Youth Gang Prevention EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Gang prevention‚ intervention and suppression for youth at risk and gang members are strategies for addressing the recent increases in youth and gang related problems in the city of Norfolk‚ Virginia. State and local policymakers as well as citizens are concerned about public safety and want to avoid a continued increase in gang activity and membership. An effective response to the problems of youth must be built on a thorough understanding of the problem
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Keeping high fall risk patients safe is a challenge in nurses worldwide. Despite implementation of many prevention strategies‚ patient falls in hospitals continue to be a serious safety problem‚ causing nursing staff and administrators to seek innovative ways to further reduce falls among hospitalized patients. If high fall risk patients were to be monitored at all times of the day‚ the risk for falls would decrease drastically. Problem Statement The purpose of this study is to explore if implementing
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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Eini Laaksonen Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute 14/2010 ISSN 1795 - 5076 Political risks of foreign direct investment in the Russian gas industry – The Shtokman gas field project in the Arctic Ocean Eini Laaksonen1 14/2010 Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute www.tse.fi/pei 1 Eini Laaksonen is Research Associate at the Pan-European
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about Skin Cancer.” Life Science. Ed. Robert R. Britt. N.p.‚ 29 July 2008. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. . American Cancer Society. “Study Links Tanning Bed Use to Increased Risk of Melanoma”. 2010. McShane‚ Larry Skin Cancer Foundation. “The Dangers of Tanning”. 2012. < http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/tanning > U.S
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RISK IN VARIOUS FORMS FACE ALL KINDS OF BUSSINESS AND THEYCOME FROM VARIETY OF FACTORS. SOME FACTORS ARE CONTRLLABLE OTHERS ARE NOT CONTROLLABLE. USING EXAMPLES NAME AND DISCUSS TWO FACTORS FROM EACH CONTROLLABLE AND NON CONTROLLABLE FACTORS THAT COULD POSSSIBLY RESULT INTO RISK RISK Risk is often mapped to the probability of some event which is seen as undesirable. Usually the probability of that event and some assessment of its expected harm must be combined into a believable scenario (an outcome)
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the public health framework‚ consisting of three levels of prevention programs; primary‚ secondary‚ and tertiary prevention. Primary prevention activities are directed at the general population to prevent maltreatment before it occurs. These are programs and services that are made available to all members of a community and focus on raising the awareness of the problem‚ how to report the problem‚ and where to seek help. Primary prevention strategies include public awareness campaigns and public service
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quality improvement initiative was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a fall prevention program using education and a fall prevention kit
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Risk and Resilience When I think of a resilient person‚ what comes to mind is someone who can face the obstacles in their life head-on. These people can keep their cool when disaster strikes. Resilient people are able to utilize their skills and strengths to cope and recover from problems and challenges. There are various degrees of setbacks in our lives‚ some bigger or smaller than others. How we learn to cope and deal with these setbacks not only will attribute our outcome‚ but also our psychological
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finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area that
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