Decision theory: general

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about.

Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?

Concerning sexual behavior in children can be challenging to understand, difficult to talk about, and hard to manage in school and community settings.

A Board Game Education is an entertaining and valuable resource for parents, teachers, educators, and anyone who appreciates the fun and entertainment provided by classic, traditional board games.

This book gives a self-contained, intuitive overview of some of the most important topics of finance, such as investment risk, market pricing and market efficiency, arbitrage, hedging, and the pricing and application of financial derivatives.

This book examines the evolving dynamics between banks and firms within the context of alternative finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration.

Disclosure represents an evergreen topic in banking since it allows breaking down the opacity of the so-called "e;black box"e; banks.

The Integrated Reporting Framework (IReF) is a significant step towards establishing a streamlined and harmonised supervisory reporting system in the European Union.

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

Conduct risk is at the core of behavioural regulation, a new approach to regulating financial services, whose new agencies and public prosecutors have spread rapidly across the world.

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.

In the same way as the 4Ps of marketing are a fundamental principle of business theory, this book puts forward the 10Ps of Risk Management as a consistent and comprehensive approach to the subject.

This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policy makers have been looking to empirical data to distil both what happened and how a similar event can be avoided in the future.

Most approaches that contribute to the design of life-critical systems almost only consider nominal situations where procedures can be developed and used to achieve satisfactory operations.

Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute to the sustainable development of societies?

This book provides thorough coverage of the institutional applications of equity derivatives.

This global handbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of shadow banking, or market-based finance as it has been recently coined.

The psychological dimension of managing risk is of crucial importance, and its study has led to the identification of specific do's and don'ts.

This edited volume covers Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) topics and their impact on companies' financial performance.

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking.

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

This book provides an understanding of what is required to engineer and manufacture drug products.

This proceedings book covers a wide range of topics related to uncertainty analysis and its application in various fields of engineering and science.

This book sheds new light on the Greek economic challenges and helps readers understand the current debt crisis.

Product recalls affect thousands of products globally each year, impacting millions of customers and causing severe consequences for companies.

The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher.

The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field.

This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory and how to validate any survey within the field of engineering.

Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly safe engineering systems and products.

This book analyzes the post-subprime crisis world from the global, Asian and Chinese perspectives.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

Simple but powerful strategies for increasing your success by improving your thinkingThe 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking.

This book collects select chapters on modern industrial problems related to uncertainties and vagueness in the expert domain of knowledge.

Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking.

Engineering systems and products are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain systems and products around the globe.

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one's thinking.

This important book offers unique insights into crime and its prevention in retailing.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering serves as an accompanying study guide for a complete, introductory single-semester course in nuclear engineering.

Navigate the complex landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and model risk management using a holistic approach encompassing people, processes, and technology.

What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world?

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes.

This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity.

This book is the first attempt to re-define objective risk.

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This book provides professionals and practitioners with a comprehensive guide on credit risk modeling, capital modeling, and validation for Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL), International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9), Basel Capital and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) procedures.