Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

Extreme poverty is a major cause, and predictor, of violence.

Academic research has shown that the national ACSI score is a strong predictor of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, and an even stronger predictor of Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) growth.

Similarly, other studies have explored the extent to which shared leadership can predict a team's effectiveness or performance, and have found it to be a significant predictor, and often a better predictor than vertical leadership.

In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

Although history is often a good predictor of future trends, every now and then something fundamental changes that makes for a new pattern.

Results of spirometry are also a good predictor of the future progress of the disease but not as good as the BODE index.

For example, in a statistical linear model, it is assumed that a relationship is linear in the parameters, but it may be nonlinear in the predictor variables.

But whatever measures of political qualities and ownership separation we use, the index of employment protection appears to be the best predictor of ownership separation in the wealthy West.

One study that directly compared a type instrument (the MBTI) to a trait instrument (the NEO PI) found that the trait measure was a better predictor of personality disorders.

This length of education in the L1 (language 1, first language), was the strongest predictor of both the children's competence and gains in L2, English, and of their school achievement.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

Risk reduction

Risk factors

And while there is moral hazard risk, there is also meltdown risk.

From this followed an official obligation to treat all types of risk in the monetary union bank risk or government risk as identical.

The point at which credit risk becomes exchange rate redenomination risk is ambiguous.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

Assessment of risk

Africa at Risk

Sovereign Environmental Risk

Risky Risk Management

States of Risk

The Bonus Risk

The Risk Tsunami

Systems at Risk

Youth at risk

Disaster risk reduction

Underlying Risk Factors

(v) Risk management.

This volume of assets allows the Fund to expand its investment frontier and requires it to build up a risk control mechanism, to control comprehensively not only investment risk but also operational risk and technology risk.

Fortunately, there is little reason to believe such dire predictions, or that the market gyrations that have been driving recent headlines represent anything more than short term volatility. After all, equity price movements are a poor predictor of the real economy s performance.

The risk premia that financially distressed countries must pay remain high and signal continuing risk.

But it was either risk getting killed by a gun or risk dying of hunger.

(e) Create a risk and compliance section for better risk control of investments and operations

Taking Systemic Risk Seriously

This algorithm quantifies risk.

That risk is substantial.

Europe s High Risk Gamble

All policies entail risk.

China s Hidden Debt Risk

Material foreseeable risk factors