Essays on Risk Assessment

The concept of clinical risk management is concerned with the aspect of making improvements to the quality and safety of health services in the mental health sector. As such, this achieved by pointing out the circumstances and opportunities that create risks to patients and staff and identify the approaches that can be adopted to prevent such risks through risk assessment and management. Risk assessment and management have become a primary element of mental health services in modern times, and the significance of good practice in this specific health care area cannot be disputed. The process of risk management and ...

Product Introduction and the Market

Technology is developing at a rapid pace. These changes are influenced by the internal organizational strategies as well as an external environment that determines the evolution of consumer demand and expectations. Companies constantly seek for technology-driven solutions to operational excellence and enhanced customer experience (Porter, 2008). One of the most recent trends, driven by technological development are drones and the potential for these devices in the enhancement of customers' e-commerce experience. While academic and business literature outlines the polarization of the views on the use of delivery drones in the commercial market, the potential and attractiveness this service for ...

Cardillo Travel Systems

The Cardillo Travel Systems case shows the way the management cooked up the books only to be caught later. This essay will attempt to answer some questions on this case. False Representation to External Auditors: The executives at Cardillo Travel Systems were aware it needed to maintain a minimum of $3 million of stockholder’s equity threshold established by the court outstanding against the organization. (Ritterburg, 2012). This was the reason that shaped their intent to falsify the organization’s books to misrepresent facts before investors and creditors. The issue started with the accountants at Cardillo making an improper ...

Analgesics and opioids have been widely used for the treatment and management of chronic pain in the healthcare sector. Opioids provide better and faster relief to patients with chronic pain compared to non-opioid analgesics. However, the long-term effects of opioids can be devastating. Cancer patients often require comprehensive treatment with respect to pain management. Opioids is considered as the gold standard for most cancer patients with chronic pain which may relate to improved quality of life and improved patient satisfaction. Opioids have a history for substance abuse and the same appears to be a risk to cancer patients. Based ...

Introduction

In practice, Early Childhood Education is considered as one of the best environments for preschool age children based on a multitude of learning opportunities that it provides (Clark & Moss, 2005). This kind of early childhood education helps the children to foster in their language development, physical development and social ability in every dimension (Fasold, 1990). It is important that childhood teachers examine the trends in the today's society that influence the way the children play. Children's play behaviours will always be different depending on various contextual facts. For example, changes in the way technology get driven including children playing ...

PART 1

Risk is defined as a measure of future projections on uncertainties that affect the set goals, achievements, objectives and performance of business, project or organizations. Risk is often associated with programs such as technology failure, threat, design maturation, supplier capability and performance plan analysis. The mentioned programs are managed through integrated master schedule (IMS) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Industry risk assessment addresses potential variation in market capability, accessibility, cost structure, profitability, substitutes, cyclicality, and regulations. Therefore there are key elements that must be evaluated during risk assessment (Weagley, 2014). They include a root cause or risk projections that ...

During the shutting down phase of a project which involves sign-offs, compliance audits, and official approval, there are possibilities of unforeseen things happening. Shutdowns are largely unpredictable because the normal or programmed operations of project systems are altered. While this may help in discovering problems with the current systems, it also raises certain issues that highlight the burden that may come with project shutdowns. The problems include safety risks, creating expensive or complex problems, delay in respect to the set schedule, ambiguity in decision-making, and the possibility of general failure of a project. Project systems may be designed to ...

Contrast risk, threat and vulnerability.

The threat, risk, and vulnerability are terms that commonly used in the risk management. Even though they seem to be very similar, they cannot be used instead of each other, because in a theory of the risk management there a distinct difference between them. The threat is one of the factors that cannot be controlled or influenced directly from the perspective of the risk manager. It exists independently from the current situation and the main task of the risk manager is to identify the threat on time and come up with a plan how to avoid it, prevent it, ...

Introduction

Risk assessment is an intensive process that involves defining the nature of the risks, their location, and ways of mitigating the risks recognized to allow smooth operation of the organization. The risk assessor must identify every system, process, and individual included. In addition, he/she should identify the relevant vulnerabilities and threats (Pompon, 2016). Risk assessment considers every aspect of information security that entails the environmental and physical, management and administrative, in addition to the technical measure.

Risk Assessment methodologies

Asset Audit The approach considers the assets that are part of an organization and establishes if every asset is being safeguarded sufficiently. This ...

Introduction

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) involves peripheral circulation, the brain, and the heart. The disease is a primary health issue in many countries around the world (Sawhney, et al., 2012). CVD develops through complex processes involving novel risk markers and common risk factors. Decades of research have demonstrated that a sibling’s or parent’s family history is linked to the development of atherosclerotic CVD (Gupta et al., 2013; Nelson, 2013; Imes and Lewis, 2014), which manifests as peripheral arterial disorder, stroke, and coronary heart disorder (CHD). Various Mendelian disorders have also been shown to contribute to atherosclerotic CVD. Although ...

Introduction

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a set of standards that work as guidelines to promoting and maintaining the highest levels of safety in varied conditions of work. The guidelines facilitate the formulation of policies that safeguard the health and safety of the employees as well as other people who may be present at the workplace such as customers and members of the general public. In the provision of bounce house rentals alongside other party supplies such as chairs, tents, tables, and decorations, the company is faced with a number of safety and health issues such as ...

Abstract

The report below provides a comprehensive analysis of Global Finance Inc.’s (GFI) network. It provides an overall description of the network based on the network diagram provided. The report also conducts a risk assessment on the network. The main purpose of the risk assessment is to discuss the risks resulting from the network design and configuration. In total, the assessment identified four apparent risks and the report provides proper mitigation techniques for the organization. The main purpose of the mitigation techniques is to improve network security and reduce financial losses resulting from network downtimes. The report also discusses ...

Purposes of the Report

The goal of the report is to update and actualize a succeeding system for the company’s customers. As a system Designer, I have designed a system to be presented to the CEO of the firm on the concept of a model that is an ideal solution for the current contemporary market. This would constitute a working database that contains the current information about the customers. Similarly, the database can and or will be controlled remotely and managed by the company’s techs.

Introduction

The company, an industrialist of heavy-duty power equipment, currently uses manual advancements methods to take record ...

Implement and Monitor Work Health and Safety Practices

Written Assessment Learning Outline Within this resource, you will be covering the following key topics: Monitor and improve workplace operations. Plan and organise workflow. Monitor and support team members. Solve problems and make decisions. Using these key topics as a guide, you will work with your trainer/assessor to develop your skills and knowledge. The role of your trainer/assessor is to assist and guide you through your learning journey to achieve your goals.

Short answer written questions.

Projects As part of this written assessment you will need to access the following resources to support you in this assessment: E-Coach learning content Computer with internet ...

Introduction

The human resource management department in every organization plays an imperative role in ensuring the health and safety of every employee because they are a prerequisite of a safe and conducive work environment. Workplace security is viewed from two dimensions, namely the exposure to workplace violence as well as the physical factors that can cause harm to the staff. The organizational management should ensure compliance with the standard safety and health measures to avoid legal consequences as described by the government legislation. This paper seeks to establish security and health measures that the management at Beer store should adopt ...

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Executive Summary Deere is a company that deals in the manufacturing and distribution of a diverse range of agricultural, commercial, consumer, construction, and forestry equipment. Lately, the company’s margins in the gatherer chain have been reducing. This chain constitutes one of the most popular products sold by the company’s Agricultural Products Division. The diminishing margins were mainly attributed to increased market competition and the increasing purchase cost of the chain from Saunders. This paper aims at evaluating this issue and, subsequently, providing solutions to the problem. Deere operates in a market that is highly competitive. As such, ...

Business Case: IIS Solution Analysis and Best Implementation Scenario

Business Case IIS Solution Analysis & Best Implementation Scenario

Executive Summary 2 Project Overview 3 1.1 Project Overview 3 1.2 Project Description 3 1.3 Alternatives Considered 3 1.4 Recommended Solution 3 1.5 Risks 3

Project Description 4

2.1 Project Background and Opportunity 4 2.2 Business Needs 4 2.3 Project Objectives 4 2.4 Organizational Benefits 4 2.5 Project Scope 5 2.6 Out of Scope 5

Alternatives and Cost/Benefit Analysis 6

3.1 [Possible Solution 1] 7 3.2 [Possible Solution 2] 7 3.3 [Possible Solution 3] 7 3.4 Comparison 7 3.5 Recommended Alternative 7 Project Risk Assessment 8

REFERENCES 9

IIS Solution Analysis & Best Implementation Scenario Description IIS (Intelligent Solutions Imaging) has a $ ...

Introduction

The child welfare organizations are objectified on assessing the prevalence of child abuse among the referred cases in order to prevent the occurrence of future abuse among the children who are identified at a high risk of neglect and abuse. The child welfare authorities are also focused on determining the prevalence of assessing the consequent neglect among the children with the history of being abused (Enosh & Bayer-Topilsky, 2014). The assessment by child welfare organizations are incorporated by the risk assessment tools in which the explicit criteria and undeviating approaches are used to derive the results. These results are derived ...

Risks and Vulnerabilities Associated with Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Hybrid

Public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds are different in several ways. The use of cloud computing poses various risks to the users of cloud computing. The following are some of the risks that are involved in the use of clouds.

Environmental security

The approach used in cloud computing is that many of the computing resources are located in a common cloud computing area (Romes, 2013). This concentration of resources and uses elevates the cloud computing environment which results in an increase in the number of threats. Cloud computing environments have an allure to attackers due to their significance to the ...

Introduction

Life happens to come with many unprecedented and unpredicted disasters. Halfway across the world there are news of tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, and floods. News reporters give statistics of the many lives that are lost in such disasters and in many instances, the policy makers are not able to correctly determine the monetary value of property and businesses lost in such instances. Such happenings are taking place across the world and some of the greatest losers are business entities. Owing to these disasters and many more such disasters, business organizations have to think beyond the normal operations (Cobanoglu, Blasik, & Haley, ...

Information System Security Plan for a Bank

Executive Summary The information security plan applies to AmeriBank, its auxiliaries, employees, information, system, processes, data, and networks collectively referred to as the Bank. AmeriBank is committed to protecting critical assets and securing information to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of the information, preventing damage to the network and systems that are vital to the bank’s business to ensure business continuity, and minimize risk to the businesses. This is achieved by implementing administrative, technical, and physical controls such as information security policies, software, and hardware controls, which have to be implemented, monitored, and improved upon to ...

Abstract

The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism. In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

1. The Committee of Sponsorship Organizations (COSO) of the Tread way Commission developed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP a Risk Management Framework and an Enterprise Risk process for the organization with goals in four scenarios of the organization:

Strategic: Alignment of the members with the goals of the organization and supporting its mission and vision.

Operations: A correct use of the resources of the organization with efficiency and effectiveness. Reporting: Transparency and availability of the information to all the stakeholders of the organization. Compliance: The framework helps to comply with all the laws and regulations that affect the organization. The components of the Enterprise Risk Management are: Internal environment: The internal environment considers how the internal units and ...

Abstract

The aim of this project is to conduct risk assessment and return analysis on the investment vehicles in my portfolio. The investment vehicles chosen are Ford Motor, Walt Disney Company, Citigroup Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Time Warner Inc, Johnson & Johnson, US Treasury Bills, and Johnson & Johnson bond. The portfolio includes securities drawn from three categories that are the money market fund, corporate bonds, and shares. In the first scenario, the project tested the impact of novice asset allocation on return and risk in the sense that the investor allocates assets to the portfolio at own discretion. In this scenario, ...

Community members risk a great risk of getting themselves hurt at the hands of people prone to violence. The relevance of the study is that it highlights what is instrumental in determining the extent to which mentally ill and violent individuals are likely to pose risk to members of communities, be they prison, hospital or standard civilian groups of people. The literature review will include a board concept of community. Samuel (2015) defined the concept of community as applicable to a human group sharing a geographical area. Following this logic, the notion is possible to apply to patients and ...

Abstract

[Doctoral Study Title] [your official name]

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Background

Megaprojects have become a significant issue in the economic and infrastructural development of projects nationwide. An estimated 8% of the global GDP is made up of megaproject related funds and they have become the primary vehicle for the creation and delivery of a variety of social infrastructural projects including “water and energy, information technology, industrial processing plants, mining, supply chains, enterprise systems, strategic corporate initiatives and change programs, mergers and acquisitions, government administrative systems, banking, ...

ABSTRACT

Risks and assumptions analysis play a pivotal role in success of a project. After the identification of all the possible risks, all risks need to be quantified though critically examining the degree of impact the risks would have one the outcome of the project and then prioritized. Economic analysis could be used as one of the tools for assessing and managing risks. The economic analysis of projects is carried out before actually investing in it and is conducted throughout the project analysis when necessary, that is, design and preparation phase, implementation phase and post evaluation phase of the project ...

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The Influence of Project Managers on Project Success Criteria and Project Success by Type of Project There is a large body of research that supports the importance of effective project management and completion. The mixed method study, completed by Ralf Muller and Rodney Turner (2007), considered the impact of project managers, including attitudes and management methods, as qualitative factors, and age and overall success rate, as quantitative factors, on project completion and success. It should be noted that this was particularly interesting because it considered not only construction related project success but grouped findings by industry and ...

Abstract

In this paper, the author identifies at least three security-related threats and various recommendations how they can be addressed. So far, there were three man security threats that were identified. The first one was the outdated-ness of GFI’s front end system. The recommendation for this was for GFI to invest more in the creation of a team that would develop a dynamic, high quality, and more secure front end system, one that is suited to today’s speed and design standards. The second risk was the presumed use of a common cryptographic passphrase for all of its departments. ...

Introduction

Psychological evaluation of juvenile offenders is an important part of the juvenile court system. This is because the main purpose of the juvenile justice system is the rehabilitation of the juvenile offenders who exhibit different psychological problems and others are raised by dysfunctional families. This means that a juvenile offender may require psychological treatment, assistance with their education, or treatment for a substance abuse problem. Provision of the right rehabilitation service will help in reducing the chances of recidivism. The psychological evaluation of the juvenile offenders may reveal some valuable information to the juvenile court that might assist in ...

Instutional Affiliation

Part 1: Existing Studies Alias, Z., Zawawi, E. M. A., Yusof, K., & Aris, N. M. (2014). Determining critical success factors of project management practice: A conceptual framework. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 153, 61-69. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.041 This source identifies five different variables that define project success; the researchers define these variables as project management action, procedures, human factors, external issues, and project related factors. The researchers define these factors as critical for success, and without synchronization, the researchers project failures in processes. This gives both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of project management and project management processes. This is ...

How to Reform Corporate Ethics in American Business Today

Corporate ethics is an important sphere of American business the regulation of which is of utter importance. It comprises the rules how the company operates: its management, control and responsibility for improper actions. The regulations of corporate governance and implementation of effective corporate ethical standards affect the situation of the economy of the state. Inefficient regulations may lead to huge problems, such as the Great Depression of 1933, ENRON case of 2007, global financial crisis of 2008, because of which the whole world economy was negatively affected, a lot of investors were defrauded, money stolen and etc. Scholars believed ...

Risk Assessment

Teaching Plan A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center Teaching Outline Objectives of Teaching Plan The person who will read this teaching plan will be able to: Describe falls Describe risk factors for falls Implement effectual interventions for prevention of falls Appropriately respond to the hazards of falls The Lesson This will be a learning guide for the colleagues and interdisciplinary team members. This guide will have all the necessary information like patient issue, risk factors, statistics, prevention and suggestions related to falls. This could help in fall prevention.

Preventing Falls in a Major Cancer Center

Patient Issue Falls are ...

Introduction

Safety Management System is a tool of management for the oversight of safety by an organization that is carried out following an approach that is both organized and orderly. Additionally, the Safety Management System approach represents a formal, top-down approach that is adopted by businesses and organizations for the management of safety risks. It includes an approach that is systematic regarding the management of security and considers the necessary structures of the organization, accountabilities, policies as well as procedures. According to Russel (2016), the notion that the implementation of a Safety Management System is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive is ...

Meaningful use is aimed at using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to capture and share data, advance clinical processes and improve patient outcomes. Stage 3 standards are primarily concerned with improving health outcomes of the patient. This can be achieved through health information exchange, making the meaningful use program more flexible, public health reporting, coordination of care through patient engagement and accessing information electronically by patients. Eligible providers and eligible hospitals must attest to above objectives to qualify for CMS incentive programs. However, meaningful use objectives for providers and hospitals differ to some extent. There are ten objectives ...

Complex systems are currently a controversial issue which many authors and researches have discussed in their attempt to relate to its complexity. Mitchell (2006), for instance affirms that, “What has transformed historically and what has resulted in the topic being fascinating is the key technique for the study of complex systems is a simulation. It’s also because of this, powerful machines, particularly clusters, made way for empirical insight into this topic (p. 119).” The primary framework for the complex systems as a course is that it is impossible to illustrate, or comprehend the behavior of a system by ...

Institutions

Question 1 Business bribery has become a global problem to the world economy and efforts to fight it have had numerous obstacles (Adekoya, 2009). Business bribery takes place to enhance business in foreign countries. While this causes an imbalance in business overseas, it also assists businesses to keep up with domestic competition in these foreign countries. Risk assessment is conducted on a regular business to calculate the risk of businesses being asked for bribes in various countries. These issues include whether the official should pay the bribe and if they decide to pay if it should be charged to ...

Introduction

Risk management is important as it helps in taking a business through the risk identification process, risk assessment as well as risk resolution in ensuring that an enterprise becomes successful. When preparing a risk management plan, the first step to undertake is to identify the potential risks for the business. Understanding the scope of the potential risks helps in the development of realistic and cost effective strategies to be able to deal with the potential risk appropriately (Wu, Chen, & Olson, 2014). It is also essential to think broadly when considering the types of risks that can affect the business ...

Introduction

1.1 Background Information Essentially, the use of biotechnology has been one of the most harnessed and embraced concepts in the modern world. The developers of this form of technology aim to provide solutions to the traditional problems that have been in existence due to little or lack of due understanding concerning the structure and nature of various biological components of animals and plants. As such, research and development has worked to explore these structures and determine how they can be used for the benefit of humans all around the world. In that light, biotechnology has therefore been applied in ...

Introduction.3

Project Goals and Objectives..3

Transaction Processor.4

Price and Inventory File..5

Inventory Management5

Communications..6

Documentation.6

Alpha test.6 Beta test6 Start Rollout.7 Actual Project Costs and Cash Flow7 Timeframe and Timeline..8 Resourcing Allocation and Rationale..8

Perceived Benefits8

Assumptions9 Risk Assessment..9 References..10 1.0 Introduction. Universal Retail Corporation (URC) is an active player in the growing electronic gadgets market, and it plans to open a chain of retail outlets to further its growth in the market and combat the growing competitive threat from online purchases (Colophon, 2014). URC is designed to have a sale and stock control system for its proposed chain of retail outlets across Australia. The organization provides ...

SCIENTIFIC OPINION ON GUIDANCE ON THE RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES IN THE FOOD AND FEED CHAIN

INTRODUCTION

Food and feed can contain of elements that have internal structures that can be measured on the nanoscale for example micelles, liposomes or micelles that occur naturally. Nanomaterials is used to categorize materials according to their size. Application of nanotechnology in agriculture can contribute to improved better pest management and protection of crops through better distribution of the agrochemicals and pesticides, growth agents or hormones. It is also applied in genetic engineering, sensors that are used in monitoring ...

Impacts of Outsourcing Internal Audit Fuction Author NameInstitution Name

Abstract This research finds out the effects outsourcing internal audit and extent of external auditors’ dependence on the work done by the internal audit team. We explore if outsourcing the internal audit function affects reliability on internal audit job already done and the use of assistant’s position for internal audit. We determine if internal audit outsourcing, the role of internal audit in systems consulting, affects external auditors’ dependence on internal audit. Results show that involvement in consultancy activities relating to the financial reporting system affects the extent of reliance on the work of the internal audit. When internal ...

Section 1 – Applicant details

Identify which of the Categories this proposal can be classified: A1  For information only (approved externally i.e. MoD) or public data (If yes, please state the name of the external ethics committee)..

A5  Interventions A6  Invasive e.g. Protein/Omega 3 tablets

A7 Random Controlled Trials

NB: If A7 is ticked you will also need to tick A2, A3, A4 or A5 as appropriate NB : Start date must be after approval letter has been released Section 2 – Details of proposed study If you have answered AGREE to any of the questions above, then no further information is required. Please complete Section 9 and ...

Business Continuity Plan for MDL

Business Continuity Plan for MDL

Introduction

Military Delivery Logistics (MDL) is a certified, U.S. Department of Defense approved contractor for the full range of logistics and product distribution services for the Federal, Defense, Intelligence, State and Local governments. It has a vendor network that allows access to more than 200,000 military standard and custom engineered products. It is based out of Santa Monica, California. It has a complex IT infrastructure to supply logistics services and has many terabytes of data that is critical. However, it has about five terabytes of data that is mission critical and has to be ...

Finance

2016-04-19

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the possible spillover effects between the usual banking and existing shadow banking systems and the impact of regulatory policies on the shadow banking system. The usual banking system consists of the banks and regulatory agencies. In comparison, the shadow banking system is a set of financial institutions, which are not banks, but perform their functions. The issue of the shadow banking system has become more important after recent global financial crisis. The Financial Stability Board has been established at that time. According to experts of this organization, various aspects of the shadow banking ...

Risk Management at Old Mutual Group

Old Mutual risk management strategies are shaped by the potential impacts on the company's reputation, earnings, liquidity and future sustainability. They are strategic, and the companies closely monitor them. Owing to various strategic changes that the company underwent in the period under review, strategic execution risk is the principal risk facing Old Mutual. The company is faced with other principal risks including, economic situations in the country of operation, shifting credit risk across the group and currency devaluations. There are also other inherent potential risks owing to the changing customer needs, market exposures, liability insurance risks, and interest volatility. ...

Introduction

Currently, businesses are operating in an environment characterized by risks and uncertainties. Despite this phenomenon, identifying and managing such risks and emergencies have always been a great challenge. It is clear that every business can survive and prosper if they ensure that the process of emergency planning & preparedness is one of the key considerations in their business plan and mission (Perry & Lindell, 2003).

Long Essay

You have just been hired as an independent business continuity planner for a busy local restaurant located in a popular tourist area. The restaurant owners have heard a lot about business continuity planning and want to ...

List of Figures

Figure 1: Components of Risk Management 7 Figure 2: Number of organizations attacked by unauthorized users 17

Management Summary

As part of this report, the current trends of security threats to SMEs were examined. The system components were then categorised, threats identified and prioritized, and vulnerabilities assessed. The assets were prioritized using weighted factor analysis method. A risk register was prepared with the suggested mitigation activities. The risk control strategies were discussed and risk controls measures that were suggested in the risk register discussed again.

Introduction

Current trends of security threats to SMEs The Small and Medium Enterprises face the same cyber ...

Global Risk Assessment: New Alcohol Beverage Venture

Fundamentally, risk assessment entails identification and analysis of potential hazards that may occur in an organization and their resultant effects. The occurrence of risks often results in disruption of normal operations and performance of the affected entity. Before the formulation of a risk assessment strategy, due considerations must be given to nature as well as the causing agents. Risk assessment is essential for the success of an organization. Identification of potential hazards helps in determining the necessary and effective measures to be used in controlling them. Besides, protection of employees and the entire business enterprise is a state requirement ...

A Program to Mitigate and Prepare for Terrorism in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is one of America’s busiest tourism destinations. With millions of people visiting the city annually, many risks face the city. Terrorism stands out as one of the biggest threats that the city faces. This paper proposes a program that would help Las Vegas to be more prepared for any terror activity and therefore mitigate the risk that comes with the phenomenon.

Terrorism and Las Vegas

International terrorism has become the concern of many countries with attacks spreading from New York to Paris and even England. A majority of these attacks are perpetrated by individuals who seek to instill a state ...

Literature Review on Fracking

Introduction The extraction of natural gas has been seen the much-needed reprieve in the face of increased energy demands globally. The natural gas present unexploited energy reserves that can be used to meet the energy deficits in the countries where there are natural gas deposits. Its extraction requires the use of advanced technologies. Fracking the main technology used in the exploitation of natural gas from the rocks beneath the earth’s surface where it is trapped. The biggest proportion of the new wells for the exploitation of natural gas (90%) utilizes hydraulic fracking as the technology of choice. While ...

Infection in cancer patient with febrile neutropenia: epidemiology, microbiology and management

Abstract Febrile neutropenia (FN) is characterised by a decrease in neutrophils number to values below 500 cells/ mm3 and an occurrence of fever higher or similar to 38.3ºC. It commonly occurs in cancer patients as a result of chemotherapy regimens. Chemotherapy destroys carcinogenic cells but also attacks in many cases some normal cells including essential elements of the immune system. Fever is one of the characteristic symptoms of FN and is usually associated with the presence of an infection caused by various microorganisms. Bacteria, including Gram-positive isolates (currently dominating) and Gram-negative species (dominant in the 1970s), are usually ...

The Strengths and Stressors tracking device indicated an adequate environment (including stability in housing, safety in community, food and nutrition, personal hygiene, transportation). The results indicated that an inadequate attention is paid to the learning environment needs of the child, as indicated by lack of school supplies in the home as well as frequent school absences.(“Strengths and Stressors Tracking Device”, n.d.) The clear area of stress as indicated by Strengths and Stressors test was in the area of Family and Caregivers (“Strengths and Stressors Tracking Device”, n.d.) In this part of the instrument, respondents are asked to rate ...

Question One

Risk monitoring is essential in identifying changes in an already identified risk as well as noticing emerging risks. In most businesses, shifts in a risk profile are slow and usually result from changes in business operations (Stulz, 2009). In some companies like financial firms, changes in risks are rapid and require constant monitoring. It is the responsibility of risk monitors to capture variation in risk characteristics as they happen. Failure to identify changes in the risk status and adjusting treatment in real time can be detrimental to a company. It can result in improper treatment of uncertainties leading to ...

There is the need to evaluate the community’s risk communication plan. The council members should allocate more resources for the process. The evaluation of the program determines whether the benefits of the communication plan is felt at the community level. The assessment establishes the ability of the plan to diagnose community problems and build trust between the public and the risk communicators. The process is also essential because it measures the capability of the risk assessment plan in creating awareness strategies (Ng and Hamby 3). These strategies enlighten the public, and they can handle any risks without many ...

Nowadays, the use of information systems in the management of health institutions has become a common phenomenon due to immense benefits that come with the automation of the healthcare. According to Melnyk (2012) healthcare information system plays a significant role in enhancing evidence-based care. The use of the Electronic Health Records has been critical in the improvement of medical outcomes through the reduction of medical errors. Also, EHR helps in enhancing the accessibility of the health information. Despite the enormous benefits that come with the integration of technology in health management, Bertino et al. (2015) reiterates that Healthcare information ...

A crisis communication strategy is a planned approach to the management of any situation that threatens to cause harm or negative effects to a group of people or business. The strategy has to outline the general steps on how the threat can be handled and should bring out reasonable measures and procedures of handling the situation. For example in the tourism sector in any nation, there may arise situations that may threaten the tourism industry such as security and increase in charges (Yu, 2016). In dealing with crisis situations, there is a need to have a crisis communication strategy ...

Insurance Rating

Companies are rated according to their risk of defaulting credit. Credit rating agencies such as S&P and Moody use many criteria to assess the likelihood that a company will default on its debt payment. The ratings of these companies are important because it gives valuable information to potential investors, issuers and the corporations themselves. A good credit rating enables a company to raise money easily in the financial market. S&P assesses a lot of criteria before giving a rating to any company. Some of the criteria used to evaluate the companies include micro and macro regulations, ERM and the ...

Introduction

Quality is the characteristic of a service or a good to be fit for use by the customer or the consumer. The pharmaceutical quality means the production of a product that is free of contamination that gives the therapeutic benefit that is labeled in the container to the customer. This quality is either evaluated in vitro or vivo by the tests performed. In quality design, the vitro product is ensured to have good performance and the same provide a similar quality in the vivo performance test. In this case, the product performance is related to the product performance.

Quality by Design (QbD)

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There has been an ineffective penal system for punishing criminals. The government should aim at getting tough on criminal activities to ensure that the society becomes safe and comfortable in a criminal free environment. However, there has been conflicting influences in the penal system that has proved to be inefficient in protecting people from crime. Law makers have tried to raise issues to solve the problems within the penal system but with less success because the criminals have always been given less punishments. For a penal system to be effective, it should focus on reasonable principles and should serve the purpose ...