SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Risks to Assets

Essays 481 - 510

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...

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...

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...

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....

Risk and a Work Project's Breakdown Schedule

4 weeks * Team prepares RFP for technology and installation * Team determines a select list of vendors to query. This requires res...

Investment Portfolio Risk Measurement

can be used to assess the risk. This is only of value if there is the ability to place this in a quantifiable framework. There ar...

Teens and Premarital Sex

1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...

IS and Risk Assessment

hackers can readily infiltrate any given companys entire computer system with the intent to destroy data is more than enough reaso...

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations and Risk Assessment

relating to the equipment. The employee then has the duty to utilise the equipment in accordance with this training. Employees are...

Family Therapy Problem and Solution Focuses

behaviorists and placed their emphasis on the present (Bertolino, 2003). Various problem-focused approaches were consequently deve...

Debate on Gun Control

statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other w...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Investment Portfolio Determination

for the majority of the portfolio will be ten years or more. To undertake this assessment we will first look at some basic requi...

Organizations and Terrorism Threats

many perspectives, it has also served to heighten political and ideological disputes across borders as well. We no longer live ou...

3 Terms of Project Management

completed to date (Wideman, 2002). Earned values "uses original estimates and progress-to-date to show whether the actual costs in...

Crisis and Risk Management Nexus

can be anything from an unexpected financial set-back, a natural disaster such as a flood or an earthquake, the malfeasance of a c...

Swiss Franc, Australian Dollar, and Exchange Rates Risks

rated, the currency values will adjust to create parity. This had not occurred in early 1984, and the investors may be seen as ove...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

Concepts of Emergency Management

appropriate policies and procedures (Bechtel et al, 2000). The belief here is that creating a plan to encompass events that are li...

Twenty Three Questions on International Finance Answered

The equation is Ks = Krf + B ( Km - Krf). Here Ks is the rate of return required, Krf is the risk free rate, usually measured...