Patient cumulative radiation exposure—the potential for unintended consequences

Responsibility for Unintended Consequences

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Preempting Unintended Consequences

There is something called the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” Who enacted this law, who enforces it, and its exact scope are obscure. However, from time to time it manifests itself, most recently having made an appearance in some of the fallout from the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“the Act”). One unintended or, perhaps more accurately, unforeseen consequence of the Act h...

Theorizing the Unintended Consequences

Instant messaging (IM) is one of the newest and fastest-growing communication technologies in the workplace today, yet little is known about its real implications for worker productivity. We have taken the particular affordances of instant messaging as the basis for extrapolating from and linking prior studies of email use, polychronic communication, and task interruptions to develop propositio...

Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Basel 2.5: Potential Benefits and Unintended Consequences Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Basel 2.5: Potential Benefits and Unintended Consequences Basel 2.5: Potential Benefits and Unintended Consequences

Since 1996 the Basel risk-weighting regime has been based on the distinction between the trading and the banking book. For a long time credit items have been weighted less strictly if held in the trading book, on the assumption that they are easy to hedge or sell. The Great Financial Crisis made evident that banks declared a trading intent on positions that proved difficult or impossible to sel...