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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Exposure to risk"”.
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Exposure to risk and its impact on human capital : essays on combat exposure, military labor, and conflict duration
… retention bonuses and mortality risks observed in the U.S. Army during the war on terror to estimate the rate at which volunteers for active military service are willing to trade wealth and risk of death when making reenlistment decisions. Our estimate of the Value of Statistical …
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Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance on CEO risk taking. Furthermore, the strong governance mitigates excess …
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Overcoming financial exclusion: Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) and the balancing of financial and social objectives
… vehicle for the supply of debt finance to financially excluded enterprises. CDFIs are part of a broader approach to addressing financial exclusion that is experienced by commercial and social enterprises in the US and UK. The thesis explores US and UK CDFI lending processes to develop an …
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Emotion Management Skills of School-Age Children in the Context of Risk: The Role of Parent Socialization Strategies
<p>Exposure to risk in childhood can disrupt social and emotional processes (Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000) and lead to the development of physical and mental health issues across the lifespan (Flouri, 2008). This study sought to better understand the associations between contextual risk, parent …
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Peruvian Food Insecurity in The Face of Recurrent Natural Disasters: A Two-Step Adoption Analysis for Improved Potato Varieties
The International Potato Center (CIP) and Peruvian National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) have invested a substantial amount of resources towards the development of improved potato varieties in Peru. These varieties are adaptable to the agro-ecologies of the Andes and have specific biotic …
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Estimating Pedestrian Crashes at Urban Signalized Intersections
Crash prediction models are used to estimate the number of crashes using a set of explanatory variables. The highway safety community has used modeling techniques to predict vehicle-to-vehicle crashes for decades. Specifically, generalized linear models (GLMs) are commonly used because they can …
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Power, inequality and social justice
… creates a coherent and original contribution to the synthesis of evidence and new methods in the field of participation and reducing inequalities. The work will present a range of different research methodologies and demonstrate the application of these methods to explore the role of power and …
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Aviation risk management
Risk management is considered to be an application of general concepts in scientific management of a particular problem of exposure to risk of loss. It is concerned with identifying objectives, analysing the data regarding the nature of the problem, evaluating the pure risks deriving from the …
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The Examination of Protective Factors between Corporal Punishment and Adolescent Aggression
… The development of aggression from childhood to adulthood is well-researched, and extant work has identified a large number of developmental risk factors within the individual, family, and social domains. Among them, poor parenting, including harsh practices like corporal punishment, have …
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Periostin-like-factor in tissue repair and remodeling
Perisotin-like-factor (PLF) is a member of the Fasciclin family of proteins, which are characterized by the presence of 150 amino acid long conserved Fasciclin domains. Members of this family have been implicated in numerous cellular processes like adhesion, migration, axonal guidance and growth …
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A computing task ergonomic risk assessment tool for assessing risk factors of work related musculoskeletal disorders
Observation method remains to be the most widely applied method in assessing exposure to risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) related to office works because it is inexpensive and applicable to wide range of office jobs. However, the existing research that applied this …
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The psychology of physical risk taking behaviour
This study investigates the psychology of risk taking, and in particular the personality profiles associated with different physical risk taking behaviours. It was hypothesised that there may be three fundamental approaches to risk: 'Risk avoiders' avoid activities they perceive to contain risk, …
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EARLY-LIFE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR OF JUVENILE NORTHERN CRAYFISH (FAXONIUS VIRILIS)
… chemical cues, such as conspecific alarm cues, to assess predation risk and guide antipredator responses. Early exposure to risk-related cues can influence the development of antipredator strategies, including generalized responses to novelty (neophobia) and the ability to learn predator …
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Road traffic crash fatalities: An examination of national fatality rates and factors associated with the variation in fatality rates between nations with reference to the World Health Organisation Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 - 2020
… at the national level within the decade to halt or reduce the national RTC fatality toll. This thesis demonstrates that the some of the baseline data published by the WHO and derived from RTC reports compiled by national police forces may not best reflect the number of RTC deaths within …
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Examining Latent Classes And Latent Transition Statuses In A Longitudinal Bahamian Sample
… psychological, and social domains leading to greater vulnerability for poor decision making. As a result, adolescence is a period of increased risk taking behaviors. Prevention of risk behaviors would benefit from early intervention prior to the onset of these risk behaviors. Unfortunately, …
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Injury Risk of Road Departure Crashes using Modeling and Reconstruction Methods
… for roughly 46% of these fatalities. Efforts to reduce to injury risk and risk exposure in these crashes have been hampered by the difficulty in performing reconstructions. To address the need for accurate reconstructions in order to assess injury risk, a vehicle-specific stiffness database …
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Parental Caregiving Capacity and Reading, Math, and Working Memory Development During Elementary School
… are concerned with young children’s widespread exposure to risk factors and the associated consequences. Sensitive and responsive parents can buffer children from the negative effects of adversity. This dissertation focuses on two specific experiences that may undermine parental resilience and …
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Staple Crop Diversity and Risk Mitigation - Potatoes in Bolivia
… In the most remote areas, sometimes referred to as the "less favored areas" (LFAs), the economic importance of agriculture is paramount. An important obstacle to development in these areas is that agriculture is at the mercy of nature, which may not be particularly friendly. These areas have …
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Santa Barbara Tea Fire Multi-Hazard Mitigation Benefit Cost Analysis
… California which reduced four properties’ exposure to multiple hazards. The results indicate that the estimated overall benefit-cost ratio for property acquisition mitigation projects is 1.75:1 when the exposed properties meet a threshold of eminent threat for total loss. This study further …
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Assessing the Effects of Exoskeletons on Physical Demands, Trip and Slip Risks, and User Perceptions in Manual Mining Tasks
… major health concern worldwide in the mining sector and are associated with frequent exposure to risk factors prevalent in manual mining tasks. Occupational exoskeletons (EXOs) are a promising ergonomic intervention to mitigate WMSD risk, by reducing physical demands and improving work …
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