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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Risk awareness"”.
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Enhancing security risk awareness in end-users via affective feedback
Background: Risky security behaviour displayed by end-users has the potential to leave devices vulnerable to compromise, despite the availability of security tools designed to aid users in defending themselves against potential online threats. This indicates a need to modify the behaviour of …
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Illness Perception and Cardiovascular Risk Awareness in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
… Currently, there is a global push to broaden the awareness of the risk for CVD in the DM population and this study is no exception. Illness perception (IP) has been shown to affect positive healthcare behaviors in people with T2DM however the relationship between IP and CVD risk awareness (CVD-RA) …
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Development and Implementation of a Patient Education Tool to Increase Fall Risk Awareness
… 45-bed cardiac floor where patients are at high risk for falls due to diagnosis, medications, and treatment. Development and implementation of a patient education tool was conducted through an assessment of the microsystem and evaluation of the patient education tool. The foundation for this …
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Assessment of the risk awareness for mobile banking users in Tanzania, a case of CRDB Mbagala branch Temeke Municipality Dar Es Salaam
… their efforts may not bring much result if the risks affecting implementation of mobile banking services are not established. This study was used qualitative research methodology and exploratory as research design. The sample size was selected from population by using random sampling technique, …
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Decreasing Fall Risk in Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
… thesis project was created to help promote fall risk awareness in older adults who are living in the community with a serious mental illness. This project consisted of a 3-part multifactorial intervention plan that focused on increasing fall risk awareness and promoting participation in healthy …
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Depressive Symptoms in Women Being Screened for Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… Depressive symptomology is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Over 15% of persons with cardiovascular disease have depressive symptoms, and women are twice as likely to experience these symptoms as men. Depressive symptoms in women “ at risk ” for …
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Keeping Safe: Field Public Health Nurses' Perceptions
… nurses. This process had three stages, (a) risk awareness, (b) risk estimation, and (c) risk limitation. Public health nurses maintained risk awareness through vigilance. Universally, the nurses in this study were vigilant regarding idle young men, dogs, suspicious and threatening behavior, …
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Um estudo da aplicação do conceito de risco na conscientização e conhecimento de estudantes de ensino técnico sobre riscos de segurança e saúde ocupacional em laboratório de soldagem
… presents a discussion on the level of risk awareness of students who have welding practice in the laboratories at CEFET/PI, both in Teresina and Floriano. Its main goal is to investigate risk factors involving students, teachers and employees that work in these laboratories. It s an …
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Práce s rizikem v pobytových zařízeních sociálních služeb
The diploma thesis focuses on the term risk in human life in general, as it is seen in the society and defined by current knowledge in the field of social science. Furthermore, the thesis explores the risk as a phenomenon connected to the social services. The social integration of disadvantaged …
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Attentional Control in Young Drivers: Does Training Help or Hinder Bottom-Up Processing in a Dynamic Driving Environment?
… of an existing driving training program, Risk Awareness Perception Training (RAPT), on increasing latent hazard anticipation on the road persisted with extraneous bottom-up stimuli in the road environment. Forty-one young drivers, aged 18-21, completed a series of driving scenarios with …
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External risk monitoring and inventory sizing in supply chain disruption mitigation
… in an environment of ever-present external risks such as factory fires, geopolitical disruptions and natural disasters. Such risks might manifest as disruptions which could jeopardize the health of those who depend upon AstraZeneca's life-saving medicines. Accordingly, there is a need to …
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Analysis of the Effects of Georgia House Bill 1113 (2008): A Case Study of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Department of Internal Auditing
… they’ve not only successfully installed a fraud risk awareness and mitigation program within their audit function, but they have become a standard by which other higher education auditing departments are measured.</p>
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… how people and places adapt to environmental risks and the implications for urban policy and infrastructure planning. Chapter 1 examines how the financing structure of climate resilience infrastructure impacts long-term economic dynamics. Using satellite imagery to develop new performance …
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Enhancing Community Risk Preparedness for Flooding Emergencies: A System Dynamics Approach for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
… for flood emergencies through improved risk communication strategies. Focusing on the New England District as a representative case, it integrates data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Household Survey and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims …
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Covid-19 in the Developing World: Managing One of The Gambia's Most Fatal Public Health Crisis
… by limited resources, inconsistent public health risk awareness strategies that were rarely adhered to and poor government leadership. Examining how the state navigated its public health response identifies gaps between government policy and implementation, thereby, affirming the main hypothesis. …
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Assessing the role of human behaviors in the management of extreme hydrological events: an agent-based modeling approach
… evaluates how social interactions affect flood risk awareness and evacuation processes. The case of drought events considers a hypothetical agricultural water market based on double auction. Farmers’ multiple behaviors (irrigation and bidding behaviors) are modeled in an ABM framework. The …
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Improving Project Management With Simulation And Completion Distributi
… conducting quantitative project completion-time risk assessments. The methodology enables project stakeholders to visualize uncertainty or risk, i.e. the likelihood of their project completing late and the magnitude of the lateness, by providing them with a completion time distribution function …
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Media Representations and Public Attitudes towards Nanotechnology in Taiwan
… little evidence that the public understands the risks associated with Nano. This lackluster public and media-related risk awareness regarding Nano is exacerbated by a weak connection between the public and scientists. Nano has become a vital component of future science and technology development …
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Needling doubts: A sociological examination of parental resistance to childhood immunizations
… socioeconomic status, and mistrust and risk beliefs on parental questioning and refusal of vaccination are presented.</p><p>In addition, I provide an explanatory framework for vaccine questioning within the theoretical orientation of risk theories of modernity. I develop and test a …
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Towards a model for successful enterprises centred on entrepreneurs exogenous and endogenous attributes: Case of Vhembe District, South Africa
… variance followed by Self-belief (SB:15.802), Risk Awareness (RA:6.144), Resilience (R: 4.532), and Nonconformist (NC:4.271). The MLR employed to investigate the linear relationship of the parameters revealed that BN (𝛽1 = 7.57) is most influential and statistically significant (p=0.01). Except …
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