The purpose of the study was to examine prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement across the course of adolescence among a large eight-year longitudinal sample of 646 Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian First Nations) youth residing on reservation/reserve land in the Midwest of the United States and Canada. Risk factors at the first wave of the study (ages 10-12) were u...

THISARTICLE PROVIDES INFORMATION on organizational approaches to managing stress in the library workplace; defines stress as a person’s psychological and physiological response to the perception of a demand or challenge; develops the concepts of stressors and coping strategies; and emphasizes the importance of library personnel officers, administrators, and managers knowing the dynamics of stre...

for evaluating the role of behavior pattern and emotional factors in coronary heart disease (chd), 86 patients were followed for one to three years (average 20 months). the behavior pattern itself was not considered as a main risk factor, rather it was found to be an aggravating and predisposing factor, especially in morbidity rate. both behavior patterns were more common in males than in femal...

Although changes have proven to be one of the crucial causes of project deviations, this topic is relatively poorly discussed in the literature. This paper presents research whose goal was to examine how changes can be prevented, and how to reduce their negative impact. Theoretical research examined risk management and change management. The developed model was verifi ed after conducting empiri...

This paper critically analyses the significance of psychosocial intervention as a new form of international therapeutic governance based on social risk management. Firstly the paper examines the international psychosocial model and its origins in an Anglo-American therapeutic ethos. Secondly the paper argues that psychosocial approaches jeopardise local coping strategies. Thirdly the paper high...

The question of whether the benefits of the earned value management process exceed the costs has not been adequately reported in the literature. Several studies report the costs but ignore the benefits. Others focus on the benefits, but ignore the costs. For example, a widely circulated report by Coopers & Lybrand and TASC (1994) concludes that the DOD regulatory cost is significant, and the re...

This paper proposes a simple model for understanding transaction costs – their composition, size and policy implications. We distinguish between investments in institutions that facilitate exchange and the cost of conducting exchange itself. Institutional quality and market size are determined by the decisions of risk averse agents and conditions are discussed under which the efficient allocati...

This paper investigates the comparative statics of ”more ambiguity aversion” as defined by Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (2005). The analysis uses the static two-asset portfolio problem with one safe asset and one uncertain one. While it is intuitive that more ambiguity aversion would reduce demand for the uncertain asset, this is not necessarily the case. We derive sufficient conditions for...

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants’ risk attitudes failed to explain their choices between corrupt and non-corrupt behavior. Instead, beliefs appeared to be a better predictor of whether or not they would opt for...