Although companies have increased their risk awareness along with their investments in risk management, significant shortfalls still exist.
Risk awareness relative to the reference index has become paramount among fixed income players and arguably a source of alpha in and of itself.
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The British diplomat said the aim was to help people living with Aids, or at risk of it, to lead fulfilled lives and have greater Aids-related risk awareness.
Although, we also know that awareness of risk doesn't necessarily lead to protective behavior.
"More work also needs to be done to tackle the poor awareness that cancer risk increases with age, " she added.
Industrial stakeholders have an opportunity, and arguably a responsibility, to ally around education, raised awareness and lowered risk.
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The program involved improved awareness of injury risk as well as promoting proper motion patterns and muscle strengthening to minimize injury.
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The spending on the gas network will also finance spending by the energy firms on raising public awareness about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The disastrous BP oil spill has raised awareness of the risk of offshore drilling, and is likely to create renewed interest in abundant and clean-burning natural gas as an alternative for many uses.
As part of their awareness campaign, Prostate Cancer Research is encouraging more men to talk about the disease and is raising awareness of the risk factors and symptoms that men, their wives and mums should be looking out for.
That survey was requested by America's Congress nearly a decade ago, and was stimulated in part by the dramatic images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, whose collision with Jupiter in 1994 generated a great deal of public awareness of the risk of asteroid impacts. (A couple of Hollywood films exploring doomsday scenarios also swayed opinion.) In 2005 Congress ordered the survey that is about to start.
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"I would hope that this study raises awareness as to the risk associated with pesticide exposure, " Bouchard says.
The Fed worked hard in June to increase the awareness of the inflation risk, causing interest rate expectations to rise.
Members of the ECA hope that the report will draw awareness to climate change risk and vulnerability in the days leading up to the U.N.
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It will be translated into Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean to increase awareness of HBV and its risk factors and to encourage testing.
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The European Union supports UNESCO-IOC efforts by funding the NEAMTWS Tsunami Information Centre (NEAMTIC) project with the objectives of improving the circulation of best practices on tsunami risk reduction in the region, raising awareness of population exposed and strengthening the linkages between IOC and the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Our risk tolerance in dangerous situations lowers with our awareness of the danger and how effectively it can be lessened.
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This is also to provide a kind of "conceptual umbrella" to underline and boost the awareness that new discoveries often entail this risk of discrimination or stigmatization.
Cultural influences that permeate an organization and an industry and manifest in actions that can either promote and nurture a high reliability organization with high reliability systems, or actions reflective of complacency, excessive risk-taking, and a loss of situational awareness.
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It says the government could do more to raise awareness of how people can reduce their cancer risk.
Go Red for Women is specifically about increasing awareness among women, particularly in at-risk minority communities about the risks and prevention of heart disease, but The Fit Cycle, as Winslow calls her project, is relevant to everyone.
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In other words, awareness and responses to risks vary wildly across industries and risk categories.
Bringing awareness to this problem can result in consultancy fees and demand for risk management products.
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The charity made the announcement of the new figures at the start of a public awareness campaign aiming to reach the estimated seven million people at high risk of diabetes.
And where authorities formulate policies based on idealized human nature rather than real life, one cannot expect adequate measures to be adopted, whether in terms of general awareness-raising, safe-sex education, outreach to high-risk groups or needle-exchange programs.
"The risk to babies is completely avoidable, and we are using all the levers we can to raise awareness and get hospitals to put policies in place to prevent it, " says Joanne Armstrong, senior medical director and head of Women's Health at Aetna.
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The Howard League report recommends better training of prison staff regarding suicide awareness, that those with serious mental health problems should not be imprisoned and that screening for suicide risk on reception be improved.
We must accept that harnessing the power of Big Data for greater situational awareness and faster reaction to threats is the foundation of an offensive approach, enabling businesses to manage risk to acceptable levels and ultimately put the balance of control back firmly in the hands of security practitioners.
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