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PDVSA Case

an assumption of $12.87 per barrel for sync crude and $18.62 for Maya crude. There is already a predicted price drop, with analyst...

Maintaining Objectivity in Program Evaluation

with evaluating the program. While it is better to leave program evaluation in the hands of outsiders that are not affected...

Influences on the Price of Bonds

able o repay the bond. This is a risk to all investors, and the level of the risk may be assessed by looking at the creditworthine...

Vapor Intrusion and Wet Scrubbing

from escaping a coal stack and polluting the air (Bishop, 2010). The chemical equation for this process is:...

Organizational Audit Planning

and can not arbitrarily accept any offer they receive from an organization. Instead, auditors must conduct careful analyses in ord...

Leadership and At-Risk Learners

story. Jim was generally unable to recognize letters and could not answer questions about plot, characterizations or predicting t...

Views of a Population At Risk

women are more likely to die from lung cancer as a result of cigarette smoking than white women who develop lung cancer, primarily...

The State of the US Economy May 2011

the index falling from 66.0 in April, made up of a 40.2 for the current conditions and 83.2 for future expectations to an overall ...

Managing Risk with the ATOM Process

ability to accept non-cash payments for goods and services. Today, Bankcard Services is one of the 92 largest owners of merchant c...

Article Review: Coffee and Diabetes Risk

to reduce the likelihood of diabetes to some extent. Moreover, caffeine, often thought of as a harmful chemical, may well be the m...

Steroids

and Nandrolone" (Freudenrich, 2006). They can be taken as pills or injected, depending on the users preference (Freudenrich, 2006)...

Effects of Second Hand Smoke

experts are saying without relying on either side in this debate. To define the terms, its simplest to use Google. Typing in this...

Overview of Risk Based Auditing

Selim, 1999). Risk based auditing is therefore an extension to the risk assessment tools and techniques a compnay uses, carried ...

Supply Chain Risk Management via Intelligent Agents

efficacy. For instance, through the use of embedded RFID chips, supply chain management can be handled in a much more straightforw...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Recommending Investment Class Choices

30 day account, but this would only be suitable of the family believe that they would have sufficient notice of potential unemploy...

Re-engineering at MEG International

is able to use this as a core element of the strategy that is delivered. Reengineering is a major change to the way in which pro...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

The Receipt of Kickbacks in IT Outsourcing

discipline of study, and there are just as many differing perspectives about the most ethical way to run a business as there are p...

A Comparative Overview of Security Risk Analysis and Planning

into the digital realm and other new frontiers, the importance of security management and analysis becomes all the more apparent. ...

Diagnosing a Stroke

The general symptoms of strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, and transient ischemic attack will have a sudden onset (Caplan, 20...

Potential Supply Chain Management Risks for Two Retail Organizations

The risks associated with procurement start with increases to the price of the inputs that are purchased which have not been expec...

Risk Management in the Case of Infant Abduction

lost revenue, and a need to internally overhaul security procedures. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, there were only a total of 104 ...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Silent and Shadow Accounts and Tesco

still an internal publication and may suffer from the same bias. It shadow accounts have the potential of addressing the asymmetry...

Pets as Therapy

There is no question that animals offer unconditional love and support, which is what most people desperately need when living out...

Debate on Gun Control

statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other w...

Animal Feeding Operations

Very few independent farms product meat and crops today. Instead, there are huge corporations that are involved in these activitie...

Harmonizing People, Assets, and Processes

Operational Integrity is the merging of People, Process and Assets into a well-defined, highly efficient and proactive organizatio...