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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Risk Indicators"”.
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Cardiovascular Risk Indicators Among Adolescents
… adolescent students who are believed to be "at risk" of developing cardiovascular disease in later life. A related purpose was to determine the effectiveness of a health education intervention program (Know Your Body) as a means of modifying or reducing the "at risk" status of the students in …
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At-Risk Indicators: The Impact on School Success.
… a successful outcome. Addressing the at-risk indicators of excessive absences, discipline referrals, socioeconomic status, disability status, early grade retention, and family composition gives insight into struggles students face.</p><p>Looking at 6 research questions, an independent …
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Risk Indicators for Dental Caries in Three Scottish Prison Populations
… characterizing how caries experience and related risk factors vary between prisoner groups. The aims of this thesis were to (1) review the literature reporting caries amongst prisoners, and (2) assess the disease burden and associated risk indicators in a population of Scottish …
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Perinatal risk indicators and developmental abilities : examining children with phonological disorders
… of this study were to determine which perinatal risk variables arecorrelated with phonological disorders and to determine how preschoolers' developmental functioning is related to phonological impairment. Subjects were 101 low SES boys (n=46) and girls (n=55) randomly selected from a county Head …
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Essays on Risk Indicators and Assessment: Theoretical, Empirical, and Engineering Approaches
Risk indicators are metrics that are widely used in risk management to indicate how risky an activity is. Among different types of risk indicators, early warning systems are designed to help decision makers predict and be prepared for catastrophic events. Especially, in complex systems where …
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Cardiovascular Risk Indicators and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women Veterans with PTSD
… analyses of variance to compare cardiovascular risk indicators (resting heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity) and physical and mental health-related quality of life (SF-36) in a sample of women veterans with PTSD to a sample of nonveteran women without PTSD. In …
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Religiousness, current substance use, and early risk indicators for substance abuse and dependence among nursing students.
… prevalence of current substance use and early risk indicators for substance abuse and dependence, and to investigate the relationships among religiousness, current substance use, and early risk indicators among nursing students at seven Seventh-day Adventist colleges. Data for this descriptive …
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A Four Year Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of Adolescent Health Characteristics and Behavioral Risk Indicators (Attitudes)
… tracking the previously classified (1981/82) "at-risk" students.
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CLIMATE RISK AND CMBS LOAN PRICING
This paper examines the impact of climate risk on loan pricing in the CMBS loan market in the US. The study reveals that higher levels of risk are associated with increased credit spreads and decreased loan-to-value ratios. Among climate risk indicators, only Trepp’s high property damage indicators …
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Relationship dependencies and autonomy as mediation pathways of incarceration and HIV risk outcomes among low income drug involved adults
… criminal justice system involvement and HIV risk behavior, few studies have investigated mechanisms of autonomy and relationship dependencies as mediating mechanisms between incarceration history and HIV risk behavioral outcomes. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of …
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Assessing byproduct mining and metal recycling as indicators of material criticality
… and detailed investigation for supply risk indicators is necessary to further understand the risk associated with specific materials. This thesis investigates two aspects related to material criticality: 1) the status of a metal being produced as a byproduct; 2) The market impact of …
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Explainable and Robust Data-Driven Machine Learning Methods for Digital Healthcare Monitoring
… addressed the challenge of assessing fall risk among individuals with varying levels of mobility using inertial sensors. Machine-learning models were developed and evaluated using datasets from stroke survivors and community-dwelling elders with participants of varying levels of mobility. …
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Risk management in the cost planning and control of building projects : the case of the quantity surveying profession in Kenya
This thesis examines financial risk management in the cost planning and cost control of building projects in Kenya. The quantity surveying professional in Kenya is faced with poor access to the recorded cost data needed for preparing final building cost estimates and for budget prediction. This …
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Nontraditional Student Risk Factors and Gender as Predictors for Enrollment in College Distance Education
… and the possession of nontraditional student risk factors predict enrollment in distance education college courses. This dissertation used data from the most recent National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), which consisted of approximately 95,000 undergraduate students who were …
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Accumulation Of Subcortical Iron As A Modifier Of Volumetric And Cognitive Decline In Healthy Aging: Two Longitudinal Studies
… and volume, and the effects of cardiovascular risk factors as modifiers of change trajectories. Iron significantly increased (T2* decreased) over time in the basal ganglia, but not in the hippocampus. Accumulation of iron accounted for shrinkage in the striatum. Elevated metabolic syndrome risk …
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The effects of municipal by-laws and the survival strategies of street vendors in Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe
… national and local level should identify major risk indicators associated with the proliferation of street vending, formulate long-term policies aimed at addressing the macro-factors behind the proliferation of street vending, come up with appropriate response mechanism strategies to deal with …
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Crowdsourcing corporate water data : a validity test of a pilot survey instrument to map public water management related risk worldwide
… (Koelbel et al. 2018). Information on water risk that does exist does not cover public water management at a granularity that would be useful to industrial facilities and local utilities. Even at a national or state-level, datasets on water risk are woefully incomplete. Given these gaps, the …
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The role of intervention in strategic change
… the thesis is that of assessing the current risk, and the likely tendency that such risk will increase or decrease in the future, that the project will be completed according to claims made by the contractor in his Bid to the customer. An analysis of data from four actual projects together …
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Trading foreign exchange carry portfolios
… foresight to select the correct market-timing indicators. We thus advocate a broad diversification of risk indicators for carry trade timing.
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Essays in financial economics
… we perform an empirical comparison of systemic risk measures. In a recent survey paper, Bisias et al. (2012) provide a summary of 31 proposed measures for systemic risk in the financial system. In this paper we examine a subset of these measures to determine their time series properties before, …
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