Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2006. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Douglas S. Cairns. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-125).

Bibliography: leaves 101-104. Explores risk assessment of dams, a fundamental approach for dam safety measurement, providing a base on which all safety assessment and any appropriate regulation should be developed. Includes an overview of the relevant literature; an example of the application of this method by the South Australia Water Corporation; and it is also applied to the Wadi Al Jizzi Recharge Dam in the Sultanate of Oman. Conclusions and recommendations are presented on the applicability of risk assessment of dams method in the Sultanate of Oman.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Glenn Washer. Includes bibliographical references.

M.Ing. / It is of cardinal importance to accept that failure is a fundamental part of every day life. The difference is however, that one does not only need to learn from ones own failures, but also from others’ failures. This is similar to the situation of not working harder, but working smarter. There are several factors within the project environment that can cause a project to fail, but once these factors have been identified the project manager can implement “preventive maintenance” to ensure that these factors do not affect the project. Further investigations on a recently failed project and questionnaires set-up by the author confirm the factors contributing to project failure as discussed in the literature case study. One way to manage these factors is by means of proper project management and risk management, which is a sub-set of project management. This dissertation highlights certain problem areas that can hinder project success and provides recommendations to achieve project success.

The number of corporate failures in South Africa fluctuates greatly over time, and the characteristics of these fluctuations have not been investigated sufficiently. This paper examines the trends in corporate failures, specifically for small medium and micro enterprise (SMMEs) and private companies in South Africa, with a particular focus on identifying the dynamic features of the series and associated macroeconomic variables movements. We examine the interactions between corporate failures and macroeconomic aggregates, and specifically the accounts of policy-induced changes in the macroeconomy for the observed fluctuations of South African business failures in the period 1994–2009. This research investigates both the short-run and long-run dynamic linkages between corporate failures in South Africa and selected macroeconomic variables by employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound test. Time series Error Correction Model (ECM) estimates suggest that macroeconomic risk factors are related to firm failures in the same direction both in the short run and the long run, and that adjustment to steady state path is quite quick. A regression model is also estimated with a dummy variable included to decipher the corporate failure rates during the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. The results demonstrate that macroeconomic aggregates exert differential impacts on corporate failures both in the short run and in the long run. The study also reveals that corporate failure rates in South Africa are significantly and positively associated with the average lending rate, inflation rate, new corporation, exchange rate, 2007-2009 financial crisis, and inversely related to gross domestic product (GDP) and money supply both in the short run and long-run. In general, the results show expected and consistent relationships between shocks on economic variables and corporate failures.

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Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88)

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88)