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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Risk Theory"”.
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Hooked on the Internet: the prevalence, risk, theory and presenting problem of Internet addiction
… applications in contributing to an elevated risk of Internet addiction in two independent samples of 3,105 adolescents in the Netherlands and 2,257 university students in the UK, (ii) the development and testing of the concise Internet addiction components model using the quantitative data …
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The applicability of statistical techniques to credit portfolios with specific reference to the use of risk theory in banking
… management, with emphasis on actuarial and risk theoretic pricing and reserving measures. The bank corporate loan portfolio is envisaged as an insurance collective, with margins charged for credit risk forming premium income, provisions made forming claims outgo, and variation over time in …
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Advanced approaches to ruin probability and novel extensions of Hoeffding Inequalities in insurance mathematics
In the ever-evolving domain of risk theory, understanding the intricate relationships between ruin probability, risk management, and the complexities of financial mathematics has never been more imperative. This thesis provides a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of ruin probability and …
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Cross-Hedging Bison with Live Cattle Futures
… for a drop in the value of bison makes price risk an important factor for producers. Following price risk theory, hedging opportunities for bison producers are investigated using the live cattle futures contract. For the time periods researched, there is no clear evidence that cross-hedging …
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Understanding social amplification of risk : possible impact of an avian flu pandemic
… This work introduces social amplification of risk theory to evaluate the potential impact of a pandemic to a business due to heightened fear. It uses a case study of Genzyme Corporation and evaluates pandemic related risks to two of its major products. By applying a system dynamics framework …
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Risk and robust optimization
… develops and explores the connections between risk theory and robust optimization. Specifically, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between a class of risk measures known as coherent risk measures and uncertainty sets in robust optimization. An important consequence of this is …
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Doctors' perspective on obstetric ultrasound: concept, knowledge and practice
… govemmentality and self-surveillance through risk theory, by the philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-84), as his ideas have been central to this research question. The conclusion reached is that, although making changes to doctors’ in house training may increase their knowledge of obstetric …
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A fundamental approach for providing service-level guarantees for wide-area networks
… TeaVaR (Traffic Engineering Applying Value at Risk), which draws on financial risk theory to realize a risk management approach to traffic engineering (TE). I leverage empirical data to generate a probabilistic model of network failures, and formulate a Linear Program (LP) that maximizes …
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Predictive reliabilities for electronic components
… the case of multiple mechanisms. Extreme·value theory and competing risk theory are applied to analyze the simultaneous effects of multiple mechanisms. lt is shown that the aggregate failure time distribution has a Weibull form for both the theories. The model explains the influence of physical …
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DECISION FACTORS FOR THE ADOPTION OF E-FINANCE AND OTHER E-COMMERCE ACTIVITIES
… to consumer behavior. Refining from Perceived Risk Theory and existing studies, specific risk facets, consumer characteristics and system characteristics were operationalized and integrated within the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) resulting in a proposed e-finance and other e-commerce …
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Agent-based models of socio-hydrological systems for exploring the institutional dynamics of water resources conflict
The Basins-At-Risk theory formulates relations between institutional capacity in a basin and the level of water conflict in that basin, suggesting that higher levels of institutional capacity will lead to reduced levels of water conflict in a given system. I test the substance of this theory using …
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PRISM: a consumer information processing model for housewife decision-making
… that the relationship between perceived risk and openness to information was not supported because of the low risk in the present studies and that relationships concerning usage strategies were not identified because it was not possible to group individual strategies. In the light of the …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
… anthropology, this dissertation brings together risk theory, the anthropology of ethics and morality, STS and anthropological understandings of medical technologies, disability studies, and feminist theory and research on gender and caretaking. This text brings to light how patients and …
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Risk management in reinsurance
Interest in risk management has increased in recent years. many studies concerning risk and insurance theory have appeared. These have been aimed at defining the risks and finding the most suitable methods to control them and their effects as well as minimizing the costs. The interest of the …
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Adaptable lives: agency and accountability in a cancer cluster town
… theoretical approach to analysis informed by risk theory, I discovered that community-level responses to risk echo national logics that promote the concepts of deterrence and avoidance of harm as matters of individual preventive choice. Within a cultural context where efforts towards …
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The values underpinning Iceland's food system risk : implications for resilience planning
… to do so assumes a universalistic framework for risk and resilience -- a trend currently seen in the global proliferation of formulaic, resiliency plans. Ecological resilience is defined as the ability of a system to absorb disturbance so as to retain essentially the same function. In a …
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Losing our lakes: an assessment of the human dimensions of lakeshore landowner shoreland management
… of intention (R2 = .36). Secondly, I used the Theory of Normative Social Behavior (TNSB) (Rimal and Real, 2005) as an alternate model and compared the results with the IM (Fishbein & Yzer 2003). My findings indicated that the IM (R2 = .241) had a greater explanation of variance, when compared …
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Online banking adoption among academicians at MTUN Universities in Malaysia
… Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Perceived Risk Theory (PRT) in understanding the adoption of online banking services in Malaysia. Therefore, this study intended to determine the factors influencing the adoption of online banking based on TAM (Perceived Usefulness, PU; Perceived Ease of Use, …
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Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management
… close stocks but that their underwriting risk drives their portfolio tilt away from these stocks. Therefore, the property-liability insurers’ negative industry bias is driven by hedging in spite of information advantages. In the second essay, we investigate the betting-against-beta …
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An experimental inquiry into the effects of the amount of information, attributed source of the information and situational context on perceived risk in the selection of an attorney
… source of the information and perceived risk in a professional service setting. Perceived risk theory, the dichotomy of goods and services, and factors unique to professional services are discussed relevant to consumer choice. Hypotheses stemming from the literature are offered relating …
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