... RISK MANAGEMENT – CURRENT ISSUESANDCHALLENGES Edited by Nerija Banaitiene Risk Management – Current IssuesandChallenges http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2568 Edited by ... Marin Andreica, Stere Farmache, Madalina Ecaterina Andreica and Octavian Stroie Chapter 16 Importance of Risk Analysis and Management – The Case of Australian Real Estate Market 357 Gurudeo Anand ... methodological and practical issuesand areas of risk management: Part X Preface provides new insights into theoretical approaches and models for risk management, Part deals with risk and supply...
... M., and Leidner, D E “Knowledge Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Benefits,” Communications of the AIS (1:Article 7), 1999 Boland, R J., Jr., and Tenkasi, R V “Perspective Making and ... important role in determining the utility of KMS in the following section ISSUESANDCHALLENGES We identify issuesandchallenges related to the utilization of information technology for knowledge ... and groups sharing similar tasks—the communities of practice (Brown and Duguid 1991)—play an important role in communicating and sharing knowledge However, communities have their own unique and...
... brass holder and grinded by sandpaper to the circular Si bead 33 Figure 3.4: Digital image showing a diamond cut silicon piece and its grinding tools 33 Figure 3.5 SEM images showing well and poorly ... problems and wear These issues need to be addressed before MEMS devices can operate with full capabilities and long lifecycle for commercialization (See Fig 1.1 below) The nature of these challenges ... parts and frictional contacts between silicon interfaces (Fig 2.3 & Fig 2.4b) Figure 2.4ai, aii and b shows tribological concerns for in-plane rotary hubs of micromotors and complex gear trains, and...
... and transfer face challengesandissues in the form of certain barriers that hinder the successful sharing and transfer of knowledge Yet, there are other factors that facilitate the sharing and ... uncover the issues in knowledge sharing and transfer, particularly investigating the antecedents and barriers to knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer across various industries and countries ... various authors and researchers on knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer over the past six years Through such examination, the issues, trends, and antecedents of knowledge sharing and knowledge...
... Australian and New Zealand guidelines for fresh and marine water quality Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council and Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and ... TN and TP standards were proposed as the values decreased 17% and 63%, respectively Table - Comparison of conventional pollutant standards in metal assembly industry Pollutant Existing standard ... effluent standard can be applied to conventional pollutants to make sure that the water quality standard is kept In the future, both of technology-based and water quality-based effluent standards...
... Regulation and supervision How are banks doing? Suggestions for future steps Restricted Why all care for China’s financial reform? China’s outstanding growth performance justifies optimism And yet, ... growth, strong fiscal position and international reserves – Very different from Latin America Growing challenges – WTO poses challenges for Chinese banking system and also some sectors in the economy ... joint-stock and city commercial banks Quite different from Latin America, spreads even higher and also profitability 13 Restricted How are banks doing? (cont’) García-Herrero, Gavilá and Santabarbara...
... status and cancer screening 19 20 Current IssuesandFuture Direction in Kidney Transplantation appropriate for age and gender such as prostate specific antigen, mammography, pap smear, and colonoscopy ... transplantation One- and three-year graft survival rates were 75% and 75% vs 92.1% and 75.1% for the cirrhosis and non-cirrhosis groups, respectively (P=0.72) The corresponding one- and three-year ... for covert cardiovascular disease and occult malignancy, and careful assessment of infectious risk in older prospective transplant candi‐ dates are crucial and mandatory Currently, the waiting...
... status and cancer screening 19 20 Current IssuesandFuture Direction in Kidney Transplantation appropriate for age and gender such as prostate specific antigen, mammography, pap smear, and colonoscopy ... transplantation One- and three-year graft survival rates were 75% and 75% vs 92.1% and 75.1% for the cirrhosis and non-cirrhosis groups, respectively (P=0.72) The corresponding one- and three-year ... for covert cardiovascular disease and occult malignancy, and careful assessment of infectious risk in older prospective transplant candi‐ dates are crucial and mandatory Currently, the waiting...
... childhood/adolescent and adult depression, and also between depression in childhood and adolescence This evidence comes from epidemiological studies that compare risk factors for childhood/adolescent and adult ... childhood- and adolescent-onset MDD, and that retrospective and prospective family studies report different results, this requires investigation in prospective studies that examine recurrence and continuity ... genetic studies of childhood and adolescent depression are only just beginning and tend to include small samples There are complex issues regarding phenotypic definition and heterogeneity that need...
... and the Future of Migration: Issuesand Prospects What will migration look like in 2045? Also by Bimal Ghosh THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND MIGRATION: Where Do We Go from Here? HUMAN RIGHTS AND ... AND UNCERTAIN SHORES: Insights into Irregular Migration GAINS FROM GLOBAL LINKAGES: Trade in Services and Movements of Persons The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Migration: Issuesand ... East and North Africa, and the protest movements of malcontents now spreading fast across countries and regions These events touch on issues such as joblessness, poverty and inequality, wages and...
... controlled handling systems Smith and Sparks review the importance of TCSCs before outlining the issues that are confronting retailers in meeting legal and other standards and then examining the future ... appropriate systems and practices to meet the changing consumer and operational demands As before, the future remains challenging and exciting John Fernie and Leigh Sparks Scotland, August 2008 ... demand-driven supply and to ensure appropriate recycling, reuse and other handling and sustainable systems This transformation in conceptualization and approach derives from cost and service requirements...
... areas in highlands and mountains aiming at satisfying local water demand and reducing poverty; • Program for Large Multipurpose Water Systems with big reservoirs (V=0.3÷1.5 billion m3 ) and high dams ... centuries and also directly protects the delta from floods Central Vietnam stretches from the North ( parallel 20o) to the South ( parallel 11o) and is composed of two subregions: the East Coastland and ... where there are sandy islands, large salty ponds, typhoonal and monsoon regime Ecosystem Ecosystem, which changes in basin from the river source to the estuarial zone during and after dam construction,...
... Greater Accra region [11, 12, 13, 14 and 15] A total of nineteen fixed-dome digesters comprising six 15 m3 and two 30 m3 Deenbandhu digesters, and eight 10 m3 and three 25 m3 Chinese dome digesters ... difficult to engineer, construct and operate [23, 24 and 25] In Ghana, Tandem plants have been constructed to treat sewage by BTWAL, BCEL, IIR, and BCL Most common tandem digesters found in Ghana ... layout of tandem digesters as used by biogas service providers as opposed to the recommended layout Figure 13 (A) Tandem digester layout used by BTWAL, BCEL, and BCL, and (B) Appropriate and recommended...
... PSTN signaling and call control infrastructures, (c) service and feature extraction and insertion servers and/ or GWs for delivering the caller’s name and number, voice message, and so on to an ... CONCLUSIONS ANDCHALLENGES ITU-T, work groups of IETF, MSF, and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC), IEEE (standards.ieee.org), Cable Labs (www.cablelabs.com/ projects/), and the DSL and ATM ... flexibility, and widespread availability of the IP-based network and services are fueling the unification of distributed computing and communications (datacom and telecom) infrastructures, and their...
... (1998) Sanders (2002); cf Edwards (2004) 92 See Ashworth (1993) for some details See ch 3.3.7 above 355 356 Procedural issuesand ancillary orders offender and family and the victim and family, ... criticisms of the VPS and similar schemes assume that the remaining aspects of the criminal justice system and social system will remain unchanged, however, and Andrew Sanders has made a powerful ... and on its social and constitutional function The issues are discussed briefly below in relation to two possible rights: a victim’s right to convey to the court information about the offence and...
... suggest directions andchallenges for future research and to discuss the implications of this research A conceptual framework In attempting to understand the links between society and psychosis, ... i.e., post-migration, and are present in primary migrant 242 C Morgan, K McKenzie and P Fearon populations and in their children and subsequent generations Further, CantorGraae and Selten’s (2005) ... known biological and psychological mechanisms to the development of symptoms Methodological considerations The methodological issuesandchallenges inherent in studying society and psychosis have...
... fewer and cheaper resources The situation is however more complex in the case of CDN since higher bandwidth and lower bandwidth cost also have as a side effect that customers develop more and more ... such as streaming and ondemand Important research questions are, e.g., scalability, overlay traffic measurements and modeling, data search and retrieval, load balancing, churn handling, QoS provisioning ... Networks to Content Networks Issuesand Challenges, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol 29, 2006 [29] Popescu A., Routing in Overlay Networks: Developments and Challenges, IEEE Global Communication...
... this volume were guided by the quality, relevance and coverage of the vital issuesand proper analysis and depiction of the impacts, influences andchallenges of the digital economy The brief TLFeBOOK ... for future research that offer new pathways for future theoretical understanding of project-based and network organizations The eighth chapter is Digital Products on the Web: Pricing Issuesand ... productivity and efficiency gains (Amit and Zott, 2001; Lucking-Reiley and Spulbur, 2001; Wigand and Benjamin, 1995) E-commerce also is expected to facilitate entry into new markets and the extension...
... inefficiencies and bottlenecks and enhancing workflow using automation and other information technologies, can add additional cost savings as well as faster cycle times and other business benefits Challenges ... management needs to thoroughly understand the challenges to successful offshoring Major risks andissues include differences in language, culture, politics, regulations, and work practices—all of which ... Uncertain political climate Project and Process Management Issues - Communication, language, and cultural issues - Time zone and holiday schedule issues - Increased travel costs The importance of the...
... health and aging issuesand to develop and provide programmatic and policy responses 13 Advances in Mental Health and Aging Despite the lack of a sustained nationwide emphasis on mental health and ... Initiatives in mental health and aging While critical challengesand service delivery issues exist, there have been a number of notable endeavors and initiatives to address these issues Among these are ... interplay of mental health and aging issues, pointed out in the early 1970’s by Butler and Lewis and others, may be expected to become even more evident in the future (Butler and Lewis, 1973) Based...