In a well-designed enterprise risk management (ERM) program, the firm integrates risk management into the strategic planning process, addressing strategic risk, financial risk, operational risk, and hazard risk under a single overarching process. This is particularly important to large financial firms, such as property and casualty (P&C) insurers, which face a diverse set of risks. We find that...

Since Chen published the E/R model in 1976, some proposals extending its expressive power have appeared, some of them are based in the preceding semantic models. Thus, currently, some conceptual models allow relationships between relationships and even generalizations of relationships. These proposals could be better understood if relationships are considered as object types allowing other poss...

By researching the telecom operations support system and the business support system, a telecom product management framework is presented via integrated with the customer management system (CRM), especially integrated with the analytic CRM and the business intelligence system (BI). It includes five layers, information resource object layer, metadata database layer, basic services layer, informa...

Objective: In obese children, there is a greater likelihood that they will become obese adults, and they will have negative physical and psychological outcomes. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of parental nutritional style in the relationship between parental coping styles and childhood obesity. Materials and Methods: The present study was descriptive and correlationa...

A study was conducted to assess the effects of mortality salience on evaluations of political candidates as a function of leadership style. On the basis of terror management theory and previous research, we hypothesized that people would show increased preference for a charismatic political candidate and decreased preference for a relationship-oriented political candidate in response to subtle ...

Object-oriented programs evolve by means other than just the addition of new classes. The changes to object-oriented programs that have been most studied are those based on inheritance, on reorganizing a class hierarchy. However, aggrega-tion is a relationship between classes that is just as important as inheritance, and many changes to an object-oriented design involve the aggregate/component ...