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Organizational Security and Risk Perceptions

perceived threat, it also offers a valuable insight to the ways in which organizational policy is crafted to address issues of ris...

Taiwan and the Potential of Asset Backed Securities

studying the models and then comparing the way that Taiwan is developing should then give two valuable results. Firstly an indicat...

Javacom Case Study on Risk Assessment and Behavior

involves analyzing influence factors that could have an impact on the base cost estimate (Igbal and Rye, 2002). Ranging is the pro...

K through 12 Student Risk Factors in Las Vegas and in the Clark County School District

more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, use illegal drugs and commit petty crimes than are peers who do not gamble, which places addi...

CAPM, APT, and Risk Assessment

growth and also dividend income. The same may be said of property, where there is capital growth and income from rent or leases. H...

'Risk Society' Concept of Ulrich Beck

classes in the past which may have been protected from certain risks, no longer have that protection in terms of possible global h...

The Elderly and Anemia

elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

Description and Occupational Outlook of Computer Programming

In six pages the field of computer programming is examined in terms of its duties, salary, risks, and future occupational outlook....

Two Studies of Information Technology

gratification and for some purchases the inability to see and feel what they are. These different elements are seen as reassuring ...

Infertility Causes and Treatments

the womb. In total, more than $1 billion (Greenberg, 2003, p. C3) is spent each year on such infertility treatments. With this ne...

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

in the blood and is not properly transferred to the cells, the body begins to feel weak and fatigued from lack of energy (Type 2 D...

Case Study on Personal Finance

Therefore, each needs sufficient life insurance initially to pay of their individuals and the joint liabilities. There is also the...

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...

Assessment of Credit Risks by Commercial Banking and CAPM Use

as the market as a whole. The risk of any investment is usually measured in terms of the beta, the greater the...

Canada and Financial Risk

use. In this way however, hedging and conversion means less impact on profits because of volatile exchange rates. Translation ...

Financial Risk Management

the more obligations of protecting other stakeholder interests. It also needs to be argued that in undertaking to manage risk, the...

Project Procurement and Risk

well as a less steep learning curve. Moreover, where there is a competitive advantage linked to that purchase, either directly or ...

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...

Corporate Currency Risk Management

global, 1997; p. 87). Private capital movement increased at much the same rate. In 1990, about $50 billion in private capital fl...

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...

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...

'Numbers' of Pregnancy

after fertilization, the conceptus becomes a group of about 16 to 20 cells, which is than called a "morula, which means "ball of c...

Wal-Mart's Debt Financing and Capital Structure

billion (USD) U.S. program, which offered oustandings of more than $2 billion each year (Anonymous, 2002). During the earl...

Final Analysis in Hydrogen Car Country Selection

so, street and highway infrastructure is well developed and can handle much more automobile traffic than it currently is required ...

Duration, NPV, Mark to Market and Asset Liability Management Models of Risk Assessment

areas such as futures valuing but where there is a match between assets and liabilities there maybe better tools that can be used ...