But, the experts say, it is the grass in many city parks, so innocent-looking, so tempting, so redolent of the free-spirited days of childhood, that may pose the most unexpected risks, because unlike a rusty nail, they are invisible to the naked eye.
For instance, people judge the risks of radiation from nuclear power plants to be much higher than those from medical X-rays — a conclusion that is not backed up by the data and is at odds with the advice of most risk experts — simply because nuclear power plants seem more foreign and inspire greater dread.
For that matter, there was very little heat anywhere in the building, except in the cooking-rooms and such places — and it was the men who worked in these who ran the most risk of all, because whenever they had to pass to another room they had to go through ice-cold corridors, and sometimes with nothing on above the waist except a sleeveless undershirt.
The unanimous opinion of the participants was that cleaning products were the most toxic and posed the most risk to children because of their perfume-like smell, corrosiveness, and variety.
The development of exposure databases has always constituted a great challenge in modeling disaster risk because, in most cases, in order to complete the identification and characterization process, data from several sources need to be combined, leading to a process where assumptions and simplifications are usually required.
Because most risk factors for dying after bacteremia or fungemia may not be changeable, prevention efforts must focus on new infection-control technology and techniques.
This is important because, unlike most risk factors for PJI (Jämsen et al. 2010, Bozic et al. 2012, Chen et al. 2013), hyperglycemia can be modified.
"If you think about it, we're also the ones who are most at risk, because we're flying the most.
Some African nations are among those most at risk because of their trade dependence on the region.
