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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Development Risk"”.
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Product development risk management and the role of transparency
Risks in product development lead to schedule and cost over-runs and poor product quality. While numerous risk management frameworks have been published and research on specific risk management practices and methods has been conducted, there is little understanding of what the key characteristics …
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Managing process development risk : aluminum ultrasonic wire bonding for chip-on-board applications
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.
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Tools of risk management in product verification
Product development and innovation involve uncertainty, which inevitably incurs risk. Especially, as product development cycles shorten and resources condense, and as the products themselves grow more complex, managing risk in product developments is increasingly important. In the product …
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Optimal Wildlife Reserve Site Selection with Spatially Correlated Risk
… most economic studies assume the independence of risks that affect wildlife species, leaving the issue of spatially correlated risk largely unexplored. This study contributes to the literature in twoaspects. First, this study incorporates spatially correlated risk, into a reserve site selection …
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A risk-adjusted performance history of public and private market real estate investment, 1978-1997
… efficiency to its investors as measured by risk adjusted total return over the 20 year period from 1978-1997. The initial objective of this thesis was to create a publicly traded real estate equity index(the "Thesis index") for comparison to the existing National Association of Real Estate …
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A survey of the specific life orientation needs of grade 9 learners
… changes experienced in the various domains of development. Risk and opportunity are associated with adolescence and education with regard to dealing with these aspects of adolescent developmental change is critical. Life Skills Education promotes the acquisition of appropriate non-academic …
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The impact of entrepreneurship educations on entrepreneurial capacity and self-employment
… skills of creativity and innovation in the idea development, risk taking proficiency and practical workshop practice were somewhat weak. Therefore, the need for more practical initiative exercises such as extended entrepreneurship teaching in the core courses and across the years of REM …
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Probabilistic Time-to-Event Modeling Approaches for Risk Profiling
… the time of a future event are crucial for risk assessment, across a diverse range of applications, i.e., drug development, risk profiling, and clinical trials, and such data are also relevant in fields like manufacturing (e.g., for equipment monitoring). Existing time-to-event (survival) …
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Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society
… in developing countries have often been used in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability. In reality the profile of women-headed households is diverse; they include, at the least, rich and poor women, aged widows as well as young single mothers and wives of migrant workers, …
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Surface spills at unconventional oil and gas sites: a contaminant transport modeling study for the South Platte alluvial aquifer
… (1) to evaluate whether or not these spills pose risks to groundwater quality in the South Platte aquifer system, (2) to identify the key hydrologic and transport factors that determine these risks, (3) to develop a screening level methodology that could be applied at other sites and for various …
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Iatrogenia e responsabilidade civil no Direito Brasileiro: impactos sobre a responsabilização de médicos e hospitais
O presente trabalho analisa a disciplina da responsabilidade civil de médicos e hospitais no direito brasileiro em razão da iatrogenia. Inicia a análise abordando as variadas dimensões do tratamento de saúde, considerado enquanto direito, enquanto produto e enquanto ofício, tendo como norte as …
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Grasping complexity: analysing risk for sustainable development
Sustainable development relies on our ability to make decisions today that will determine our tomorrow. Given that uncertainty is explicitly allowed to influence our view of what the future holds for us, most ex ante analyses of challenges for sustainable development can be viewed as analysing …
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Three Essays On Conflict, Insecurity, And Livelihoods
… spatially disaggregated measures of conflict risk and uses these to present the first estimates of the relative contributions of insecurity and exposure to violence to the aggregate household costs of conflict. While the dissertation leverages several unique datasets, I show that more widely …
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Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
… that many everyday reckless behaviors reach a developmental peak in adolescence, with adolescents engaging in more reckless behaviors than both children and adults. In contrast, most studies of decision-making across development do not find laboratory risk-taking to peak in adolescence. Here, I …
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A systemic exploration of risks in mobile application development projects and environments
… to develop an understanding of the most common risks encountered during mobile application development projects and identify the interrelationships that exist between these risks to highlight the core risk drivers that negatively impact these projects and outcomes. Research design and …
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Exploring the property development risks in modern South Africa and their impact on property development projects.
Property development in South Africa is inherently capital intensive and risky but has the potential to reward brave developers through high returns. The risks that property developers face is multi-layered and unique to each project, requiring discernment on the part of the developer. However, …
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Academic Life Under Occupation: The Impact on Educationalists at Gaza's Universities
… Roy (1995) rightly indicated a structure of “de-development” in the Gaza Strip (p.110). The findings from this research show that the impact of occupation and of the changes in the Arab World on the educational context in Gaza are more complex than previously thought. There is a simultaneous …