Dean Zarras has been writing software since 1982, focusing on large-scale trading and risk management systems on and off Wall Street.
Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.
The efficient frontier measures all investments on a scale of risk and return.
Speaking of the industry in general, Mr. Medvedev said the Gulf spill would trigger a reassessment of the scale of risk and how to prevent massive accidents.
Given the legal and political risk and the size and scale needed to deal with both, it would be next to impossible to start a new tobacco company now.
"Cleantech investing is mostly large in scale, large in risk and large in potential rewards, " Dolezalek says.
So, according to MegaFirm, economic meltdowns and large scale government dependency reduce risk?
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On a program of this scale, I have considered that risk and put plans and contracts in place, which have been reviewed by OGC and the NAO.
Control Risks ranks countries across four categories, including political and terrorist risk, and rates each country on a five-point scale, from Insignificant through Extreme.
Even worse, the army might split along ethnic lines, plunging the country into civil war and catastrophe on a vast scale for Nigeria's 100m people and the 60m or so neighbours at risk from Nigerian instability.
Alt A loans are somewhat in-between prime and subprime mortgages on the risk scale.
They are being complacent - and risk social upheaval on a scale they will not be able to manage.
The structure allows Apple to minimize risk and take advantage of scale by having most of its foreign earnings held by one entity.
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The shift from collectivisation to a market economy, Mr Sneath argues, was in many ways a far more wrenching change, one that undermined or destroyed institutions that had long sustained nomadic pastoralism, particularly ones that spread risk and reaped economies of scale.
Our knowledge economy is producing alarmism on an industrial scale and the siren call to avoid this or that risk is ceaseless.
Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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Nigeria was ranked a 5 on a scale of 1 to 5 for terrorist risk, while Tanzania and Mozambique were on par with the United States and Canada at a ranking of 2.
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The Institutes will each have a well-defined technology focus to address industrially-relevant manufacturing challenges on a large scale and to provide the capabilities and facilities required to reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies.
Data from the Women's Health Initiative and other large-scale trials suggest estrogen plus progestin therapy moderately reduces risk for fractures but increases the chance of developing strokes, dementia, deep vein thrombosis, urinary incontinence and gallbladder disease.
Moreover, a strictly price-based comparison between clean and dirty energy ignores many of the other non-market barriers that must be solved for clean energy to adopted on a meaningful scale, such as regulatory and infrastructure hurdles, issues with intermittency, technology risk, and other barriers.
Scale is not a substitute for radical invention, and the Chinese bureaucracy chronically discourages risk.
You must tear down and re-create your company--or at least your e-commerce division--to ride what the Internet surf has brought in: oceans of risk capital, highly mobile talent pools, tiny markets that could scale and explode, marginless growth, big hairy bets on the future.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a large-scale report reviewing the evidence for the role of certain lifestyle variables and environmental factors in breast cancer risk.
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"It appears the Government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result, " he said.
Just driving the car even being engaged over phone calls during the journey may scale the distance and complete the journey but we can not expect creativity and above all there is inherent risk in carrying out the casual act.
From natural disasters and political unrest, to turbulent commodity prices, business on a global scale brings never-before-seen risk.
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The North Koreans may not wish to risk a full-scale naval engagement -- its warships came off much worse in the 1999 skirmishes and the technological gap between the two fleets has only widened since.
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