When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
The arrival of antibiotics in the 1940s revolutionised healthcare, but bacteria are fighting back and doctors and scientists are warning that ever-evolving resistant strains are putting modern medicine at risk.
It is a stranger, so it is a risk, but for modern parents it may be convincing enough.
Nearly 800 million people lack dependable access to clean water and about 2.5 billion people lack access to modern sanitation, putting them at risk of disease.
Banks have developed solutions to some of these challenges, but their work-arounds are expensive and expose them to the risk of competitors with modern systems that were designed for mobile, ATMs, and real-time views of customers and their accounts.
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Modern auto marketing is often entirely about safety benchmarks, and modern consumers are eager to moderate driving risk.
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Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.
Despite the uncertainty, Bricken says companies are still rushing to join what she calls the "secondary risk market, " the modern-day equivalent of Seattle's early entrepreneurs selling pickaxes, supplies, and services to prospectors seeking their fortune during the Yukon Gold Rush of the 1890s.
The business managers of a modern enterprise should not have to take that risk either.
As far as we can tell, in general, antidepressants don't increase the risk for any of the major modern killers (i.e. heart disease, cancer, dementia).
It triggered fears that modern cartoons and even video games could be putting children at risk of fits.
Smoke from cooking "may have been an occupational hazard before the modern kitchen, " he said, putting those women at risk.
Modern investors are much more sophisticated in the way they think about risk, in particular separating the returns available from market movements (beta in the jargon) and managerial skill (alpha).
Modern portfolio theory dictates that to reap higher returns, investors must assume greater risk.
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The performance bonus from minimizing risk for a given level of return (a key tenant of modern portfolio theory) has also been reduced.
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The notion that owning high-risk stocks will yield high returns over the long haul is a bedrock of modern finance.
The workshop aims to provide attendees from Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China with some of the modern tools and techniques needed to estimate seismic hazard, and to turn these into estimates of seismic risk.
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