Browsing by Subject "risk"
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Assessment of the Potential Effect of Climate Change on Hurricane Risk and Vulnerability in Florida (2014-12-05)Hurricanes are a yearly threat to the eastern and Gulf coasts of the United States. An increase in frequency and intensity of hurricanes is a possible and dangerous consequence of future climate change. To assess the threat ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)While lean manufacturing has greatly improved the efficiency of production operations, it has left US enterprises in an increasingly risky environment. Causes of manufacturing disruptions continue to multiply, and today, ...
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Combined Safety and Security Risk Evaluation Considering Safety and Security-Type Initiating Events (2016-11-15)Destruction to critical nuclear infrastructures would have a debilitating effect on national public health safety, national economy, security, etc. For this reason, analysts perform safety risk analyses to quantify and ...
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(2011-08-08)Excessive risk-taking is a characteristic of several psychopathological disorders. In order to alleviate maladaptive risky behavior, a thorough understanding of the neurobiological and pharmacological substrates of risky ...
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(1983)The nature of the problem of safely investing bank's loanable funds is examined. A possible means of solving some of the difficulties, credit scoring, is proposed with the objectives it shall meet. Credit scoring literature ...
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(2021-04-15)From an individual perspective, one important way through which economics affects our daily lives is the framing of choices we make about our jobs, school, and what we have for dinner. People make thousands of decisions ...
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(2019-07-12)In this thesis, we develop a stochastic simulation model with risk that simulates pricing and costs for the purpose of deriving profit per acre for a U.S. aerial applicator. Given the high startup and maintenance cost ...
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(2011-02-22)Foreign animal disease can cause serious damage to the United States (US) agricultural sector and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), in particular, poses a serious threat. FMD causes death and reduced fecundity in infected ...
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(2009-05-15)This study estimates the association between dietary factors and spontaneous pancreatitis in dogs. A case-control study was conducted using 198 dogs with a clinical diagnosis of pancreatitis and 187 control dogs with a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This dissertation addresses the question of choosing the best information alternative in engineering decisions. The decision maker maximizes his expected utility under uncertainty where both the action he takes and the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The online dating industry is estimated to be worth 1.5 billion dollars. The growing trends in technology have resulted in African Americans logging on to the Web at astonishing rates. Therefore, the goal of this research ...
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(2020-07-24)Failure is an integral and normal part of a technology's evolution. Widely viewed, failure extends from the commercial collapse of a firm promoting new technology and the inability of a technology to profit in the marketplace ...
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(2009-05-15)Little is known about how people evaluate credence attributes, that is, those attributes which the consumer often cannot fully evaluate even after purchasing and consuming the product. And yet consumers struggle to evaluate ...
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(2015-01)Decision making for water resources is needed for land-use change due to urbanisation, which impacts hydrological variables such as mean annual runoff (MAR) of catchments. Urbanisation introduces some degree of uncertainty ...
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(2009-05-15)Texas is the leading U.S. producer of cotton, and the U.S. is the largest international market supplier of cotton. Risks and uncertainties plague Texas cotton producers with unpredictable weather, insects, diseases, and ...
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(2020-07-21)In the event that control of process safety risk is lost, the effectiveness of mitigation barriers is paramount in reducing the consequences. When it results in an event such as a toxic gas release, a mitigation barrier ...
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(2021-10-25)Slope stability analysis and design are important in mining geotechnical engineering, as open-pits have slopes cut as steep as possible to ensure efficient mining. We must mine the ore while keeping the total waste to a ...
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(2009-05-15)Portfolios of contemporary integrated petroleum companies consist of a few dozen Exploration and Production (E&P) projects that are usually spread all over the world. Therefore, it is important not only to manage individual ...
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(2013-08-06)Companies and organizations must make decisions concerning capital budgeting. Capital budgeting is a decision-making process that determines whether a firm should purchase equipment to be used on a long-term basis. The ...
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(1990)In my research, I propose to accomplish two things. First, to analyze the returns of the survivors of bankruptcy on a large time interval in terms of unique and diversifiable risk, abnormal and cumulative returns, and pre- ...