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Fighting Cardiac Disease

vulnerable to the condition. Such individuals can help by keeping their blood glucose levels as normal as possible because increas...

Overview of Microsporidiosis

AIDS sufferers, with an incidence rate of between 7% - 50% (Lores et al, 2002). However, it is not isolated to this group, the fir...

7 Risk Management Questions

even this single company can define the risks that it faces until it defines parameters of operation. Q2. Objectives or criteria u...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Examination of Cardiovascular Disease

the current trend toward the modified food pyramid; once top-heavy with animal flesh, the new version touts the combined physical ...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Literature Review on Sexual Orientation and Risk of Suicide

may also contribute to the high suicide rate (Riddle, 1996). While this may be considered a landmark study, other studies have sho...

Hormone Replacement Therapy's Risks and Rewards

hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, has its own risks associated with it (Hormone Replacement Therapy, 2002). Therefore, it is i...

Are Vaccinations Safe?

condition that they do not pursue lawsuits against the companies involved. Considering the sobering fact that a vaccination can ca...

Piper Alpha Oil Platform Catastrophe of 1988

some of the fire walls and soon the stored oil was burning. In addition, the automatic deluge system which was supposed to spray w...

Examination of Enron

for the scandal that ultimately occurred. "The contributions dwarfed what was at stake for Enron. In its energy trading in Calif...

Literature Review of Educating Students Who Are At Risk

that has focused on the teacher-student relationship has concluded that this kind of relationships provides a feeling of safety a...

Lands' End Acquisition by Sears

One group of 16 Lands End executives will be given bonuses that are equal to 70 to 100 percent of their salary if they stay on wit...

Offshore Pension Plan Investment

The Dow nearly crossed into 3,000 territory long enough to close there on several occasions prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and fina...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

Contracts, Obligations, and Risks

if a project is delayed due to weather or even a union strike of employees? These are all risks that contractors take into account...

Labor and Delivery Nursing and Civil Negligence Issues

2000). In other words, medical malpractice is a form of negligence that "denotes an injury to a patient caused by a health care pr...

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...

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...

Best Practices in Risk Management and eBusiness Law

screen out the addresses of re-shippers, but cyber thieves have responded by recruiting" (Voyles, 2003; p. PG) others to use their...

3 Sources of Innovation at Sony

Sonys introduction of the first consumer camcorder in 1983 also could be assured of being popular. These and other innovations ce...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Risk Management and Financial Services

has a poor reputation with customers, a common problem in the financial services industry. * The Chairmans goal is to (1) implemen...

Auditing Risk Scenarios

is the risk that certain transaction types or an account balance may be misstated, either due to individual transactions or as the...

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...

Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

Outline for Proposals for 10 Dissertations

easy to obtain. However, with organisations such as the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London there is a good sourc...

Investment Portfolio Development

the market operates. The market place works on a system of expectation and well as logical influences. If it is believed by a brok...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...