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Investment and Commercial Banks' Management and Risk Assessment

include HSBC (formerly the Midland Bank), Lloyds TSB, National Westminster Bank, (commonly known as Nat West) and Barclays Bank. T...

eCommerce Remedies and Security Risks

little legal protection in terms of privacy on the Internet, many companies do their best to utilize technology so that a consumer...

A Vitamin B12 Overview

Whitaker notes that dementia is due to a deficiency of B-12 (1994). Certain populations, other than the elderly, tend to be def...

Last Minute Death Sentence Commutation by Illinois Governor George Ryan

recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students and Risk Factors

fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

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

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...

Risk Management, Security, and Communication

to inappropriate individuals or departments. This can perhaps best be illustrated by looking at the use of IT within a corporate s...

Risk Management Issues in E-Law

If what is being offered at a specific site is intriguing enough that it causes the individual to give up credit card information ...

'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...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

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...

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...

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...

Silent and Shadow Accounts and Tesco

still an internal publication and may suffer from the same bias. It shadow accounts have the potential of addressing the asymmetry...

Measurement of Credit Risk

to look at portfolios of risk as well as individual risk, looking as aspects such as concentration risk. This is often dealt with ...