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Showing 1 to 20 of 5796 for “"Risks"”.
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Bodily risks, spiritual risks: contrasting discourses on pregnancy in a rural Tanzanian community
… and ""unofficial"" definitions of these risks, and that although both address the similar domains of fertility and health, their respective definitions of what constitutes ""risk"" are often times strikingly different. I define as ""official"" the various factors that have been identified …
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Predicting risks from acoustic deterrents
… coastal environments could pose<br/>considerable risks for target (pinnipeds) and non-target (e.g., cetaceans) species which also<br/>inhabit areas adjacent to aquaculture. This thesis contributes new knowledge towards our<br/>understanding of the risks posed to marine mammals from exposure to ADD …
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Toward managing catastrophic AI risks
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Harm and risks of harm
… risk and argues that those exposed to unwanted risks of harm can be said to have suffered harm—on a desire-based account of wellbeing—solely in virtue of that exposure.
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Dynamic global game coordination risks
We study a dynamic global game model of coordination risk among a group of agents invested in a project over a finite time horizon. Once every round each agent gets a private noisy signal of the health of the project. The agent must then decide to continue participating in the project in …
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IRANIAN NATURAL GAS: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
This thesis investigates the Islamic Republic of Iran’s current natural gas sector and explores the opportunities to monetize its proved natural gas reserves. According to BP statistics, Iran owns the world’s second-largest proved natural gas reserves, totaling 33.2 trillion cubic meters, or 17.2% …
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What risks in whose risk society?
The thesis discusses the mediating role of socioeconomic factors in risk debates through an examination of the decontamination and demolition of Fulham Power Station in 1983-1984. The power station was built between the wars by and for the people of Fulham. Located on the Thames in the …
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Urbanisation and Fiscal Risks in China
… findings can help investors better identify the risks associated with LGFV bonds and enable local government borrowing at a lower cost.
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Occupational change : automation and reskilling risks
… Thus, lower-wage workers face not only higher risks of technological displacement but also increased risks of reskilling in order to stay productive. We show that routine-biased technological change (RBTC) due to automation technologies such as ML can best explain these results, while …
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Investigating anthropogenic existential risks through art
… a conversation on how anthropogenic existential-risks can be thwarted. My methodology has five repeating stages, in no particular order: identifying motivations, creating physical artwork, developing or borrowing a framework, establishing provocations, and reviewing the artwork of other artists …
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Mining Security Risks from Massive Datasets
… different security problems by mining security risks from massive datasets. The attempts are in three aspects: detecting security risks in the enterprise environment, prioritizing security risks of mobile apps and measuring the impact of security risks between websites and mobile apps. First, …
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Identifying the Risks of Miscommunicating with Emoji
… devices. In this thesis, I identify the risks of miscommunicating with emoji. Drawing from psycholinguistic theory, my collaborators and I developed a measure to demonstrate the potential for misconstrual of emoji due to people varying in their interpretations. I also investigated whether …
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Managing Software Dependency Risks in Web Applications
<p>Web applications commonly rely on third-party software dependencies to reduce development time. This thesis examines how vulnerabilities in a dependency chain propagate to compromise an application. It analyzes two vulnerable Markdown libraries from the npm and Composer dependency ecosystems, …
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American Digital Election Infrastructure: Policy, Risks, Options
<p>Why is US digital election infrastructure (DEI) in a vulnerable state and what are the possible options to better secure it? To answer these questions systematically, federal policy and current DEI are analyzed through a risk management lens, including both elite and democratic models of risk …
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