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, 1993 The word neither diffident nor ostentatious ... The common word exact without vulgarity, The formal word precise but not pedantic.
McHoul, A.
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Natural disasters: blessings in disguise? [PDF]
, 2011 This study examines the impact of natural disasters on market returns and on several industries that are likely to be affected by the disasters. We find that different natural disasters have different impacts on the returns of the market and on those of ...
Koerniadi, Hardjo +2 more
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Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021 In this editorial, the Editor considers four domains of disaster in health professions education; the scholarship of disasters, disasters in the conduct of scholarly inquiry, disasters in the presentation of the results of scholarly inquiry, and disasters flowing from the misinterpretation or misappropriation of scholarly activity.
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Impact of culture towards disaster risk reduction [PDF]
, 2010 Number of natural disasters has risen sharply worldwide making the risk of disasters a global concern. These disasters have created significant losses and damages to humans, economy and society.
Adato M. +38 more
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Wars, disasters and kidneys [PDF]
, 2014 This paper summarizes the impact that wars had on the history of nephrology, both worldwide and in the Ghent Medical Faculty notably on the definition, research and clinical aspects of acute kidney injury.
Lameire, Norbert
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Contradictions inherent in the management of natural and industrial disasters [PDF]
, 2011 These days people keep wondering whether the world is more dangerous now than it was before. Do natural disasters really happen more frequently or is it just that the damage they cause that has become greater? The situation is not quite clear.
Kerekes, Sándor
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Special report: silent disasters. [PDF]
, 2007 Disasters occur not only in war and conflict or after natural events, such as earthquakes or floods. In fact, the death of hundreds of thousands of children in Niger every year, often for treatable conditions, could just as well qualify as a disaster ...
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Challenges in Creating a Disaster Resilient Built Environment [PDF]
, 2014 With the increase in occurrences of high impact disasters, the concept of risk reduction and resilience is widely recognised. Recent disasters have highlighted the exposure of urban cities to natural disasters and emphasised the need of making cities ...
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Post- and peritraumatic stress in disaster survivors: An explorative study about the influence of individual and event characteristics across different types of disasters [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Examination of existing research on posttraumatic adjustment after disasters suggests that survivors’ posttraumatic stress levels might be better understood by investigating the influence of the characteristics of the event experienced on ...
Alexander D +12 more
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Mental health services required after disasters: Learning from the lasting effects of disasters [PDF]
, 2012 Extent: 13p.Disasters test civil administrations’ and health services’ capacity to act in a flexible but well-coordinated manner because each disaster is unique and poses unusual challenges.
McFarlane, A., Williams, R.
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