18

threat risk assessment

5

fire risk assessment

17

probabilistic risk assessment

5

risk assessment tool

12

hipaa risk assessment

4

project risk assessment

11

political risk assessment

4

country risk assessment

11

dse risk assessment

4

environmental risk assessment

10

risk assessment model

3

cardiovascular risk assessment

9

risk assessment report

3

cancer risk assessment

9

credit risk assessment

3

quantitative risk assessment

9

risk assessment template

3

infection control risk assessment

8

health and safety risk assessment

2

computer security risk assessment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RISK ASSESSMENT

Language Translations for "RISK ASSESSMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

risikovurdering. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

risicoschatting, risicobeheer (catastrophes, disasters, failures, in order to minimize losses from hazards, injuries, or to achieve a desired low level of risk, risk management, thefts, vandalism etc.or to balance the losses from hazards etc.with the costs of risk control, way of organizing the activites in an enterprise), risicoanalyse. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riskinarvio, riskin arviointi. (various references)

   

French

  

estimation du risque (risk analysis), appréciation des risques, analyse du risque (risk analysis), analyse des risques (risk analysis), évaluation du risque, évaluation des risques. (various references)

   

German

  

Risikoschätzung, Risikobewertung (impact), Risikoanalyse (risk analysis), Risikoabschätzung (risk analysis), Gefaehrdungsabschaetzung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αξιολόγηση κινδύνου, ανάλυση κινδύνων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

valutazione dei rischi, stima e valutazione del rischio, stima del rischio (risk analysis), analisi del rischio (risk analysis), analisi dei rischi (risk analysis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iskray assessmentay

   

Portuguese

  

avaliação de riscos, avaliação de risco, análise de riscos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оценка риска. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

evaluación de riesgos, evaluación de los riesgos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

riskvärdering, riskbedömning, riskanalys. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RISK ASSESSMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-k-m-n-r-s-s-s-s-s-t"

-3 letters: assessments, smartnesses, starknesses, streakiness.

-4 letters: artinesses, assessment, matinesses, mistresses, remissness, seamstress, steaminess, trimnesses.

-5 letters: amnesties, ankerites, antimeres, arsenites, assenters, assisters, asterisks, asterisms, irateness, kirmesses, masseters, masteries, meatiness, messiness, misenters, missenses, missteers, mistakers, resinates, sarsenets, seaminess, seamsters, smartness, smeariest, snarkiest, sneakiest, starkness, stearines, steersman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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