Comparative hydrological drought-flood risk modelling at Northern Mexico and West African Sahel region.

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The estimate of damage comes from disaster risk modelling firm Eqecat.

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Banks and rating agencies were gripped by the pretence that all finance can be calculated by risk-modelling eggheads.

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Many reinsurers are sceptical about modelling terrorist risk.

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ZestCash, which operates through a website people in need of a loan access, says it can charge less, perhaps 300%, by better economic modelling and better risk management, using Internet-type search of non-obviouis data.

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The threat modelling approach addresses data loss risk, hardware failure risk, jurisdictional risk, external hacker risk, dishonest employee risk, and employee death or disability risk.

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The software lets the fire brigade use a technique known as modelling regression to target places that register as at high risk for fire.

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Modelling based on experience with previous plants suggests that the risk of a significant radiation leak from generation I reactors was between one in 1, 000 and one in 10, 000 per reactor year.

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Mathematical modelling suggests that if microbicides were used by only 20% of women at risk, and were used only half the time, this would still prevent more than 2.5m infections over three years.

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