Risk and Culture: An essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers.

A player may be hampered by a few poor rolls of the dice in Risk or Monopoly, but over many games a good player will win more often.

* FRM ( Financial Risk Manager ) conferred by the Global Association of Risk Professionals ( GARP )

* PRM ( Professional Risk Manager ) conferred by the Professional Risk Managers ' International Associate ( PRMIA )

A review of all randomized controlled trials in the scientific literature by the Cochrane Collaboration published in JAMA in 2007 found that β-carotene increased mortality by something between 1 and 8 % ( Relative Risk 1. 05, 95 % confidence interval 1. 01-1. 08 ).

Records like " Play At Your Own Risk " by Planet Patrol, " One More Shot " by C Bank, " Al-Naafiyish ( The Soul )" by Hashim, and " I. O. U. " by Freeez became hits.

* Risk parity: equalizing risk by allocating funds to a wide range of categories while maximizing gains through financial leveraging.

New performance measures have been introduced that attempt to address some of theoretical concerns with traditional indicators, including: modified Sharpe ratios ; the Omega ratio introduced by Keating and Shadwick in 2002 ; Alternative Investments Risk Adjusted Performance ( AIRAP ) published by Sharma in 2004 ; and Kappa developed by Kaplan and Knowles in 2004.

The CISA Review Manual 2006 provides the following definition of risk management: " Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities and threats to the information resources used by an organization in achieving business objectives, and deciding what countermeasures, if any, to take in reducing risk to an acceptable level, based on the value of the information resource to the organization.

Risk which can be insured by private companies typically share seven common characteristics:

The program was extended until the end of 2014 by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act 2007 ( TRIPRA ).

*" How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong " by Benoit Mandelbrot & Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Referred to by the Reporters of the Second and Third Restatements of the Law of Torts as the " scope-of-the-risk " test, the term " Risk Rule " was coined by Harvard Law Professor Robert Keeton.

* Risk reduction ( disambiguation ), risk management by reducing the severity of an eventuated risk

Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks ( defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives, whether positive or negative ) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and / or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

* Risk charting-This method combines the above approaches by listing resources at risk, threats to those resources, modifying factors which may increase or decrease the risk and consequences it is wished to avoid.

Risk mitigation needs to be approved by the appropriate level of management.

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo ( Empire Falls, The Risk Pool ) was raised in Gloversville.

Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, was published by John Wiley & Sons in September 1996 and won the Edwin G. Booz Prize for the most insightful, innovative management book published in 1996.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Pierre Bourdieu's essay " The Field of Cultural Production " depicts the publishing industry as a " space of literary or artistic position-takings ," also called the " field of struggles ," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

Sartre, popularly understood as misreading Heidegger ( an understanding supported by Heidegger's essay " Letter on Humanism " which responds to Sartre's famous address, " Existentialism is a Humanism "), employs modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.

* Barbara Olson, RIP Memorial essay by Alfred S. Regnery, president of Regnery Publishing

The first theory about software was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem ( decision problem ).

The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).

The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay ; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others.

One of the most influential contributions to this question was an essay written in 1950 by pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, titled Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

Linguists Edward R. Simmen and Richard F. Bauerle report the use of the term in an essay by Mexican American writer, Mario Suárez, published in the Arizona Quarterly in 1947.

In his essay " Chicanismo " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures ( 2002 ), Jose Cuellar dates the transition from derisive to positive to the late 1950s, with a usage by young Mexican-American high school students.

The term " consequentialism " was coined by G. E. M. Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

Complete copies have laid in the three page essay " The Price of Poetry ", on Smith's verse, by David Warren Ryder, which was printed to accompany the book.

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An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.