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Concepts of Emergency Management

appropriate policies and procedures (Bechtel et al, 2000). The belief here is that creating a plan to encompass events that are li...

Arguing Against Breast Augmentation

problems associated with breast implants include capsular contraction, a hardening of the breast (Nissen, Newman, and McRee). Pat...

Argentina Location for Briggs and Stratton

It alternately makes headway toward that end then loses ground, and it lost much of its trade potential as a result of its economi...

Entrepreneur Personality Characteristics

The origins of the word come fro the French "entreprendre" meaning to undertake (Drucker, 1993). By applying this to a commercial ...

Sweetwater Chocolate Bars and Cookies Marketing Plan

is a quite conservative goal and may be one that we surpass merely by default after launching the most basic of marketing initiati...

At Risk Students and Curricular Reform and Innovations

conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming dist...

Is Diversification a Good Strategy?

add value to the supply chain, from which the firm may benefit (Thompson, 2007). If there are under utilised resources there may a...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Importance of Statistics to the Insurance Industry

or the beneficiary, will receive a payment. For some policies, such as life insurance policies, this is a fixed amount, for other ...

False Assumptions Related To Fear, Happiness And Risk-Taking

of happiness is quite superficial in quality, inasmuch as the individual has based his happiness on tangible commodities rather th...

Factors Affecting Non-Profit Organizations

2009). As a result, at least one-third expected to decrease services, including eliminating programs and laying off staff (Center ...

Monsanto's Global Presence

Analysts at Standard & Poors explain how and why this approach to its business works for Monsanto. It is because Monsantos weathe...

Producing and Value and a Risk Management Report

in order to determine what is required in the report it is necessary to consider the objectives of the report. The objectives, and...

Defense Procurement Risks

The changeover is to be undertaken through the torpedo modular upgrade program, with the delivery of the new heavyweight torpedoes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...