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Perceptions of Governance (Il)Legitimacy Mediate Climate Change Adaptation in the Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governance is a well‐known dimension of adaptive capacity across various frameworks, however specific links between perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy and adaptive capacity remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we investigate connections between climate change adaptation and perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy using focus ...
Emma D. Rice   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the time to ruin and the deficit at ruin in a risk model with double-sided jumps

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In this paper, we consider a jump diffusion risk model, which consists of a Brownian motion, phase type distributed positive claims and general negative claims. The distributions of the time to ruin and the deficit at ruin will be studied by using Rouché'
Jiang, Yiming, Zhang, Wei, Xing, Xiaoyu
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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Postoperative outcomes and predictors of functional sequelae following hemispheric surgery in Rasmussen's encephalitis: A retrospective cohort study from the global pediatric epilepsy surgery registry

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare and progressive, immune‐mediated epileptic encephalopathy characterized by drug‐resistant seizures and neurological decline. While hemispheric disconnection (HD) is the gold standard treatment for effective seizure control, this procedure carries significant risk of permanent neurological ...
Krish Nair   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical and numerical approach to corporate operational risk modelling [PDF]

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Although The New Basel Accord gives the methodology for managing operational risk in financial institutions, corporate risk seems not to be recognized enough. In this Ph.D.
Pawel Mista
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