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Taking Risks in Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo

in some ways regrettable displacement of the aristocracy from their traditional position" (Horton). In this relatively simple desc...

Protection and Data Risk

exploitation of any potential vulnerabilities that have been discovered in stage 1, the actual hacking, either to gain the inform...

Investment Period and the Value of Investment Risk Measurement

Both of these questions gauge an investors reaction to a fluctuating market. If his immediate response to an increase in an inves...

Emerging Market Investment Modes and Multinational Corporations

shortcomings when it comes to diversification and competition. 1. Factor Conditions : The nations position in factors of producti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CPM and PERT Management Tools of Project Planning

be introducing a new project, reengineering a department, installing a new network, establishing better communication in a multin...

Information on Investment

- they expect that the value of these instruments will increase over time (Motleyfool.com (b), 2002). Therefore, the basic premise...

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 ...

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...

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...

Financial Risk Management

the more obligations of protecting other stakeholder interests. It also needs to be argued that in undertaking to manage risk, the...

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 ...