In this paper I explore how the evolution of emotional expression and co-operative planning in humans may inform the way they communicate about risks, and what implication this may have for models of rationality in risk communication. In particular, I focus on aspects of human language that enable successful co-ordination around shared tasks that involve the management of uncertainty by a group...

Heightened systematic risk in the credit crisis has created challenges to CDO pricing and risk management. One important focus has been on the modeling of stochastic recovery. Different approaches within the Gaussian Copula framework have been proposed, but a consistent model was lacking until the recent paper of Bennani and Maetz [6] which shifted the modeling from period recovery to spot reco...

1 Outstanding leaders, whether in health care or any other context, are able to develop what can be described as resonant relationships with others.1 They do this by creating a positive emotional tone in their interactions, and also by making genuine, authentic connections with others. These resonant leaders create an environment where others are highly engaged, making them willing and able to ...

Despite being blessed with immense oil resources, Arab countries have neither achieved economic prosperity nor became developed countries. This chapter provides a brief overview of issues related to understanding the origins and symptoms of the resource curse and the challenges triggered by oil dependency in the Arab World including the traditional issues related to economic diversification, Du...

This paper deals with risk management in supplier networks. The primary aim is to illustrate challenges that network co-operation brings to risk management. The paper outlines the general structure of the risk management process and presents methods for risk management in a complex network environment. The results indicate that risk management is an important development target in the studied s...

Cocaine is now responsible for the second-highest number of cessation intervention requests. In this study we analyze the different skills of emotional intelligence in cocaine- dependent patients maintaining abstinence. The Mayer- Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) were administered to 50 subjects (25 individuals with no history of drug...

This paper builds on Hornstein’s (2005) proposal that Merge (Chomsky, 1995) can be split up into the more basic operations Concatenate and Label. This opens up the possibility that Concatenate applies without Label to generate flat structures, an option which Hornstein & Nunes (2005) explore for encoding adjuncts. The central claim is that Label is not needed as a syntactic primitive if a long ...

Risks are unavoidable in systems engineering projects due to emerging changes during the lifetime of projects. Changes in activities and peoples’ roles are usually not free from conflicts, which in some cases if not dealt adequately, increase the project failure risks and could bring the whole project to a standstill. Herein, we present a method that examines the impact of change to project's d...

In this paper, the author first reviewed studies of migration and development in developing countries. Then, by linking the macro-and microapproaches, he presented a multilevel contextual analysis of migration based on a baseline survey in the rural areas of Guangdong province, China in 1995 to evaluate the impacts of migration policy, rural community development, individual and household chara...

Article history: Received 13 December 2012 Received in revised form 11 October 2013 Accepted 11 October 2013 Available online 4 November 2013 While a large body of research has examined the outcomes of emotional intelligence, relatively little is known about the antecedents of emotional intelligence. Prior research suggests that emotional intelligence has different effects on management outcome...