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Migraines and Stroke Risks

women remains small, however about 15 out of every 100,000 women who experience the aura with their migraines will end up also hav...

Radio Pranks That are Dangerous and/or Illegal

prank acceptable even if it harms others, or is morally wrong, or is illegal? What standards should the radio stations follow? A...

Robert Montoya Vineyards and an Investment Analysis Proposal

One particular article contends that cost of capital can be considered a type of commonsense reality check on the return prospects...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

General Information on Cochlear Implant

hearing loss and is successful in children as young as eighteen months. This is true despite some controversy not only due to cul...

Energy Industry and Risk Management

explain the need for risk management in this particular industry. Why risk management? While sound risk management is esse...

Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

Employment Hazards Associated with Being an Electrician

been an electrician for well over thirty years, and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity tha...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Client Profile Influence and Investment Advice

In five pages this paper features a financial adviser's perspective regarding how recommendations are influenced by wealth, age, a...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Issues in Project Management

project management" (2001, p. 34). This includes investigating past successes and failures for prior projects (Cameron, 2001). Th...

Nurse Practitioner Profession and Risks of Musculoskeletal Injuries

and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...

Structure, Strategy, and Culture of Bail Hostels

overall savings for the correctional environment as a whole in that bail hostels have proven to reduce criminal recidivism. Juven...

Fighting Cardiac Disease

vulnerable to the condition. Such individuals can help by keeping their blood glucose levels as normal as possible because increas...

Emerging Markets of India and China

a most promising base for software development" (University of Bridgeport, nd). There are a number of risks in India, however, th...

F.O.B. and C.I.F. Contracts

statute law in the form of the Bills of Lading Act 1855 (White and Bradgate, 1993). This act was repealed by The Carriage of Goods...

Overview of Pediatric Asthma

would be inhaled corticosteroids. These work very well on pre-school and school aged children alike and the negative side effects...

Personal Financial Review on Investing

We also need to consider the income that the family have. Mrs Chan does not have a regular income, however Mr Chan is...

An At-Risk Brooklyn Youth Case Study

involved in drug dealing and in fact, by the time he would turn 14 years old, would carry a gun ("Shawn," 1993). By the time he is...

A Business Projection Example

for the company to be able to undertake a specific project that will involve a three year contract for the setting up of a network...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

Legal Issues and E-Commerce

law is relatively simple. However, copyright law is complex, especially when applied to the Internet. II. Copyright Laws and Pro...

At Risk Program Design Targeting Juvenile Delinquency

an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...

Offshore Pension Plan Investment

The Dow nearly crossed into 3,000 territory long enough to close there on several occasions prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and fina...

Literature Review of Educating Students Who Are At Risk

that has focused on the teacher-student relationship has concluded that this kind of relationships provides a feeling of safety a...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

Contracts, Obligations, and Risks

if a project is delayed due to weather or even a union strike of employees? These are all risks that contractors take into account...

Labor and Delivery Nursing and Civil Negligence Issues

2000). In other words, medical malpractice is a form of negligence that "denotes an injury to a patient caused by a health care pr...

Piper Alpha Oil Platform Catastrophe of 1988

some of the fire walls and soon the stored oil was burning. In addition, the automatic deluge system which was supposed to spray w...