An effective disaster management system requires collection of baseline data that is comprehensive, accurate, timely, and accessible. Without these four characteristics, an effective, economical, and task-oriented disaster ...
Despite billions of dollars of annual exposure from claims and litigation related to construction-induced damage, there are no quantitatively based, agreed upon standards or procedures as to what constitutes due diligence ...
Doyle, Orla(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-04)
Deprivation early in life has multiple long term consequences for both the individual and society. An increasing body of evidence
finds that targeted, early interventions aimed at at-risk children and their families can ...
OBJECTIVES:To determine whether an intervention that combines low-intensity exercise and incontinence care offsets some of its costs by reducing the incidence of selected health conditions in nursing home residents.
D ...
Objective: Prospective studies have linked both negative affective states and trait neuroticism with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. However, identifying how fluctuations in cardiovascular activity in ...
In section 1, I set out a general perspective on the nature of egalitarianism and relate it to some familiar conceptions of economic equality. In section 2, I argue in keeping with the popular notion of equality that it ...
An important trend in macroeconomic research in recent years involves the increased use of optimization-based models with nominal rigidities (such as sticky prices) to analyse how monetary policy affects the economy and ...
We use historical industrial emissions data to assess the level of abatement and overallocation
that took place across European countries during the pilot phase (2005-2007)
of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. ...
Bredin, Donal; Hyde, Stuart(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)
This paper investigates the degree of both foreign exchange rate and interest rate
exposure of industry level portfolios in the G7. Our paper draws on the efficient market
hypothesis and examines the extent of unexpected ...