Risk factors

Taiwan’s Business Environment as Related to Risk Factors There are several risk factors that affect Taiwan’s business environment, including economic/financial, environmental and, most importantly, political risks. Economic/Financial Risk The main economic risk relates to the Chinese economic growth falling in 2015. Growth is expected to increase in 2016, but economic activity will continue to be inhibited. The US economy’s recovery after the recession in 2008 should help to mitigate the effects

Suicide risk factors is a measurable demographic, trait, behavior, or situation that has a positive correlation with suicide attempts and or death by suicide (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2017). Some risk factors according to Schwartz and Rogers (2004), are depression, insomnia, bipolar disorder, some specific disorders confer greater risks, social personal, contextual, and demographic factors such as previous attempts, unemployment, abuse, and bullying. Suicide risk assessment should specifically

“… risk factors involve “stressful life events or adverse environmental conditions that increase the vulnerability… of individuals…” Protective factors, on the other hand, “buffer, moderate, and protect against those vulnerabilities...” (Kirst-Ashman, 2012.) In this case, the risk factors are poverty, racism, malnutrition if Isaiah would have stayed with his mother as a newborn child, and feeling alienated while growing up in a white family as a black child. Protective factors for these risk factors

I. Background The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System or BRFSS is a health survey conducted in the United States. This system uses this health surveys to look at behavioral risk factors within the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in charged of the BRFSS. The individual state health departments in the United States also conduct the BRFSS. The health surveys are conducted by telephone. It is considered the world’s

Fourgere stated, “Resilience is one of purported protective factor that has been highlighted as being of potential importance.” This was stated in regards of some protective factors that are involved with risk factors in offenders. Protective factors are those supposedly known to relate to positive outcomes. Protective factors are those conditions or attributes such as skills, strength, resources, supports, or coping strategies in individuals, families, communities or larger societies that help people

Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) is a framework for understanding, analyzing and measuring information risk (Violino, 2010). FAIR is a Value at Risk (VaR) model for cyber security and operational risk and is considered an international standard by The Open Group. The FAIR model quantifies information risk in financial terms using a scientific approach (RiskLens, 2015). Other risk models measure risk in qualitative terms based on the opinions of

Risk and Protective Factors: A Case Examination A brief description of the terms “risk” and “protective” factors According to Fraser and Terzian, 2005 (as cited by Frey, Mandlawitz, Perry, and Walker, 2016), “risk factor is any event, condition, or experience that increases the probability that a problem will be formed, maintained, or exacerbated” (p. 99). They defined protective factors as factors or behaviors, which reduces the likelihood of undesirable results. In basic terms, risk factors

partly free. The dependent variable is the political risk. It provides an overview of the political stability in a particular country. The scale is designed to show the greatest value to the lowest risk and the lowest value of the highest risk. Economic, demographic, and geographic indicators are also included in the econometric specifications being control variables thus ensuring the analysis affecting the political risk. The political risk

process which refers to students who face risk factors and succeeds academically where the achievement gap claims they should fail. These students face risk factors such as racism, violence, and low socio-economic status and still manage to excel academically. Resilience Theory addresses that people demonstrate to rise and succeed as long as the risk factors are alleviated. The four factors associated with resilience theory are “risk factors, protective factors, vulnerability areas, and compensatory

INTRODUCTION INTO RISK-FACTOR BASED PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT STRATEGIES 1.1 What is factor-based investing? Consider one of the most urgent problems of modern financial management, namely portfolio management. Analysis of this issue primarily is interesting for the head of analytical department of banks and investment companies and private investors. Risk (also found in the literature, the term total risk) of stockssecurities is the uncertainty of its income at the end of the investment period. Risk is measured