“…Current practice in Norway is that all pregnant women at increased risk of having a child with an X-linked recessive disease, are eligible for an invasive test (chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis), without any determination of the fetal sex beforehand. …”

“…Type 2 diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that can increase the risk of death, heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. …”

“…HPV vaccination is highly efficacious against the development of high risk HPV 16/18 type related infections, the most common cause of cervical cancer. …”

“…Such conditions increase the risk of coming into contact with the virus for incarcerated people, correctional staff, and their families and communities. …”

“…This book comprehensively conceptualises disaster resilience leadership within the macro context of a risk society. Leadership for disaster resilience has gained prominence in the face of global environmental change, and the need for collaboration, integration, and synergy in addressing this crisis is starker than ever. …”

“…This book starts by laying the groundwork, delving into risk navigation, asset classification, and threat identification, helping you establish a robust framework for layered security. …”

“…This book shows you how to use SciPy and statsmodels to identify alpha factors and hedge risk, and construct momentum and mean-reversion factors. …”

“…In this book, they explain how to use vulnerability, trust, empathy, and risk-taking to build Shared Sisterhood and break down three key parts of the process: 1. …”

“…The report calls for a shift in how tipping points are treated in climate policy today and provides recommendations on how climate risk management strategies can better reflect the risks of tipping points in the areas of mitigation, adaptation and technological innovation…”

“…Applying the lessons they've learned from working with high-stakes, high-risk team situations to any kind of organization, they will dispel some of the most enduring myths (e.g., can you be both a star and a great team player?)…”

“…Huge and growing quantities of waste are discarded every year and this waste contains toxic and carcinogenic compounds which can pose a risk to the environment. However, if handled correctly, electronic waste presents a valuable source of secondary raw materials. …”

“…What advice should be given to those at risk of bearing genetically defective children? How are birth defects explained to parents? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Simopoulos -- Measuring blood fatty acids as a surrogate indicator for coronary heart disease risk in population studies / B. Lands -- Fast determination of fatty acids in whole blood collected from fingertips : application to the assessment of fatty acid patterns (and various indexes) in population studies / C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nonprofits and the Value of Risk Management Martin F. Grace 12. Contracting Out Salvatore Alaimo 13. …”

“…As in previous volumes, World Resources 1998-99 also looks at the current state of the environment as it relates to population and human well-being, resources at risk, and consumption and waste. The book also contains the latest core country data from 157 countries and new information on poverty, inequality, and food security…”
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“…How the emerging alliance between the worlds of academia and business puts our universities at risk and how this union will affect us all. Our federal and state tax dollars are going to fund higher education. …”

“…While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. …”

“…This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come from 15 different countries) and industrial sectors. …”

“…Jack McClelland, the man who set out in the fifties to transform McClelland & Stewart into the country's most exciting publishing house, is renowned as a risk-taker and an entrepreneur, indefatigable, irascible, funny and humane, who did some things well and some things badly - both in extreme measures. …”