Risk Analysis: Celebrating the Accomplishments and Embracing Ongoing Challenges.

As part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Society for Risk Analysis and Risk Analysis: An International Journal, this essay reviews the 10 most important accomplishments of risk analysis from 1980 to 2010, outlines major accomplishments in three major categories from 2011 to 2019, discusses how editors circulate authors' accomplishments, and proposes 10 major risk-related challenges for 2020-2030. Authors conclude that the next decade will severely test the field of risk analysis.

Interpretation of complex DNA profiles using empirical models and a method to measure their robustness.

A new methodology is presented in order to report complex DNA profiles. We have brought together a number of different theories in order to devise a new protocol to interpret complex cases using likelihood ratios. The calculations are designed to be highly conservative and are widely applicable.