Minimizing Risk and Improving Operational Availability in the Pipeline Industry

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G. A. Raynor
Keyword(s):  
Financial Success ◽  
Actual Risk ◽  
The Cost

Risk is a function of the probability and consequence of an event that negatively impacts pipeline operations. These events may range from the shut-in of a compressor to a pipeline rupture. In order to quantify risk, it is important to have a thorough method of evaluating the probability and severity of the incident. Until recently, the methods used to assess risk have been mostly subjective and qualitative. Enhanced methods are now available that allow pipeline companies to gain a better understanding of the true risk and to realistically determine the availability and reliability of the pipeline. These methods facilitate balancing the cost of extra safeguards or protection layers with the actual risk of an event occurring, ultimately improving the financial success of a pipeline company.

Efficient and effective cow feeding

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
I.A. Wright ◽  
A.J.F. Russel
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Energy Restriction ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Beef Cow ◽  
Foetal Growth ◽  
Efficient Control ◽  
Calf Performance ◽  
The Cost ◽  
High Output

The financial success of beef cow enterprises depends to a large extent on efficient control of cow feeding. The fact that the single suckled beef cow has to be maintained for a whole year to produce one calf means that the cost of feeding the cow represents the biggest single variable cost. Thus winter feeding must be controlled to ensure the correct balance between feed inputs and cow and calf performance, and summer grazing management must be designed to ensure high animal performance, high output per hectare and efficient grassland utilization.Eighty percent of foetal growth occurs during the last 3 months of pregnancy and so any effect of energy restriction on calf birth weight should be most evident at that time. Russel et al (1979) showed that relatively severe levels of undernutrition were required to reduce calf birth weight by 10-15% and that subsequent calf viability and growth rate were unimpaired.

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Adequacy Ratio of Banks in Botswana

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Hassan Kablay ◽  
Victor Gumbo
Keyword(s):  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Capital Adequacy Ratio ◽  
Income Ratio ◽  
Equity Ratio ◽  
The Cost

Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) plays a very important role in the financial success of banks and acts as a buffer to prevent and absorb any unexpected losses. This study examines explanatory variables that influence CAR for nine banks in Botswana. Multiple linear regression was used for analysis, with CAR as the dependent variable and thirteen financial ratios as the independent variables. The study period is 2015-2019. Based on the data for this period, it was established that out of the thirteen financial ratios utilised, only four were found to have significant impact on the CAR of the nine banks under study, which are: Asset to Equity Ratio (A E), Return on Equity (ROE), Non-Performing Loans Ratio (NPL RATIO) and the Cost-to-Income Ratio (C I). The A E Ratio was found to be the most influential driver of the CAR and the NPL Ratio was found to be the least influential driver of the CAR for the banks under study.

The IBM-PC in electron microscopy

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 612-613
Author(s):  
James F. Mancuso
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Financial Applications ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Instrument Control ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Training And Support ◽  
Control Image ◽  
Ibm Pc

IBM PC compatible computers are widely used in microscopy for applications ranging from control to image acquisition and analysis. The choice of IBM-PC based systems over competing computer platforms can be based on technical merit alone or on a number of factors relating to economics, availability of peripherals, management dictum, or simple personal preference.IBM-PC got a strong “head start” by first dominating clerical, document processing and financial applications. The use of these computers spilled into the laboratory where the DOS based IBM-PC replaced mini-computers. Compared to minicomputer, the PC provided a more for cost-effective platform for applications in numerical analysis, engineering and design, instrument control, image acquisition and image processing. In addition, the sitewide use of a common PC platform could reduce the cost of training and support services relative to cases where many different computer platforms were used. This could be especially true for the microscopists who must use computers in both the laboratory and the office.

New Feasible Concepts of Aberration Correction for Realizing High-Resolution Electron Microscopes

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
H. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Wave Length ◽  
Electron Wave ◽  
Optical Lens ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
Rotationally Symmetric ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Imaging Performance ◽  
Acceleration Voltage

The imaging performance of the light optical lens systems has reached such a degree of perfection that nowadays numerical apertures of about 1 can be utilized. Compared to this state of development the objective lenses of electron microscopes are rather poor allowing at most usable apertures somewhat smaller than 10-2 . This severe shortcoming is due to the unavoidable axial chromatic and spherical aberration of rotationally symmetric electron lenses employed so far in all electron microscopes.The resolution of such electron microscopes can only be improved by increasing the accelerating voltage which shortens the electron wave length. Unfortunately, this procedure is rather ineffective because the achievable gain in resolution is only proportional to λ1/4 for a fixed magnetic field strength determined by the magnetic saturation of the pole pieces. Moreover, increasing the acceleration voltage results in deleterious knock-on processes and in extreme difficulties to stabilize the high voltage. Last not least the cost increase exponentially with voltage.

An application: the cost of clinic care by undergraduate dental students and its relationship to clinic fees

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 832-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
ES Solomon ◽  
TK Hasegawa ◽  
JD Shulman ◽  
PO Walker
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
The Cost

The effect of heliotherapy on the cost of psoriasis, p. 288

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-205
Author(s):  
Snellman ◽  
Maljanen ◽  
Aromaa ◽  
Reunanen ◽  
Jyrkinen‐Pakkasvirta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Cost

718: Modeling the Cost of Management Options for Stage I Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors: A Decision Tree Analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (4S) ◽  
pp. 195-196
Author(s):  
Richard E. Link ◽  
Mohamad E. Allaf ◽  
Roberto Pili ◽  
Louis R. Kavoussi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Tree ◽  
Germ Cell ◽  
Germ Cell Tumors ◽  
Stage I ◽  
Decision Tree Analysis ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Tree Analysis ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors

152: Urinary Incontinence: The Cost Burden for Women

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 40-40
Author(s):  
Leslee L. Subak ◽  
Stephen K. Van Den Eeden ◽  
Jeanette S. Brown ◽  
Arona I. Ragins ◽  
Eric Vittinghoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Cost Burden ◽  
The Cost
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