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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Individual risk"”.
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Individual risk and reward in the wild. A study on blue tits
Behavioural biologists seek to understand why individuals of the same species differ in their behaviour. The "pace-of-life syndrome" (POLS) hypothesis offers a framework to explain such individual behavioural variation. It puts forth that individuals differ broadly in how they take risks in their …
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Prevalence and individual risk factors associated with non-specific low back pain among secondary school adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe
… in an attempt to identify the associated risk factors. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence (lifetime and point) and the one-year prevalence of recurrent NSLBP. In addition, the study aimed at identifying the individual risk factors associated with the report of recurrent …
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Evaluating and enhancing cardiovascular disease risk prediction with algorithmic fairness
… cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with risk prediction models in widespread clinical use. Yet much remains unknown about the performance of CVD risk prediction models in specific subgroups, and disparities in predictions can exacerbate health inequities. Algorithmic fairness, a research …
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The epidemiology of anaplasmosis: Geographic and risk factor analyses for Illinois cattle and white-tailed deer
… sources were combined to examine spatial and individual risk factors for anaplasmosis, an economically significant, blood-borne infection of ruminants. A survey of 220 Illinois veterinarians identified a significantly clustered pattern of infection (p $<$.05) with two endemic clusters; in …
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Credibility theory and experience rating in general insurance
… upon charging the correct premium for the individual risk underwritten. When a new contract is signed, the insurer may know very little about the individual characteristics of the risk he has insured, and the premium charged is based upon prior statistics gathered from a large collective of …
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The development of entire body risk asssessment (ENBORA) method for work related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs)
… available only focus on assessing physical risk factors especially in terms ofthe diversity of body postures which do not encompass other factors of WMSDs including psychosocial risk factors, work organisational risk factors and individual risk factors. In addition, some of the existing …
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The use of ultrasound in the prediction of endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding
… 0.77). Mathematical models for evaluation of the individual risk of endometrial malignancy were constructed using clinical data, sonographic endometrial thickness, grey-scale ultrasound morphology of the endometrium, and power Doppler ultrasound findings. The model with the largest AUC (0.91) and …
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Die effek van inoefening op enkele koronêre risikofaktore en hulle onderlinge verwantskap by Suid-Afrikaanse bestuurslui
Research has indicated that coronary risk factors are interrelated in a complex manner. The purpose of this study was firstly, to determine if physical activity can influence the atherogenity of the individual risk factors by changing the relationship that exists between the coronary risk factors, …
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Essays in Banking and Systemic Risk
… of three papers on banking and systemic risk. The first chapter develops a multi-objective optimization framework for banks’ securities portfolios, considering both individual and systemic risk. The findings show that while diversification can reduce individual risk, including systemic …
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The Effects of Diabetic Foot Care Education on Assessments and Behaviors among Adults with Diabetes Mellitus Experiencing Homelessness
… mellitus experiencing homelessness are at risk for preventable diabetic foot complications, including diabetic foot ulcers and non-traumatic lower extremity amputation. Several risk factors such as the lack of routine healthcare, insurance, nutritious meals, and access to diabetic foot …
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Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings
… their prevalence, types, patterns, and individual risk factors. However, we still lack a fundamental understanding of the processes that shape its incidence and spatial distribution. Our failure to tap into these dynamics is rooted in our inability to escape the dominant paradigm in …
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RISK COMPLEX : preparing the body for new hardware
… the explicit of wealth and implicit creation of risks. Each transaction inhere es both wealth and risk within the system. In 1986 Utrich Beck explanation for this emerging post modern condition. His work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, sketches the outlines of a society the management and …
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Location, Location, Location: Assessing the Role of Context in Moderating the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Burden
… the life course. While literature has focused on individual risk factors for ACEs and their burden on health, there are social and physical environmental contextual factors outside the individual that have been overlooked in studies of childhood adversity. This dissertation sought to understand …
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The Impact of Risk Propensity on Corporate Entrepreneurship
… done in the fields of Entrepreneurship and Risk Taking. There is, however, very little literature regarding the relationship between Risk Taking and Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE). This study attempts to understand that relationship whilst exploring the impact of Risk Propensity on …
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Clinical and Morphological Features of Periodontium in the Aesthetic Zone of the Maxilla /// Клинико-морфологични особености на пародонта в естетичния участък на горната челюст
… which are crucial for assessing the aesthetic risk and the healing result of the regenerative and implant surgical treatment and for the prosthetic treatment. We assessed the clinical and morphological features of periodontium in the aesthetic zone of maxilla and a thorough analysis and …
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Understanding burnout and mental well-being in healthcare staff
… project is a systematic review focusing on the risk and protective factors associated with burnout, for staff working within palliative care. A combination of occupation and individual determinates were identified. Occupational risk factors included work environment, working pattern (e.g. …
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Reframing Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Through a Maternal and Child Health Lens: Implications for Integrated Prevention, Policy, and Practice
… United States, with significant consequences for individual health, family stability, and population well-being. Although these forms of violence are frequently addressed through criminal justice and behavioral health frameworks, less attention has been given to their implications within maternal …
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Sybil: Predicting Future Lung Cancer Risk From a Single Low-Dose Chest Computed Tomography
… Tools that provide personalized future cancer risk assessment could focus approaches toward those most likely to benefit. We hypothesize that a deep learning model assessing the entire volumetric LDCT data could be built to predict individual risk without requiring additional demographic or …
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Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering
Two Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) methods are presented which can be used to quantify the risk to occupants in, for example, a building in which a fire has broken out. The extended QRA considers the inherent uncertainty in the variables explicitly. The standard QRA does not consider the …
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