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Lenovo and IBM

2005). Net income for 2004 totaled (in mil.) $135.0, which was a modest 3.5 percent growth (Meyer, 2005). It seems fitting that ...

HIV/AIDS Education Impact and Adult Populations' Condom Use

heterosexual sexual contact, including sexual behaviors with IV drug users and others who have contracted the virus through sexual...

Late Onset Alzheimer's Development Risks and APOE

but questions still remain regarding the accuracy of the argument that the presence of APOE is a substantial predictor for late-on...

Hospital Obstetrics and Risk Management

in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...

Wal-Mart's Debt Financing and Capital Structure

billion (USD) U.S. program, which offered oustandings of more than $2 billion each year (Anonymous, 2002). During the earl...

Final Analysis in Hydrogen Car Country Selection

so, street and highway infrastructure is well developed and can handle much more automobile traffic than it currently is required ...

Duration, NPV, Mark to Market and Asset Liability Management Models of Risk Assessment

areas such as futures valuing but where there is a match between assets and liabilities there maybe better tools that can be used ...

'Numbers' of Pregnancy

after fertilization, the conceptus becomes a group of about 16 to 20 cells, which is than called a "morula, which means "ball of c...

Gangs and At-Risk Youths A Comparative Attitudes Study

Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...

Three Questions on Behavioral Finance

is made. Mayes cites 6 reasons that may impact on a rational judgment, these are overconfidence, fear of regret, cognitive dissona...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Questioins Answered Regarding Bank Risk

increase, the Federal Reserve base rates had increased during this time by 1.25% which had a knock on effect as the bank raised it...

Information Technology Policy Development

transactions, worth more than $1 trillion, in the 12 months ended March 30, the first time it has passed the $1 trillion mark in a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Information on Investment

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

Teenage Pregnant Risk Factors

This research paper pertains to the risk factors that are associated with the pregnancy rate for teenage girls. Three pages in len...

One Corporate Health Program for Employees

Improving the health of employees is a valuable endeavor because the healthier they are the more productive they are. Johnson & Jo...