In the 21st century, the combination of surveillance, corporate power and cyber crime make going online as risky to personal safety as crossing the road.
Instead, after sifting hundreds of variables, the researchers settled on 21 that coalesce into six categories: material well-being; housing and environment; educational well-being; health and safety; risky behaviour; and quality of school life.
Even if the device can be removed, restarting the reactor will be risky, given its safety record and its use of highly toxic plutonium as fuel, said Hideyuki Ban, co-director of the Citizens Nuclear Information Centerr, a watchdog group, and a member of an advisory government committee on Japan's long-term nuclear energy policy.
Immigrants may be more willing to take risky jobs if safety is considered a normal good and immigrants have lower incomes and wealth than natives.
The measures included personality traits, attitudes toward traffic safety, risky driving (errors, lapses, and traffic violations), and self-reported crash involvement and number of issued traffic tickets in the last 12 months.
While that model has been criticized by some health experts as risky to public safety, the province's justice minister has defended the plan, saying sales staff are well-equipped to discourage the cross-promotion of the products.
Politicians are considering regulations like limiting risky investments and introducing safety net measures to support ailing pension funds.
Investors dumped risky assets for the safety of the Treasury market, pushing yields to their lowest levels this year.
Under the plan, imports deemed to be especially risky would undergo mandatory safety certifications in the country of origin before shipment.
Investors jettisoned stocks as too risky and sought relative safety in bonds, sending share prices down sharply for much of the day.
