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PAPERBACK price:$39.75 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System Other Related Titles Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change (2008) Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications (BMSA) Board on Life Sciences (BLS) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix M: Acronyms." Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008. Please select a format: Page 157   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix M Acronyms 9/11 September 11, 2001 BDM Bioterrorist Decision Model BTCC Biological Threat Characterization Center BTRA Biological Threat Risk Assessment CBA cost-benefit analysis CBRN chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CREATE Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events DALY disability-adjusted life-year DHS Department of Homeland Security DNA deoxyribonucleic acid DSS decision support system EP exceedance probability EPA Environmental Protection Agency FY fiscal year GAO General Accounting Office; now Government Accountability Office HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive IDS interdependent security IL-4 interleukin-4 LHS Latin Hypercube Sampling NBACC National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center NRC National Research Council OMB Office of Management and Budget PCR polymerase chain reaction PDF probability density function PRA probabilistic risk assessment QALY quality-adjusted life-year RNA ribonucleic acid SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome SEIR susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered SME subject-matter expert SRA Society for Risk Analysis TOPOFF Top Officials U.S. NRC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission WMD weapons of mass destruction Page 157 Front Matter (R1-R14) Summary (1-5) 1 Introduction (6-10) 2 The Critical Contribution of Risk Analysis to Risk Management and Reduction of Bioterrorism Risk (11-19) 3 Description and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Threat Risk Assessment of 2006 (20-33) 4 Department of Homeland Security Decision Requirements for Risk Management (34-41) 5 Risk Assessment for Unknown and Engineered Biothreat Agents (42-46) 6 Improving Bioterrorism Consequence Assessment (47-50) 7 Improving the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Threat Risk Assessment and Adding Risk Management (51-60) Appendix A: Lexicon (61-77) Appendix B: Mathematical Characterization of the Biological Threat Risk Assessment Event Tree and Risk Assessment (78-79) Appendix C: Computational Example Illustrating the Replacement of a Joint Distribution of Arc Probabilities with Marginal Expected Values of Individual Arc Probabilities (80-84) Appendix D: Bioterrorism Risk Analysis with Decision Trees (85-89) Appendix E: Optimizing Department of Homeland Security Defense Investments: Applying Defender-Attacker (-Defender) Optimization to Terror Risk Assessment and Mitigation (90-102) Appendix F: Combining Game Theory and Risk Analysis in Counterterrorism: A Smallpox Example (103-110) Appendix G: On the Quantification of Uncertainty and Enhancing Probabilistic Risk Analysis (111-115) Appendix H: Game Theory and Interdependencies (116-121) Appendix I: Review of BTRA Modeling (122-125) Appendix J: Reprinted Interim Report (126-148) Appendix K: Meeting Agendas (149-152) Appendix L: Biographies of Committee Members (153-156) Appendix M: Acronyms (157-158)

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Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change Appendix M Acronyms 9/11 September 11, 2001 BDM Bioterrorist Decision Model BTCC Biological Threat Characterization Center BTRA Biological Threat Risk Assessment CBA cost-benefit analysis CBRN chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CREATE Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events DALY disability-adjusted life-year DHS Department of Homeland Security DNA deoxyribonucleic acid DSS decision support system EP exceedance probability EPA Environmental Protection Agency FY fiscal year GAO General Accounting Office; now Government Accountability Office HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive IDS interdependent security IL-4 interleukin-4 LHS Latin Hypercube Sampling NBACC National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center NRC National Research Council OMB Office of Management and Budget PCR polymerase chain reaction PDF probability density function PRA probabilistic risk assessment QALY quality-adjusted life-year RNA ribonucleic acid SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome SEIR susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered SME subject-matter expert SRA Society for Risk Analysis TOPOFF Top Officials U.S. NRC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission WMD weapons of mass destruction

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