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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Managing risk"”.
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Managing risk in premium fruit and vegetable supply chains
Production planning in premium fresh produce supply chains is challenging due to the uncertainty of both supply and demand. A two-stage planning algorithm using mixed integer linear programming and Monte Carlo simulation is developed for production planning in the case of a premium branded tomato. …
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Tools and Techniques for Managing Risk for Virginia Grain and Oilseed Producers
… concerns in the area of pricing plans and price risk management are of interest to researchers and extension educators. A survey of Virginia grain and soybean producers explores pricing behavior, adoption of written pricing plans, attitudes towards risk management and risk management tools, and …
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A test of the expanded AIDS risk reduction model managing risk to me, risk to you and risk to us
… when they believe their partners are at risk for contracting HIV. Relationship preservation results illustrated that when people fear of losing their relationship they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep the relationship going, even at the cost of contracting HIV. By extending the …
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Managing risk; how doctors, nurses and pharmacists optimise the use of medicines in acute hospitals in Northern Ireland: a grounded theory study.
… Strauss and Corbin (1998). The core category was managing risk. Participants had an implicit understanding of the need to continually manage risk when working with the complex and the routine. They used personal and systemic checks and balances which could be viewed either as duplication of effort …
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'Luring the infant into life' : exploring infant mortality and infant-feeding in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
… groups and pictures. Drawing on concepts of managing risk, this dissertation demonstrates that in a world where life is precarious due to illnesses, poverty and other social ills that reflect the political economy of the different spaces, child care is about sustaining the life of an infant. …
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The syndication of low-income housing tax credits
… gaps, providing diversification, and managing risk for investors. In exchange for these and other services, investors pay syndicators a load, which covers fees and expenses. Boston Financial, one of the nation's largest syndicators, has provided information and data for this study. As …
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Risk in agriculture : a study of crop yield distributions and crop insurance
Agriculture is a business fraught with risk. Crop production depends on climatic, geographical, biological, political, and economic factors, which introduce risks that are quantifiable given the appropriate mathematical and statistical methodologies. Accurate information about the nature of …
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Love letters to services past: risk and outdoor education in youth work
… growing public aversion to, and avoidance of, risk, ironically puts young people further in harm’s way, as they lack the experience of successfully managing risk for themselves. Young people also face more significant, ‘real’ risks from the consequential inactive lifestyles and the attendant …
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Love me long time: safety and risk in heterocoupledom at adolescence.
… Boyfriends as gendered subjects of safety and risk. The gendering of safety and risk operates to position Girlfriends as risk navigators who make pre-emptive and response-able moves. Safety and risk are regarded as disciplinary techniques that regulate Girlfriends’ performances in relation to …
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Tools of risk management in product verification
… 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 development process, product …
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Applications of robust optimal control to decision making in the presence of uncertainty
… the development of robust control policies for managing risk, using non-linear robust optimal control techniques to provide clear evidence of superior performance of robust models when compared with existing VAR and EVT approaches to risk management. The novelty in the approach arises from the …
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A new approach to risk analysis with a focus on organizational risk factors
… socio-technical systems requires an approach to risk management that continuously monitors risk and identifies potential areas of concern before they lead to hazards, and constrains hazards before they lead to accidents. This research introduces the concept of continuous participative risk …
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Teaching a Primary Prevention Falls Program: Using the Stop Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) Toolkit
… Practice Nurses to be proficient in falls risk assessment and prevention using STEADI. The educational program took place in two different settings and consisted of a PowerPoint presentation, case studies, and creation of a falls simulation. <strong><em>Measures: </em></strong>Metrics …
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Developing risk management framework for wellhead and christmas tree equipment
… increased cost, poor quality, lose time, and risk for lost time injury (LTI). To remain competitive in global marketplace the manufacturing wellhead and christmas tree equipment companies need to implement of risk management process, to analysis potential risk and failure. This thesis …
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Barriers to growth in the US real estate derivatives market
… investment strategies (i.e. speculating) and managing risk (i.e. hedging). This has resulted in significant interest in the development of commercial property derivatives by key players in all sectors. A number of barriers (e.g., indices, pricing, education, fund mandates, tax and accounting …
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An Interpretive Exploration of the Experiences of Mothers with Obesity and Midwives Who Care for the Obese Mother during Childbearing.
… as a BMI ≥ 30 (kg/m2) had been established as a risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality during childbearing. There was a need for empirical research to explore the experiences of obese women and midwives during childbearing to stimulate debate and inform the delivery of care to this …
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Creating safer ‘unsafe’ spaces: an augmented care ethics approach to recontextualise risk management for audience handling by production staff in immersive theatre
… the ethical and practical challenges of audience risk management in immersive theatre from the perspective of stage and front-of-house managers. It examines how production staff can establish safer environments for audiences without compromising artistic integrity, integrating care ethics into …
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Records management and the accountability of governance
… does not and cannot do it for them. The need for managing risk and audit culture is imperative to balance and satisfy the expectation of citizen and stakeholders. The accountability of a government can arguably only be achieved when it demonstrates considerable transparency, which in turn can only …
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Histories That Bind: Doctrinal Productivity and Legal Governance in Canadian Aboriginal Law
… the resolution of this, however, were just as risk-laden as the bind itself. The jurisprudence presented as offering a new justice was thus also oriented toward managing risk. Two concepts that help conceptualize how that doctrinal productivity has allowed the juridical field to manage risk and …
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An empirical analysis of manufacturing re-shoring and supply chain risk
… increased the company's exposure to supply chain risks. For example, lean manufacturing means lower inventory levels, and a high risk incident can cause a major disruption in operations. Similarly, as outsourcing and offshoring operations grow, supply chains become geographically dispersed and …
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