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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...

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 ...

Exchange Risk Exposure and International Trade

be a need to determine how to limit or constrain risk. There are several ways this may be undertaken. The first is to trade only i...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 Heart Disease

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies

This research paper reviews recent research that indicates prevention strategies that affect overall risk for breast cancer. Six p...

African American Women, HIV, and Health Promotion

This research paper pertains to an health promotion program that pertains to the need of African American women to reduce HIV risk...

Issues Concerning Children Identified as Gifted

There has been a great deal of research about gifted children over the last decade or so. They may not become eminent but they wil...

Electronic Patient Records and Ethical Issues

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the use of electronic patient records. Example case studies highlight the risks and b...

Resilient Children and Interventions

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at resilience in children. Interventions for at-risk populations are examined. Paper u...

PTSD, Effects on Life Circumstances

This research paper describes the symptoms of PTSD, but then goes on to discuss the effects that PTSD has on the lives of its vict...

Hungry Children in America

This essay reports statistical data regarding families living below the poverty line and the numbers of children who are food inse...

Risk and Cardiovascular Disease

This research paper pertains to literature that discusses cardiovascular disease, with a focus on risk factors. Seven pages in len...

ERP Questions and Essay Summaries

Using a book provided by the student, the writer answers a series of questions relating to enterprise risk management (ERP) and ge...