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Risks in estimating risk [PDF]
European Heart Journal, 2013 This editorial refers to ‘SCORE performance in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union: MONICA and HAPIEE results’[†][1], by O. Vikhireva et al. , on page 571 ‘Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future’(attributed to Niels Bohr) ‘I told you I was ill’(Spike Milligan's epitaph) The paper by Vikhireva and colleagues1 is a ...
Ian M, Graham, Marie-Therese, Cooney
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Political Risk, Economic Risk, and Financial Risk [PDF]
Financial Analysts Journal, 1996 How important is an understanding of country risk for investors? Given the increasingly global nature of investment portfolios, we believe it is very important. Our paper measures the economic content of five different measures of country risk: The International Country Risk Guide is political risk, the financial risk, economic risk and composite risk ...
Claude B. Erb +2 more
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Science, 2005 When society makes a decision about some action (to build a dam or approve a new drug, for example), its choice is usually based on a comparison of risks and benefits. If the latter exceed the former, assuming that risks and benefits accrue to the same person or group, the project goes forward ...
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To Risk or Not to Risk? Risk Management and Farm Productivity [PDF]
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2019 AbstractThe impact of risk management on farm productivity is still being debated. Using survey data from French and Hungarian farms, we estimate the impacts of different risk management strategies and portfolios under varying levels of risk on total factor productivity.
Vigani, Mauro, Kathage, Jonas
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The risk of overlooking risks [PDF]
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010 In routine clinical practice, the child and adolescent psychiatrist must take diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in a context of relative “uncertainty”. Indeed, reference frameworks based on solid evidence offer more and more often guidelines for our strategies [1]. Protocols and tools are available in order to improve prescription [2], prediction [3]
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Modeling and tracking Covid-19 cases using Big Data analytics on HPCC system platformm
Journal of Big Data, 2021 This project is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through their NSF RAPID program under the title “Modeling Corona Spread Using Big Data Analytics.” The project is a joint effort between the Department of Computer & Electrical ...
Flavio Villanustre +6 more
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Revista Subjetividades, 2023 No Brasil, novos olhares sobre a família e o cuidado foram elaborados com base na Política Nacional de Saúde Mental (PNSM). Este estudo teórico-reflexivo tem como objetivo discutir os pressupostos conceituais e clínicos do uso de enquadramentos ...
Eduardo Name Risk +1 more
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American Journal of Epidemiology, 2015 The epidemiologist primarily studies transitions between states of health and disease. The purpose of the present article is to define a foundational parameter for such studies, namely risk. We begin simply and build to the setting in which there is more than 1 event type (i.e., competing risks or competing events), as well as more than 1 treatment or ...
Stephen R, Cole +3 more
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A century of trends in adult human height
eLife, 2016 Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Risks, risk assessment and risk competence in toxicology
German medical science : GMS e-journal, 2015 Das Verständnis der toxischen Wirkungen von Stoffen setzt ein gutes Verständnis der Physiologie bzw. Biochemie voraus. Das häufig beschriebene mangelnde Verständnis in der Bevölkerung für die Pharmakologie und Toxikologie beruht deshalb zu einem großen Teil auf den mangelnden Kenntnissen der erforderlichen Grundlagen.
Stahlmann, R, Horvath, A
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