Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Professor Bleent, the Floon Beetle, and Organizational Epistemology -- I.Towards a Knowledgebased View of Organizations and Their Environments -- 1.The Tyranny of Light: The Temptations and the Paradoxes of the Information Society -- 2.David and Goliath in the Risk Society: Making Sense of the Conflict between Shell and Greenpeace in the North Sea -- 3.Forms of Knowledge and Forms of Life in Organized Contexts -- 4.The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System: A Constructionist Approach -- 5.What is Organizational Knowledge? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Unobservables, pregnancy resolutions, and birthweight production functions in New York City -- The impact of national health insurance on birth outcomes : a natural experiment in Taiwan -- The effects of government regulation on teenage smoking -- Beer taxes, the legal drinking age, and youth motor vehicle fatalities -- Effects of alcoholic beverage prices and legal drinking ages on youth alcohol use -- Rational addiction and the effect of price on consumption -- An empirical analysis of cigarette addiction -- An empirical analysis of alcohol addiction : results from the monitoring the future panels -- The demand for cocaine by young adults : a rational addiction approach -- An economic analysis of adult obesity : results from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system -- Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on childhood obesity -- Food prices and body fatness among youths…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The structural result: Concentration and complication no one intended -- Part II: The harms: Economic waste, misallocation of gain, competitive distortion, customer risks and costs -- 4. Suboptimal couplings cause economic waste -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A recent history of embedded librarianship : collaboration and partnership building with academics in learning and research environments / Beyond instruction : creating new roles for embedded librarians / A faculty perspective : strengthening at-risk students' transition to academic research through embedded librarianship / Embedding a library program in the first-year curriculum : experiences and strategies of an Australian case study / Replacing face-to-face information literacy instruction : offering the embedded librarian program to all courses / Instruction where and when students need it : embedding library resources into learning management systems / Embedded and embodied : dance librarianship within the academic department / Collaboration in speech communication : a case study in faculty-librarian collaboration to teach undergraduates to write a literature review / A tale of three disciplines : embedding librarians and outcomes-based information literacy competency in business, biology, and communication / One university, two approaches : the Regis experience with embedded librarianship / Kresge Library's embedded librarian program : a student-centered approach / More than a one-shot : innovative faculty-librarian collaboration / Starring the literature review : an integrative approach / Embedded right where the students live : a librarian in the university residence halls / Extending our reach : embedding library resources and services within extension / Embedded librarianship at the Claremont Colleges…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 6 Financial Markets II: The Extended Model -- 6-1 Nominal versus Real Interest Rates -- Nominal and Real Interest Rates in the United States since 1978 -- Nominal and Real Interest Rates: The Zero Lower Bound and Deflation -- 6-2 Risk and Risk Premia -- 6-3 The Role of Financial Intermediaries -- The Choice of Leverage -- Leverage and Lending -- 6-4 Extending the IS-LM -- Financial Shocks and Policies -- 6-5 From a Housing Problem to a Financial Crisis -- Housing Prices and Subprime Mortgages -- The Role of Financial Intermediaries -- Macroeconomic Implications -- Policy Responses -- The Medium Run -- Chapter 7 The Labor Market -- 7-1 A Tour of the Labor Market -- The Large Flows of Workers -- 7-2 Movements in Unemployment -- 7-3 Wage Determination -- Bargaining -- Efficiency Wages -- Wages, Prices, and Unemployment -- The Expected Price Level -- The Unemployment Rate -- The Other Factors -- 7-4 Price Determination -- 7-5 The Natural Rate of Unemployment -- The Wage-Setting Relation -- The Price-Setting Relation -- Equilibrium Real Wages and Unemployment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Priority Lists: Which Data Represent the Greatest Business Risk? -- Customer-Facing Managers Must Be Part of the Team, and Recognize That Data Is an Asset -- Cyber Resilience as Part of Risk Management -- Cyber War Games: Continuously Testing Prevention Systems -- Security Technology: An Integral Element of the IT Architecture -- Protection Levels: Not All Data Needs the Same Level of Protection -- Active Defense, Preferably Before an Attack -- 6.4 Embedded Software: Machines and Equipment Go Digital -- Strategy: Focusing on What Creates Value -- Implementation: Recruiting Talent and Expertise -- 6.5 The Chief Digital Officer: A Steve Jobs for Every Company -- The CDO Must Break Up Silos -- Developing Internal Talent -- 6.6 The Digital Organization: All Power to the Multifunctional Teams -- How Do Agile Organizations Work? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global Financial Crisis Negative Bond Yields -- Risk-Free Interest Rates -- 6.3 Coupon Bonds -- Coupon Bond Cash Flows -- The U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Trade-off Analysis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Trade-off Analyses Throughout the Life Cycle -- 1.3 Trade-off Analysis to Identify System Value -- 1.4 Trade-off Analysis to Identify System Uncertainties and Risks -- 1.5 Trade-off Analyses can Integrate Value and Risk Analysis -- 1.6 Trade-off Analysis in the Systems Engineering Decision Management Process -- 1.7 Trade-off Analysis Mistakes of Omission and Commission -- 1.7.1 Mistakes of Omission -- 1.7.2 Mistakes of Commission -- 1.7.3 Impacts of the Trade-Off Analysis Mistakes -- 1.8 Overview of the Book -- 1.8.1 Illustrative Examples and Techniques Used in the Book -- 1.9 Key Terms -- 1.10 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 2 A Conceptual Framework and Mathematical Foundation for Trade-Off Analysis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Trade-Off Analysis Terms -- 2.3 Influence Diagram of the Tradespace -- 2.3.1 Stakeholder Needs, System Functions, and Requirements -- 2.3.2 Objectives -- 2.3.3 System Alternatives -- 2.3.4 Uncertainty -- 2.3.5 Preferences and Evaluation of Alternatives -- 2.3.6 Resource Analysis -- 2.3.7 An Integrated Trade-Off Analyses -- 2.4 Tradespace Exploration -- 2.5 Summary -- 2.6 Key Words -- 2.7 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3 Quantifying Uncertainty -- 3.1 Sources of Uncertainty in Systems Engineering -- 3.2 The Rules of Probability and Human Intuition -- 3.3 Probability Distributions -- 3.3.1 Calculating Probabilities from Experiments -- 3.3.2 Calculating Complex Probabilities from Simpler Probabilities -- 3.3.3 Calculating Probabilities Using Parametric Distributions -- 3.3.4 Applications of Parametric Probability Distributions -- 3.4 Estimating Probabilities…”

“…Along the way, author Stephen Meister: Discusses how CRE value losses are being driven by investors' risk adjusted cap rates, not just poorer market fundamentals. …”
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“…Research in the United States has shown that youth mentoring is a promising strategy for increasing self-esteem and school connectedness in at-risk youth. There has been little confirmation of those findings internationally. …”
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“…Mastering physical ergonomics and safety engineering concepts is fundamental to the creation of products and systems that people are able to use, avoidance of stresses, and minimization of the risk for accidents. This book focuses on the advances in the physical HF/E and safety, which are a critical aspect in the design of any human-centered technological system. …”
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“…The authors identify the major problems, including great power strategies (the EU, the US and Russia), leadership, the role of NGOs, capacity and knowledge-building, airline industry emissions, insurance and risk transfer instruments, problems of cost benefit analysis, the IPCC in the post-Kyoto situation, and verification and institutional design. …”
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“…El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar los beneficios de una intervención enfermera no invasiva basada en el fortalecimiento de la musculatura del suelo pélvico para prevenir y tratar la incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo en la mujer embarazada Abstract: Urinary incontinence is one of the most common problems that pregnant women face because the pregnancy is the main risk factor for developing it. Nursing is qualified to prevent and treat this disease, with the strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles the most suitable and popular treatment. …”

“…La tasa de muerte por VIH es elevada pero no supera a la tasa de muerte por diarrea e infecciones respiratorias Abstract: Breastfeeding in positive HIV mothers in Africa is questioned because of the risk of virus transmission. However, breast milk transmits antibodies that protect against the most common infections in Africa: diarrhea and respiratory infections. …”

“…The recreational race does not suppose a greater risk of appearance of knee osteoarthritis, it could have a chondroprotective effect…”

“…Furthermore, families of children with behavior problems are often at risk for drop out of intervention programs. This facilitator guide, along with the corresponding workbook, aims to assist parents who have difficulty completing parent training and implementing interventions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Representation of Youth in Popular Music -- 3 Music Videos: Media of the Youth, by the Youth, for the Youth -- Part II: Portrayal of Adolescents and Influential Behaviors -- 4 It Matters What Young People Watch: Health Risk Behaviors Portrayed in Top-Grossing Movies Since 1950 -- 5 Adolescent Gender Role Portrayals in the Media: 1950 to the Present -- 6 Adolescent Body Image and Eating in the Media: Trends and Implications for Adolescent Health -- 7 African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans in the Media: Implications for Adolescents -- 8 Adolescents and Television Violence -- 9 Tobacco Portrayals in U.S. …”
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“…It can put an adolescent at risk for depression and have consequences into adulthood…”

“…As early modern Dutch cultural industries were concentrated geographically, highly networked, and institutionally embedded, they were able to reduce uncertainty in the marketplace and stimulate the commercial and creative potential of painters and publishers-though those successes eventually came up against the limits of a saturated domestic market and an aversion to risk on the part of producers that ultimately brought an end to the boom…”