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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"global risk"”.
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A FR 13 microbiological global risk model: demonstrated for pasteurization of raw milk with viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
Steady-state unit-operations are used globally in chemical engineering processing. Importantly however, there are naturally occurring (random) fluctuations in parameter values about a ‘set’ mean. These are not sufficient to be considered transient and a random change in one is often off-set by a …
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Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
In a historical moment, after a couple of decades of development from Nuremberg to the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) set to work in The Hague in 2002, to fight impunity for the most atrocious crimes against international law, …
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Defensive tactics against takeovers in theory and practice in the USA, the UK, South Africa, Germany and the EU
After the takeover wave of the 1970s and 1980s in the USA and in the United Kingdom the 1990s have experienced a more moderate takeover market. Nonetheless takeovers nowadays are a major issue all over the industrialised world, in economic and legal circles as well as in society. One rather …
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The United Nations council for Namibia with special emphasis on its Decree No 1
This thesis examines the legal status of the United Nations Council for Namibia and the validity of its actions before and after the independence of the Territory with special emphasis on its Decree No 1. Chapter I describes the natural environment of Namibia, its human resources and economic …
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Guardians at the Gates of Hell : estimating the risk of nuclear theft and terrorism -- and identifying the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft
Methods are presented to assess the global risk of nuclear theft and nuclear terrorism, to identify the nuclear facilities and transport legs that pose the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft, and to evaluate policy approaches to strengthening security and accounting for nuclear stockpiles …
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The Impact of the Carry Trade on Global Currency Markets
… on currencies in various heuristically defined global risk appetite regimes. Findings of a heightened (lessened) impact of this factor for Emerging/Commodity (Developed/European) currencies in the presence of high risk are presented. The risk appetite process is additionally analysed by …
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Essays on international finance
… for the returns to the carry trade and momentum. Global FX volatility risk, however, turns out to account for the carry trade return in the interwar sample as well as in modern samples. In the second study, we provide a scientific account for the risk-off phenomenon which refers to a change in …
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Essays in econometrics and random matrix theory
… in financial data underestimate the number of risk factors. They are also biased towards a single market factor, the importance of which is overestimated in samples. In Chapter 3, I derive a new consistent procedure for the estimation of the number of latent factors by examining the effect of …
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Essays on empirical asset pricing
… alpha via profitable bets on firm specific risks (stock-picking), I show that a new first-order stochastic dominance (FSD) condition can be employed as an additional search criterion to identify such skilled stock-pickers. I implement an FSD filter to select funds by bootstrapping the return …
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The US Unconventional Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
… influencing EME capital inflows, particularly global risk aversion, domestic political stability, and expected investment returns driven by EME macroeconomic fundamentals.</p>
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Global Groundwater Risk
Global groundwater is a critical yet often overlooked component of the Earth system, supporting human well-being, ecosystems, and economic development. However, increasing groundwater withdrawal and climate-driven changes in recharge are intensifying groundwater stress worldwide. While this …
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Building resilience towards natural hazards: cross-‐scale knowledge and institutional linkages.
… of certainty or security that was fundamental to risk management in the past, collapses. In this context, the notion of ‘risk society’, introduced by Ulrich Beck in 1992, is considered as a shifting paradigm in world security, where our modern society becomes ever more interdependent and more …
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Sovereign Debt and Tax Collection Dynamics in Argentina
… attractive during the U.S. mortgage crisis; and global risk aversion has predictive power in explaining sovereign spreads. </p>
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Improving risk-adjusted performance in high-frequency trading: The role of fuzzy logic systems
… trading have been the subject of increasing risk concerns. A general theme that we adopt in this thesis is that trading practitioners are predominantly interested in risk-adjusted performance. Likewise, regulators are demanding stricter risk controls. First, we scrutinise conventional AI …
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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF FOREIGN INVESTORS IN EMERGING MARKETS
… documents that that in four out of five markets global risk appetite affects equity flows to emerging markets. Furthermore, foreigners’ trading with respect to local return is found to be different across high and low risk appetite levels in Indonesia, Kosdaq and the Kospi markets. Their trading …
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Citizenship education in Irish secondary schools: the influence of curriculum content, school culture and stakeholder perspectives
… is increasingly concerned with issues such as: globalisation; cosmopolitanism; the threat of global risk; environment sustainability; socio-economic inequality; and recognition/misrecognition of new identities and group rights. The pedagogical philosophy of Paulo Freire which seeks to educate …
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A reassessment of the conservation status of a rare Florida endemic mint, Macbridea alba
… of all vascular plants on Earth face increased global risk of extinction. Effective conservation is often challenged by a lack of data to support management and protection of at-risk species, particularly those that are considered rare or endemic. In this thesis, I present an applied …
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EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTION OF GENETIC VARIANTS TO CARDIOMETABOLIC TRAITS
… it does produce. This disease is also a major risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). There are many risk factors for cardiometabolic disease (the global risk of developing T2D and/or CVD). These include altered glucose homeostasis, abnormal lipid metabolism, and increased …
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Elementos essenciais e tóxicos e suas relações com os fatores de risco cardiometabólicos em adultos e idosos
… elements and the worsening of cardiometabolic risk factors. This study aimed to investigate zinc, copper, selenium, arsenic, cadmium and mercury levels and their relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors in adults and elderly. This cross-sectional study was carried out with 112 individuals …
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The response of aluminium and glass fibre FMLS subjected to blast loading
… and impact resistance. Due to the increasing global risk of subversive activity in this industry, the focus of research in recent years has shifted to the blast resistance of these materials. A particularly interesting material being GLARE, a commercially available Aluminium-GFRP FML. This …
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