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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Risk profiles"”.
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Financial costs and benefits of sourcing from factories with different risk profiles
… increasing social, political and environmental risk, particularly in the emerging markets. Suppliers, supply chain intermediaries, global brands and buyers are all affected. In such an environment, there is a strong case for understanding the costs and benefits of working with factories with …
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Do FinTech Acquisitions Improve the Operating Performance or Risk Profiles of Acquiring Firms?
… of improved firm performance or declines in firm risk. I employ three different methodologies to examine the relation between FinTech acquisitions and their impact on the acquiring firm performance and risk: the change model, the intercept methodology, and difference in differences methodology. …
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Investor risk profiling: an enhanced behavioral finance perspective and technique for identifying client risk profiles
… and advisors. This process, assessed through a risk profiling questionnaire, carries an opportunity to choose the optimal financial product based on the risk tolerance of the investor and thereafter retain the clients and help their investments grow. In this paper, we argue that the traditional …
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Development and Validation of a Diagnostic Model - The Hypertension Population Risk Tool (HTNPoRT) - to Predict Hypertension and Describe Risk Profiles: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study of Canadians
… planning. Methods: The Hypertension Population Risk Tool (HTNPoRT) was derived from 19,643 adult respondents in the Canadian Health Measures Survey. Sex-specific logistic regression models predicting hypertension presence were developed using 16 predictors: 4 sociodemographics, 3 psychosocial …
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The effect of inositol-hexakisphosphate (phytate) on urinary risk factors for calcium oxalate urolithiasis in South African population groups with different kidney stone risk profiles : theoretical modelling, in vitro crystallisation experiments and in vivo human studies
… assay; biochemical and physiochemical urinary risk factors were measured. The black group had a significantly higher baseline intake of phytate culminating in a significantly higher urinary phytate excretion. No significant difference in urinary crystallisation kinetics was observed as being …
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Life Stress and Risk for Major Depression: A Latent Profile Analysis
… major life stress may be able to distinguish risk for recurrent versus non-recurrent depression at first episode onset. Objectives were to use Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to uncover profiles of risk in currently depressed individuals and determine whether major life stress prior to episode …
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Childhood Risk and Resilience Profiles and Their Longitudinal Associations with Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Symptom Profiles
… among child-, parent-, and family-level risk and resilience factors during childhood that may be associated with internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence. To address this gap, the current study utilized a person-centered approach to identify profiles of risk and resilience …
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Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks
… a declared emergency happens. We use a set of risk profiles over the future costs to align the investment with the financials and preferences of the organization. This research shows how the risk profiles of the decision maker shape the location and distribution of backup stock in a retail …
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Modelling mortality heterogeneity using health trajectories and multimorbidity
… is a generally well understood area of longevity risk that remains relatively unexplored in the actuarial pricing of longevity linked products. However, with increasing amounts of longitudinal individual level data, there exists an extraordinary opportunity to derive more nuanced and realistic …
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The effectiveness and implementation of the BokSmart Safe Six Injury prevention programme
… the efficacy of the programme on injury risk profiles (Functional Movement Screening and Musculoskeletal Screening Assessments). The final study was a cluster-randomised controlled trial (cRCT) over eight weeks, using six schools (n = 210 players) in the Western Cape to determine the …
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Evaluation of the Relative Neutronic Risk of Alternative Fusion Fuels
The radiological risk profiles of a variety of fusion fuels were assessed, to aid understanding of the influence of fuel choice on the safety and cost of future commercial fusion power plants. Shielding thickness and activation dose rates were modeled for five fusion fuels consisting of …
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Sociodemographic risk factors for mild mental retardation, borderline intellectual functioning and specific learning disorders in a South African clinic sample
… has identified a number of sociodemographic risk factors that are associated with cognitive disability, there is a lack of South African data that could assist with the development of risk profiles that can help with the early identification of children at risk of having a cognitive …
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The Role of Portfolio Disclosures in the Mutual Fund Industry
… quantity of information on fund strategies and risk profiles, I find a reduction in performance manipulation and managerial rent extraction, evidenced by decrease in risk shifting and management fees. The results are pronounced among funds that offer institutional share classes, suggesting that …
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Reducing system software project risk through choice of project architecture
… and organization - alters the project's risk profile. While most analyses take project scope as an input, I propose the examination of multiple project decompositions take place as part of project planning and project monitoring. The subprojects created by each decomposition will have …
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Impediments affecting entrepreneurial intent in South African MBA graduates
… graduate's entrepreneurial intent was the high risk profiles of MBA graduates, socio-economic factors of the country relating to highly-skilled MBA graduates, and the potential entrepreneur's locus of control and propensity to act on entrepreneurial behaviour.
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Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors and Hypertension in a Community-Based Suburban Population in Nepal
… epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors and the CVD risk profile, in the Nepalese population is not fully understood. Almost a third of the adult Nepalese population is estimated to be hypertensive, but there is still lack of information on the associations of …
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Early adoption of accounting standards in the banking industry
… that banks with lower profitability and higher risk profiles are more likely to choose early adoption. This evidence is consistent with a bank’s incentive to better access external financing. In addition, the results suggest a counter-signaling effect of early-adoption decisions. I further find …
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Including costs of supply chain risk in strategic sourcing decisions
… do not always include the costs associated with risks when organizations make strategic sourcing decisions. This research was conducted to establish and quantify the impact of risks and risk-related costs on sourcing decisions for the automotive industry. The focus is on comparing distant, global …
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Investigating the role of host genetic polymorphisms in periodontitis susceptibility in a Western Cape population
… genetic and bacterial factors to identify risk profiles in different demographics. Filling this gap may guide future diagnostic tools and precision dentistry. Aims: This study aimed at identifying the genetic polymorphisms which influence susceptibility to periodontitis and to characterize …
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The information content of narrative disclosures in financial statements
… affect stock returns but also the liquidity and risk profiles of public listed companies. The thesis also shows that specific text sections within annual reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are more informative than others. The significance of this thesis …
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