Browsing by Subject "Risk"
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(2012-10-19)This research presents empirical evidence and interpretation about the effects of planning participants and contextual factors on information selection in public organizations. The study addresses important research ...
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(2014-12-09)Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne virus in the family Bunyaviridae that has spread throughout continental Africa to Madagascar and the Arabian Peninsula. The establishment of RVFV in North America would ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-03-01)Contests by their very nature involve risk, winning and losing are both possible, and the gain from winning can itself be uncertain. The participants in a contest use resources to increase their chance of winning. The main ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A drip type rainfall simulator and an existing watershed study were used to assess relationships between runoff, infiltration, erosion and associated risk thresholds on a range watershed in Brazos County, Texas. The focus ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)The use of a slim, high-pressure drilling riser for surface blowout preventer operations in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico was assessed as an alternative to conventional drilling procedures from floating units. Comparison ...
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(2019-08-28)This research aims at developing path and motion planning algorithms for a tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to visually assist a teleoperated primary robot in unstructured or confined environments. The emerging state ...
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(2021-10-18)The objective of this research was to improve existing knowledge on soil erosion testing, modelling, classification, mitigation, and prediction of natural and improved soils for dam and levee engineering. An improved testing ...
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(2019-07-16)Offshore pipeline route selection is a multidisciplinary engineering task to determine the best alternative route by taking into account spatial project constraints, geohazards, safety procedures, environmental conditions, ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-03-26)Besides risk aversion, decision makers are often assumed to be downside risk averse. In order to investigate tradeoffs that downside risk averse decision makers face, this paper proposes five stochastic orders, each ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This study examines how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty. The laboratory experiments are conducted to test some existing models of decision making. The experimental design in this study is different from ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)Production processes involve considerable uncertainty. In decision making, the availability of information concerning the random variables is important. In this study information about random variables is evaluated for an ...
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(2011-07-29)The pricing of total liquidity risk is studied in the cross-section of stock returns. The study suggests that there is a positive relation between total volatility of liquidity and expected returns. Our measure of liquidity ...
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(2015-08-12)A wilderness accident can be an unfortunate outcome for outdoor recreationists participating in risk-related recreation or outdoor adventure pursuits. Some pursuits in certain environments or conditions increase the ...