What is Risk

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It is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has an effect on at least one of the project's objectives. Objectives may include scope, timing, cost and quality. Learn more in: Model Based on Ontological Engineering as Support for Stakeholder Management

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The probability of an undesired event happening. Learn more in: Managing Risk in Global Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security and Sustainability

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The probability of a harmful action (e.g. damage, injury, death or illness) associated with a hazard. Learn more in: Creating a Climate of Fear: The Case of Las Vegas

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Risk is the possibility of loss or injury; someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard. Learn more in: Knowledge Sharing and IT/Business Partnership: An Integrated View of Risk Management

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connotes a possible negative impact to something of value. It symbolises the probability of a loss. Learn more in: Diffusion of Innovations Theory: Inconsistency Between Theory and Practice

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The likelihood or probability of some consequence seen as undesirable, although the term is often used synonymously with “downside.” Risk exposure is calculated as the probability of an undesirable consequence multiplied by its (negative) magnitude. Learn more in: Managing E-Collaboration Risks in Business Process Outsourcing

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The net negative impact of the exercise of vulnerability. Learn more in: Security of Cloud Computing

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A risk is an event in the present that will become a problem in the future. Learn more in: Problem Solving and Risk Management Methodology: Feedback From Experiences With the Use of Taxonomies

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Combination of consequences and probabilities of undesirable event. Learn more in: Industry Process Safety: Major Accident Risk Assessment

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An unsafe situation or condition that practicing journalists are susceptible to get involved in, due to antecedents or circumstances associated with his or her newsgathering job. Learn more in: Making Sense of Journalists' Safety and Media Freedom in Egypt Between Different Types of Threats and the Ruling Legislative Context: Multi-Analytical study

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An estimation of the degree of exposure to a threat that may occur on one or more assets causing damage to an organization. Learn more in: Dynamic Risk Assessment in IT Environments: A Decision Guide

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Risk is the potential harmful or undesirable consequences (downsides) that might arise in the future from a decision or course of action. Examples in the context of ITO include the release of confidential data, loss of organizational knowledge, and reduced business flexibility. Learn more in: An Overview of IT Outsourcing in Public-Sector Agencies

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The chance of injury, damage, or loss. Learn more in: Reliability Growth Models for Defect Prediction

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The measure of the chance of harm occurring ( Mann & Blunden, 2010 ). Learn more in: A Framework for Ameliorating Risk in Australian University Crowdfunding

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The level of impact on agency operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), agency assets, or individuals resulting from the operation of an information system, given the potential impact of a threat and the likelihood of that threat occurring. Learn more in: Requirements and Life Cycle Model-Based Assessment of NPP I&C Systems Cyber Security and Safety

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Is the probability that something undesired happens combined with the expected loss associated with the event. Learn more in: Threat Modeling and Secure Software Engineering Process

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Anything that can have a minor, major or severe effect and has a probability of occurring. Learn more in: Risk Assessment: Knowledge Management Paradigms, Big Data, and Aviation Policy Making

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The potential for an unwanted or adverse outcome resulting from an incident, event, or occurrence, as determined by the likelihood that a particular threat will exploit a particular vulnerability, with the associated consequences. Learn more in: National Security Policy and Strategy and Cyber Security Risks

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Situation involving exposure to danger and/or loss. Learn more in: Quantifying Economic Uncertainties and Risks in the Oil and Gas Industry

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An event that causes damage when it occurs (e.g., fire, explosion, flood, etc.). Learn more in: The Importance of Employment Injury Insurance and Protection in Managing Occupational Safety and Health of the Workforce

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The probability that an actual return on an investment will be lower than the expected return. Learn more in: Risk-Based Selection of Portfolio: Heuristic Approach

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Risk is the potential of losing something of value. Values can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction, foreseen or unforeseen. Risk can also be defined as the intentional interaction with uncertainty, which is a potential, unpredictable, immeasurable and uncontrollable outcome. Risk is a consequence of action taken in spite of uncertainty. Learn more in: Adaptation to Climate Change for Sustainable Development: A Survey

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Traditionally is considered to be the likelihood and impact of one or more vulnerabilities being realized. Learn more in: The Challenge of Adequately Defining Technical Risk

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Potential losing or damage perceived which can be real or not. Learn more in: Risk, Terrorism, and Tourism Consumption: The End of Tourism

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Potential danger which is open to the contingency, which means the possibility to be avoided. Learn more in: Tourism Security: A Conceptual Insight

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To take a chance on a possible course of action to achieve a desired result. Learn more in: Current Scenario of Youth Entrepreneurship in India

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Risk is an undesired outcome that has a known or estimated probability of occurrence and impact based on experience or some theory. Learn more in: The Strategic Determinants of Shared Services

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The possibility of any event occurring that may stop businesses or companies from achieving their strategic, financial and operational goals. Learn more in: Fuzzy Logic Approach in Risk Assessment

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A risk is a circumstance or event that has the potential to hinder achievement of objectives or cause harm. Learn more in: Information Systems Risk Management: An Audit and Control Approach

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An uncertainty that an interested event/activity will not meet expected outcome. Learn more in: A Framework for Risk Management in AI System Development Projects

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The probability of a hazard escaping from under control and the severity of the consequences, expressed by the degree of manifestation. Learn more in: Ensuring the Guaranteed Level of Flight Safety: The View of the Future

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Level of exposure to uncertain future events that may damage firms’ financial stability and profitability. Learn more in: Corporate Governance in Portugal: A Literature Review

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A measure of the expected loss of an event. The product of the magnitude of a loss and the probability of its occurrence. Learn more in: Responsibilities and Liabilities with Respect to Catastrophes

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Potential profit or loss arising from a transaction. Learn more in: Analysis of the Determinants of Initial Trust on a Virtual Leader

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Uncertanity about the results of the studies. Learn more in: Health Communication and Social Media: A Study About Using Social Media in Medicine Companies

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Risk is defined as the potential disaster losses, in lives, health status livelihoods, assets and services, which could occur to a particular community or a society over some specified future time period. Disaster risk signifies the possibility of adverse effects in the future ( UNISDR, 2009 AU91: The citation "UNISDR, 2009" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. ). Learn more in: Urban Flood Management Under Changing Climate: A Land Use-Based Study of Kochi Urban Area, Kerala

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Denotes the potential impact on an attribute of value that a future event may cause. In finances, represents the variability of returns a given investment may have. In the context of this chapter, risk is reflected, among other variables, in the uncertainty of the requirements a custom enterprise application may need to fulfill in the future. Learn more in: The Value of Flexibility

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A potential negative result of an action, inaction, or a decision. Learn more in: The Relationship Between Nigerian University Students' Body Literacy Level and Their Awareness of Embodied Learning

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Often defined as the standard deviation of the return on total investment. Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset. Learn more in: Emerging Market Sovereign Debts as a Means for Profit Maximization and Portfolio Diversification

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Possibility to manifest a phenomenon, act, or fact that may cause damage, loss, or may have a negative impact on the activity of an entity. Learn more in: An International Overview of the Electronic Financial System and the Risks Related to It

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is the anticipated troubles while or before adopting an HR SSC Learn more in: HR Shared Service Centers: From Brand Management Towards Success

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Perceptions of uncertainty and adverse consequences of engaging in an activity. Learn more in: Reviewer Motivations, Bias, and Credibility in Online Reviews

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Possibility to achieve the unintended consequences of some events. Learn more in: Managerial Decision-Making Process in the Modern Business Conditions in the EU: Importance of Cultural Influence

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Possibility to manifest a phenomenon, act, or fact that may cause damage, loss, or may have a negative impact on the activity of an entity. Learn more in: Fraud Risk Management for Listed Companies' Financial Reporting

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The probability of a vulnerability being exploited. Learn more in: Cybercrimes Technologies and Approaches

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Is the potential of gaining or losing something of value. Learn more in: Determinants of the Readability and Comprehensibility of Risk Disclosures: Evidence From Portuguese Listed Companies

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The inability to know in detail all the relevant factors of a problem and to forecast with certainty the outcomes of a decision, due to imperfect and incomplete information. Learn more in: IT Resources as Risk Mitigators: The Case of Spanish Bankrupt SMEs

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Is defined as the probability that a threat to exploit the vulnerabilities of property belonging to the organization and thereby cause injury organization. Learn more in: Information Security Risk Management in the European Union

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Is the exposure to liability in any joint venture or shared leadership role. Thus, effective organizational outcome is dependent on the level of performance, reputation, and information shared among joint venture relationships. Learn more in: International Joint Ventures at the Crossroads: Building Leadership Bridges

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The potential consequences associated with the sharing of private information (i.e., sexts), including the possibility of having private information shared with a third party. Learn more in: The Influence of Technology on Privacy Boundary Management in Young Adults' Sexting Relationships: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective

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A form of uncertainty and potential for that uncertainty that could cause damage or loss to the organization. Learn more in: Health, Safety, and Security as a Part of Events Management

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A situation of potential exposure to harm, which may lead to a loss of value in an organization, or a negative impact upon an individual. Learn more in: Visionary Leadership: Learning from Exemplary Organizations

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A potential loss or damage when a threat exploits a vulnerability. Risk is function of threat and vulnerability and impact. Learn more in: Crime and Victimization in Cyberspace: A Socio-Criminological Approach to Cybercrime

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It is a measure of how open assets are against potential threats. Learn more in: A Hybrid Asset-Based IT Risk Management Framework

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It is defined as an imagined or real danger that paces the integrity of the subject or his group in jeopardy. Learn more in: The Epistemology of Tourism Security: Methodological Discussions Revolving Around Tourism Security and Safety

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Risk is a threat, a source of uncertainty, a combination of danger and opportunity. It is perceived in a specific cultural and time context. Learn more in: The Emergence of Biobanks: Between Ethics, Risks, and Governance

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A characteristic of the activity that lies in the fact that the result of the activity is uncertain, and in case of failure, there are adverse consequences. Learn more in: Risk of Business Bankruptcy: The Application of DEA Method – Case Study of Slovak Businesses

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A relationship between probability and impact or consequence of a threat or a situation. It may be positive or negative. Learn more in: Practical Align Overview of the Main Frameworks Used by the Companies to Prevent Cyber Incidents

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Probability of a loss; sometimes, the probability of a loss multiplied by the exposure. Learn more in: IT Continuity in the Face of Mishaps

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It is the expected loss due to uncertain random outcomes. A state of uncertainty where some possible outcomes have an undesired effect or significant loss. Learn more in: Data Guided Public Healthcare Decision Making

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can be defined as a function of probability and magnitude of losses. Learn more in: Nanotechnology Safety and Security: Nanoparticles and Their Impact on the World

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In a limited manner, the decision situation in which the full range of possible outcomes are known with certainty and the probability of their occurrence can be assessed accurately, usually by some objective means (e.g., rolling the dice is a classic risk decision situation). More usually, the probabilities must be assessed subjectively, often based on previous experiences or intuition, and the outcomes themselves may not be fully identifiable. The term “risk” is used commonly to generally define decision situations that are really a combination of classical risk and uncertainty that is, the more normal decision situation in organizations. Learn more in: Risk Management in the Digital Economy

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Implies that a particular activity will not be successfully performed because there is a lack of control over that activity, which can cause consequences and has to be removed from that activity. Learn more in: Supervising System and Business Control of Local Self-Government Units in Performance Audit Function

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The possibility of something failure happening. Learn more in: Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in a Pharmaceutical Production Process With Fuzzy PROMETHEE Method

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A probability or threat of damage, injury, liability, loss, or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, and that may be avoided through preemptive action. Learn more in: Effects of Economic and Political Risks on Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Analysis in MENA Region

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The inability to make perfect forecasts about future facts, e.g. the outcomes of an investment or the consequences of a decision, because available information is incomplete. Learn more in: Financial Risk and Financial Imbalances: Does Information Technology Matter?

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According to ISO 31000:2009, a global risk management standard, authored by the International Standards Organization, risk can be described as the ‘effect of uncertainty on objectives’. In this definition, ‘risk’ is considered as a symmetric concept: with a potential for a gain and a loss. Learn more in: Estimating Risk with Copulas

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The chance of a loss or the degree of probability of such loss. Learn more in: Reliability Engineering Techniques Applied to the Human Failure Analysis Process

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A conceptual device, produced by political vision and consolidated by city's one, through which authority uses power in function of an increasingly worse future scenario. Learn more in: The Immune Space: Monitoring Narratives in Contemporary Pandemic

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Is more than is more than physical damages, financial losses, and criminal sanctions. Using the technologies in contradiction to ethical principles is a techno-ethical risk or ethical risk. There are also speculative risk (if the outcome of ethical actions will bring about gains and unethical actions will yield a loss), dynamic risk (if the chance of occurrence is associated with technological change or change in general including man-made change). Learn more in: Hexa-Dimension Metric, Ethical Matrix, and Cybersecurity

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Degree of probability of a hazard or chance of loss occurrence. Learn more in: Fundamentals for the Challenge of Controlling Risk Through Standardization

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The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger. Learn more in: The Security, Privacy, and Ethical Implications of Social Networking Sites

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An uncertain event or situation that if occurs, may have a positive or negative impact on project´s objectives and/or goals. Learn more in: Project Management Tools and Techniques to Deal With Disruptive Situations in Projects: An Applied Research in the Colombian Context

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Potential of loss, exposure to danger Learn more in: Shapes of Threats in the Global South: An Exploration of Social Imagery

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The possibility of any event occurring that may stop businesses or companies from achieving their strategic, financial and operational goals. Learn more in: Fuzzy Logic Approach in Risk Assessment

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An unsafe situation or condition that a practicing journalist gets involved in due to antecedents or circumstances associated with his or her newsgathering job. Learn more in: Silencing the Media and Chaining the Watchdog: Threats to Journalist Safety During Elections in Nigeria

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Is the potential exposure to an unexpected event or unintended situation or outcome. Learn more in: Internal Control and Assets Management

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An individual or organization’s exposure to a chance of loss or damage. Learn more in: Underwriting Automobile Insurance Using Artificial Neural Networks

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A probability or threat of hazard, damage, loss, or any negative event that is caused by vulnerabilities. Learn more in: The Operational Risk Assessments in Manufacturing Industry

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The unexpected situations that can cause undesirable or negative consequences. Learn more in: Fuzzy Hybrid FMEA for Risk Assessment in Service Industry: An Integrated Intuitionistic Fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS Approach

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Probability of occurrence of a harm, damage and loss. Learn more in: Sustainability, Risk, and Business Intelligence in Supply Chains

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Communication: Interaction process, exchange and dissemination of real-time information to the public about threatening health, social or economic situations. The main purpose of the communication is to support the people at risk and to help informed decisions. Learn more in: Health Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary

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“Risk refers to a possibility of loss, the loss itself, or any characteristic, object, or action that is associated with that possibility” ( Kontio, 2001 ). Learn more in: Project-Based Software Risk Management Approaches

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Effect of uncertainty. Learn more in: Unified Approach to Integrated Food Quality and Safety Management

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Refers to the potential of losing something of value. Learn more in: Using IT-Supported Knowledge Repositories for Succession Planning in SMEs: How to Deal with Knowledge Loss?

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A combination of the likelihood of occurrence and the consequences of the occurrence. Learn more in: Surveillance Design After Initial Detection

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The possibility of an event impacting an organization’s objectives. Usually considered to be composed of the probability combined with the severity or impact of loss events. Mathematically, a risk index can be represented as a convolution integral over the event probability distribution of the impact distribution. In practical approaches, events are often categorized according to causes and business areas and risk scores are estimated on several levels of detail. Learn more in: Emerging Standards and Protocols for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management

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Connotes a possible negative impact to something of value. It symbolises the probability of a loss. Learn more in: Analyzing Diffusion and Value Creation Dimensions of a Business Case of Replacing Enterprise Systems

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A feeling of dread that one will not be able to control an adverse outcome. Learn more in: A Safer Place for Women: Online Education

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Degree of probability of a hazard or chance of loss occurrence. Learn more in: Risk and Uncertainty on Technology and Science Under Bayes and Popper's Statements View

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When the outcome of an event is uncertain, but one is aware of the probabilities of each outcome, the outcome is said to possess risk. Learn more in: Social Media Analytics for Maintaining Financial Stability

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Probability of harm. Learn more in: Strict Liability of Family Leader's Rule vs. Internet Safety Regulations for Content-Related Risks Created by Minors via New Media Applications: The Case of Turkey

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Perceptions of uncertainty and adverse consequences of engaging in an activity. Learn more in: Reviewer Motivations, Bias, and Credibility in Online Reviews

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It is a situation that can influence the project goals and outcomes, depending upon the probability of occurrence and impact of loss. This impact cannot be completely eliminated, but if well managed it can be reduced. Learn more in: Are Risks in IT Global and Local Projects the Same?: Systematic Literature Review of the Last 20 Years

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The uncertainty involved in the possibility of an event occurring. Learn more in: Importance of Risk Management and Risk Management Process

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is the possibility of harm or loss to any software, information, hardware, administrative, physical, communications, or personnel resource. Learn more in: Information Security Policies: Precepts and Practices

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An activity, connected with uncertainty overcoming in a stark choice situation, where there is a possibility of numerical and qualitative estimation of supposed result achievement probability, failure, and divagations from the purpose. Learn more in: The Usage of GIS in Realizing Engineering Education Quality

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The possibility of an adverse situation or event occuring. Learn more in: Health Risk Communication and Media

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The direct or indirect undesirable consequences of controllable or uncontrollable events which affect an individual, a section of individuals or a society at large. Learn more in: Risk and Risk Aversion in Supply Chain Management

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A possibility of being infected with a disease. Learn more in: Malaria: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices in Some Sub-Saharan African Communities

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Probability of an event happening and its negative results (costs) for the related actors. Learn more in: The Effects of Political and Economic Risk on FDI: A Theoretical Survey

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A risk is an activity or event that if it occurs, can cause compromise the success of a project. Learn more in: A Knowledge-Based Risk-Driven Model Supporting Collaborative Online Course Creation

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Effect of uncertainty on objectives. Learn more in: 55000 Implementation Proposal Integrated With a Risk Management System for a Water Utility Case

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Exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance. It refers also to the degree of probability of a loss. The type of loss can be as life, fire, marine disaster, earthquake, etc. Learn more in: Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Risks in the Face of Rapidly Advancing Technologies

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Can be defined as “the diversion of actual result from the expected”. Learn more in: Understanding the Financial Derivatives Instruments

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Potential danger which is open to the contingency, which means the possibility to be avoided. Learn more in: The Theory of Risk Perception Geared to Tourism and Hospitality Fields

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Possibility of a mishap or misfortune, of someone or something suffering harm or damage. Situation in which that possibility can occur. Learn more in: Measurement of the Staff Resilience of the Technological Institute Lázaro Cárdenas

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The possibility of the loss of the reality principle and the disappearance of the public man. Learn more in: The Society of the Digital Swarm: Microblogging and Construction of Subjectivity in Homo Digitalis

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Connotes a possible negative impact to something of value. It symbolises the probability of a loss. Learn more in: A Structured Approach to Developing a Business Case for New Enterprise Information Systems