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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Legend Holding Ltd. Audit Risk

of the auditing process are also beneficial in creating a substantial overview for this company. Audit Risk Audit planning in...

Human Cocoa Consumption Benefits and Risks

argued that chocolate consumption causes a physiological response that can improve emotional status. Mental health aside, though,...

At Risk Adolescents and Parental Alcoholism

50% of those who commit sex abuse crimes also abuse alcohol. Suicides: 1. 80% of all adolescent suicides have been reported to b...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

Discounting and Capital Structure

In six pages this paper considers the structuring of an investment through an exploration of such factors as liquidity, term, and ...

Security Risks of Data Warehousing

In eight pages a possible security risk posed by a company's external data warehouse is examined in terms of the business's altern...

Overview of Prospect Theory

In seven pages this paper discusses prospect theory and what it represents in terms of action outcomes and risk factors. Eight sou...

A Financial Analysis of Apple Computer, Inc.

In five pages this paper discusses company profitability through the maximizing of stock prices while minimizing risk and includes...