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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...

Risks and International Investments

a lower amount of investment, but may also carry higher risks (Dailami, 1998). There is also the aspect of the political environme...

Investment Banking and VAR

taken into consideration. The use of VAR is now seen by many as the benchmark of risk management, vice president of Citiban...

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...

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...

Factors in International Finance and Trade Development

to wonder if the currency regime would be a tripolar one (Tavlas, 1998). Despite these glitches however, one currency has tended t...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Adolescence, Quality of Life, and Suicide

the application of these viewpoints for troubled adolescent populations is a distinction that relates both to the value of human l...