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Risk Assessment and Interventions for Individuals at Risk of Osteoporotic Fractures
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Older adults, especially with low bone mass, hyperkyphosis or vertebral fractures (OVF), and individual with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at increased risk of fragility fractures. Individuals with SCI and OVFs are subgroups ... -
Risk Assessment in Entrepreneurship
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-24)This PhD dissertation applies the science of decision making to management, specifically entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research is to better understand entrepreneurial behaviour under condition of Knightian ... -
Risk Assessment of a Water Supply System under Climate Variability: A Stochastic Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-28)In this study, a model is developed to assess risk to a municipal water supply system under the influence of population growth and climate change. To incorporate the uncertainly in water use, a model which combines time ... -
Risk associated with H2S evolution in sour aquifers during CO2 injection
(Elsevier, 2011)Many aquifers suitable for CO2 sequestration contain measurable concentration of dissolved non-hydrocarbon species. In this paper, the compositional modelling of the CO2 injection into aquifers that contain dissolved ... -
A Risk Based Approach to Module Tolerance Specification
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)This research investigates tolerance strategies for modular systems on a project specific basis. The objective of the proposed research is to form a guideline for optimizing the construction costs/risks with the aim of ... -
RISK COMPREHENSION OF ONLINE COLORECTAL CANCER INFORMATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH NUMERACY
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-03)Introduction: Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer among Canadians and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. In this age of chronic disease and shared decision-making, individuals are encouraged and ... -
Risk Factors for Falls in Home Care and Long-Term Care Settings: A Focus on Dementia and Parkinson's Disease
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)It is well established that there are many intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors associated with falls in older adults. Less well-known is what risk factors predict falls in more vulnerable populations, such as those with ... -
Risk Factors for Marijuana Use among Russian and Canadian Adolescents: a Comparative Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-13)The increasing use of toxic substances is one of the most serious problems in today’s society. Recent tendencies such as widening of the variety of drugs available, intensity of drug circulation, and the decrease in age ... -
Risk Management with Basis Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-19)Basis risk occurs naturally in a variety of financial and actuarial applications, and it introduces additional complexity to the risk management problems. Current literature on quantifying and managing basis risk is still ... -
Risk Management with Non-Convex and Non-Monotone Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-24)This thesis studies two types of problems, the theory of risk functionals and the risk sharing problem. We put a special focus on a class of non-monotone law-invariant risk functionals, called the signed Choquet integrals. The ... -
Risk Measure Approaches to Partial Hedging and Reinsurance
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)Hedging has been one of the most important topics in finance. How to effectively hedge the exposed risk draws significant interest from both academicians and practitioners. In a complete financial market, every ... -
Risk Measurement under Dependence Structure Ambiguity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)In this thesis, we work on a generalization of the entropy regularized optimal transport problem, with the objective function being (spectral) risk measures. We accomplish three goals: to present the corresponding dual ... -
Risk Measures and Capital Allocation Principles for Risk Management
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-21)Risk measures (or premium principles) and capital allocation principles play a signi cant role in risk management. Regulators and companies in the nancial markets usually adopt an appropriate risk measure, for example, ... -
Risk Measures and Optimal Reinsurance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-21)In this thesis, we study the optimal reinsurance design problem and extend the classical model in three different directions: (1) In the first framework, we add the additional assumption that the reinsurer can default ... -
Risk Measures of Stop-loss and Limited Loss Random Variables under Model Uncertainty with Applications in Insurance
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)In this thesis, our focus is on the optimization of reinsurance design, accounting for the influence of model uncertainty. The following chapters outline our approach: In Chapter 2, we identify the worst-case distributions ... -
Risk Messages about HPV, Cervical Cancer and the HPV Vaccine Gardasil: A Content Analysis of U.S. and Canadian National Newspaper and News Magazine Articles
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is a significant advancement in women’s health that garnered both positive and negative media coverage. Since public opinion and population uptake of the vaccine can be influenced by media ... -
Risk Minimization in Power System Expansion and Power Pool Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-21)Centralized power system planning covers time windows that range from ten to thirty years. Consequently, it is the longest and most uncertain part of power system economics. One of the challenges that power system ... -
Risk Modelling in Shariah Compliant Investment and Insurance Products
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-28)The main objective of this study is to develop a risk model for Shariah (Islamic) compliant investment and insurance. Islamic finance is a part of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) that incorporates religious ethics. ... -
The risk of fragility fractures in new users of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors compared to sulfonylureas and other anti-diabetic drugs: A cohort study
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Aims Mixed evidence exists for the effect of incretin-based therapies on osteoporosis in type-2 diabetes. Therefore, we conducted a cohort study to determine the association between dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors ... -
The risk of fragility fractures in new users of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors compared to sulfonylureas and other anti-diabetic drugs: A cohort study
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Aims Mixed evidence exists for the effect of incretin-based therapies on osteoporosis in type-2 diabetes. Therefore, we conducted a cohort study to determine the association between dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors ...