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Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. [2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of ...
It ranked states based on 52 safety indicators, including work safety and emergency preparedness. Vermont was ranked the safest state in the US, followed by New Hampshire and Maine.
The Women, Peace and Security Index (WPS) scores and ranks countries in terms of women's security, justice, and inclusion. [1] The index is widely used to compare countries as well as their development trends over time.
The inaccuracy of the company's indexing has been debated after a list was issued for the German Newspaper Bild's website after the crash of Air France Flight 447, displaying the safety index of the world's 60 biggest airlines. [5] The list included Turkish Airlines as the list's 60th, and least safe, airline. The starting year for the list was ...
The Dow Fire and Explosion Index is essentially a measure of inherent danger and is the most widely used quantification of inherent safety. [6] A more specific index of inherently safe design has been proposed by Heikkilä, [1] and variations of this have been published. [18] [19] [20] However all of these are much more complex than the Dow F ...
The therapeutic index (TI; also referred to as therapeutic ratio) is a quantitative measurement of the relative safety of a drug with regard to risk of overdose.It is a comparison of the amount of a therapeutic agent that causes toxicity to the amount that causes the therapeutic effect. [1]
The Waffle House Index is a metric named after the ubiquitous Southern US restaurant chain Waffle House known for its 24-hour, 365-day service. [1] Since this restaurant always remains open (except in extreme circumstances), it has given rise to an informal but useful metric to determine the severity of a storm and the likely scale of ...
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