Decision theory: general

Teachers stand at the intersection of educational goals, directing students down the road to success or to the byways of diminished opportunities.

How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schoolsthose with high-poverty and high-minority student populationshave dramatically boosted student achievement.

Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects offers a key text on the evolving information regarding asbestos and human health.

This book constitutes a selection of the best papers from the 15th International Conference on Business Excellence, Digital Economy and New Value Creation, ICBE 2021, held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2021.

Lara Buchak sets out an original account of the principles that govern rational decision-making in the face of risk.

Written for professionals in financial services with responsibility for IT and risk management, Dimitris Chorafas surveys the methodology required and IT systems and structures to support it according to Basel II.

Today's instantaneous and ever-present news stream frequently presents a sensationalized or otherwise distorted view of the world, demanding constant critical engagement on the part of everyday citizens.

Das Buch stellt den neuen Ansatz AgileTrio vor, der agile Methoden nahtlos mit ein regulatorische Framework kombiniert.

Why have decades of school reform had so little measurable effect on student achievement?

Recent large-scale corporate collapses, such as Lehman Brothers, Enron, Worldcom, and Parmalat, highlight the implosion of traditional models of fraud prevention.

Wir leben in einer sich schnell ändernden Zeit: Unternehmen müssen sich zunehmend mit der turbulenten Umwelt beschäftigen, um langfristig erfolgreich zu sein.

Risk assessment has become the backbone of health and safety management in the UK and elsewhere.

Navigate a continually evolving global risk landscape and react to new logistical challenges effectively with this vital guide on supply chain risk.

This book is a capstone to the magisterial career of one of Japan's most senior scholars of risk, accounting, and management.

This book comprises the selected proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NATHAZ'22), Angra do Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, 2022.

After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey.

Use this study guide to prepare for the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) exam, based on PMBOK's sixth edition, administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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In times of crisis, risk management is more important than ever.

Characterized by complex challenges and constant change, a school or district hierarchy can prove a difficult setting in which to establish high-performance teamwork.

This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire.

The book covers alternative lending using the emergence of Debt Funds in the EU as a case study.

This Element introduces the only decision theory that really treats human decisions as part of nature, not supernatural interventions.

Introduces a powerful new approach to financial risk modeling with proven strategies for its real-world applications The 2008 credit crisis did much to debunk the much touted powers of Value at Risk (VaR) as a risk metric.

This one-stop, interdisciplinary overview of compliance explains what compliance is, how it is studied, and what factors shape it.

L'Union Africaine et certaines organisations comme le NEPAD ont élaboré des politiques pour le développement de l'Afrique jusqu'à ce jour.

The market is like the sea: it gives, and it takes away.

This textbook, now in its fourth edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to learning various aspects of risk, encompassing supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and sustainability.

This book provides a solution to "e;rare event"e; problems without using the classical theory of reliability and theory of probability.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for security management explores terminologies of security and how AI can be applied to automate security processes.

This book deals with the debated relationship between the characteristics of national supervision and manipulative practices in banks' annual reports, with a specific focus on income smoothing.

Digitalization is changing nearly everything.

This book aims to form part of the growing literature on the banking system in developing countries in its aim to show the levels of stability in the banking sector of small economies.

This book is an innovative and comprehensive guide that provides readers with the knowledge about the latest trends, models and algorithms used to build investment portfolios and the practical skills necessary to apply them in their own investment strategies.

Companies are exposed to a large number of risks from different sources such as globalization, deregulation, environmental changes, technological changes, complicated financial models, and corporate governance changes.

This book introduces a state-of-art approach in evaluating portfolio management and risk based on artificial intelligence and alternative data.

Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues.

Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Student Edition This comprehensive textbook provides a complete introduction to risk management in health care.

This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law, business, psychology, economics, medicine and more to discuss the trade-offs between different "e;layers"e; in designing the use of blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for social trust, trust in data and records, and trust in systems.

Large projects are defining moments for companies and countries.

This book provides a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to major disasters in Asia over the past two decades.

Starting from the purchase of heavy equipment and following through to the end of its economic life, this manual explains how to efficiently maintain and operate different types of heavy equipment.

This book addresses reliability, maintenance, risk, and safety issues of industrial systems with applications of the latest decision-making techniques.

Economic players must often choose between several strategic options in a fierce competitive environment where interactions with competitors make decisions particularly complex.

Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies.

Financial risk management for institutional investors has recently grown in scope to include long-term sustainability considerations and climate change risk concerns.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision-making, broadly conceived.

Saying that many investors were not convinced by cryptocurrencies in their first decade of existence would be an understatement.

This handbook examines the latest techniques and strategies that are used to unlock the risk transfer capacity of global financial and capital markets.