The risk sphere in business is fast changing and expanding. Almost anything has become a risk factor that will have potent, direct, and far reaching impacts on business. This paper examines the intensity of enterprise risk management (ERM) practices among the Malaysian public listed companies. The paper espouses a ERM framework comprising fourteen important implementation elements and processes...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incremental costs associated with sepsis as a complication of general surgery, controlling for patient risk factors that may affect costs (eg, surgical complexity and comorbidity) and hospital-level variation in costs. DESIGN Database analysis. SETTING One hundred eighteen Veterans Health Affairs hospitals. PATIENTS A total of 13 878 patients undergoing general s...

The objective of this article is to discuss the potential of economic analysis as a tool for identification and evaluation of corruption in legislative acts. We propose that corruption be perceived as a risk variable within the legislative process. Therefore we find it appropriate to employ risk analysis methods, used in various fields of economics, for the evaluation of corruption in legislati...

The growing importance of enterprise risk management and the resulting integration efforts put the need for separate IT risk management frameworks in question. In this research we analyse common and distinct elements of the COSO enterprise risk management and ISACA Risk IT frameworks. The analysis affirms the hypothesis that separate IT risk management frameworks are redundant.

risks mean cases of uncertainty of project, the impact of which is realized as a threat (negative aspect) and/or opportunity (positive aspect). the traditional viewpoint on risk is a negative viewpoint that implies damages, loss and harmful consequences. judgments such as this on risk merely emphasize on risks management and pay less attention to opportunities management. it is clear that some ...

We present FireCite, a Mozilla Firefox browser extension that helps scholars assess and manage scholarly references on the web by automatically detecting and parsing such reference strings in real-time. FireCite has two main components: 1) a reference string recognizer that has a high recall of 96%, and 2) a reference string parser that can process HTML web pages with an overall F1 of .878 and ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the field of Risk Management (RM) in relation with Knowledge Management (KM). It attempts to present a conceptual framework, called Knowledge-Based Risk Management (KBRM) that employs KM processes to improve its effectiveness and increase the probability of success in innovative Information Technology (IT) projects. It addresses initiatives towards employ...

Aminopeptidase A (APA) is a membrane-bound zinc metalloprotease cleaving, in the brain, the N-terminal aspartyl residue of angiotensin II to generate angiotensin III, which exerts a tonic stimulatory effect on the control of blood pressure in hypertensive animals. Using a refined APA structure derived from the human APA crystal structure, we docked the specific and selective APA inhibitor, EC33...