... members of the clinical teams so that a shared understanding of the risks and safety issues can be gained by all members of the clinical team. This process facilitates the early identification of potential risks, enabling appropriate mitigating actions to be taken in a timely fashion. The viewpoint...

..., so that all aspects of safety are covered. Person-centred public health measures to decrease the risk of infection in the community are the foundation of safer care. Human factors and ergonomics theories can be used to make environments safer and to develop safe clinical pathways for patients...

... and environmental risk factors associated with psychotic disorders and summarize them broadly under perinatal and postnatal risk factors. They also elucidate the impact of the psychotic disorders on important social dimensions such as employment, marriage, quality of life, and stigma. Also, social interventions...

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... as in those at risk for developing the disorder. Following a review of early and foundational literature, the authors turn attention toward newer areas of research and evolving conceptualization of schizophrenia, highlighting current understanding of the complex interplay of social cognition, social...

...Here, we present the standard theory of arbitrage pricing of interest‐rate‐related claims for short rate models. interest rates market price of risk martingale measure risk neutral team structure equation forward interest rate swap arbitrage pricing interest rates risk neutral valuation...

... inversion of the yield curve affine term structure affine term structures bonds interest rates martingale options risk neutral valuation short rate term structure Let us again study an interest rate model where the P‐dynamics of the short rate of interest are given by dr ( t...

... phenomenon. Research has accumulated over the past several decades regarding the course of NSSI. While great advances have been made, there remains a distinct need for basic and applied research in the area of NSSI. This chapter reviews prevalence rates, correlates and risk factors, and leading theories...

..., assess, and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning ‘The starting point for reducing disaster risk and for promoting a culture of disaster resilience lies in the knowledge of the hazards and the physical, social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities to disasters … ’   (UN Doc. A/CONF...

...Oxford University Press This chapter covers the process of learning how to structure continued practice, ways of maintaining progress, and how to approach high-risk times and manage setbacks. One can use the Your Practice Plan form to list all of the things to be practiced over the next few weeks...

... the formulation of an optimization problem that resolves the issue of optimal tradeoff of risk and return by modeling expected returns as a linear function in the weights of the portfolio, and risk, or variance, as a quadratic function of those weights. The MVO model contains two critical parameters that need...

... the work environment? Are there opportunities not just to identify the malicious insider threat but to create measurable insider advocacy? insider threat advocacy risk behaviour cybersecurity Thieves, criminals, traitors: just a few of the titles assigned to a demographic of humans who enter...

.... Finally, the third challenge is to look at how we address cybersecurity risk. Meeting these challenges will depend on developing a skill set among cybersecurity practitioners that puts soft skills on a par with technical skills, and establishes trust relationships through genuine dialogue realized through...

...This article discusses disruptive supply chain risks that can have large negative impacts on the supply chain’s performance. Using stylized network models and examples, the article first looks at how to incorporate probability in supply chain design given the difficulty of estimating...

... the standard model predicts, and these biases can lead to time inconsistent behavior. Risk attitudes tend to be very context specific, and capturing them requires not just nonlinear transformations of the payoffs, as in the standard model, but also nonlinear transformations of the probabilities. Individuals...

... Pablo E. Guidotti is the director of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Telia in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A country's risk management strategy to volatility should focus on three main areas: the financial system, public debt management, and the corporate sector. This chapter...

...This chapter analyses the enormous scope of international instruments addressing hazardous substances and activities by assessing both the regulatory junctures and the specific strategies that governments rely upon to reduce risk. It begins with the challenge of identifying which substances...

...Volcanoes represent complex geological systems capable of generating many dangerous phenomena. To evaluate and manage volcanic risk, we need first to assess volcanic hazard (i.e., identify past volcanic system behavior to infer future behavior. This requires acquisition of all relevant geological...

... GDP growth rate fitness function fuzzy logic risk evaluation business decision making prediction time series soft computing Various decisionmaking methods are used in business: classical ones and methods using soft computing ( Zadeh 1994 ). The decisionmaking processes are very complicated...

... on how network topology interacts with the structure of social networked systems such as financial institutions to determine systemwide crises. In this context, entire classes of optimization problems range from maximizing the diffusion of innovations to minimizing risk distributions and cascade failures...