Owning the Future: Integrated Risk Management in Practice

Risk and Business-Owning Families

This paper analyses investment behaviour of family business owners in order to disentangle risk taking patterns in the Spanish context. In particular, this study tries to show whether family business owners are more risk tolerant than no owners, and which features are conditioning risk taking perceptions and behaviour. For that, we use data from the 2002 and 2005 Spanish Survey of Household Fin...

Owning Maine’s Future: Fostering a Cooperative Economy in Maine

Owning the Routing Table –

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is the most popular interior gateway routing protocol on the Internet. Most of the known OSPF attacks are based on falsifying the link state advertisement (LSA) of an attacker-controlled router. These attacks may create serious damage if the attacker-controlled router is strategically located. However, these attacks can only falsify a small portion of the routing...

Stroke risk management: changes in mainstream practice.

BACKGROUND Research shows that identification and control of risk factors reduces ischemic stroke. The impact of this evidence and health initiatives on mainstream practice remains unknown. METHODS The purpose of this observational study was to investigate prior management of risk factors (hypertension, atrial fibrillation, previous stroke/transient ischemic attacks) in patients with acute ce...

Integrated solid waste management in megacities

Rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. Furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. Therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...