Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2020 BackgroundOver recent decades there has been considerable mental health research in Sierra Leone but little on local conceptualisations of mental health conditions.
Rebecca Horn +5 more
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Barriers and Opportunities for WHO ‘Best Buys’ Non-Communicable Disease Policy Adoption and Implementation From a Political Economy Perspective: A Complexity Systematic Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementBackground Improving the adoption and implementation of policies to curb non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major challenge for better global health.
Giulia Loffreda +7 more
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The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) [PDF]
, 2022 Several problems related to violence, grievances, and states’ lack of legitimacy and capacity to manage economic, social, and political issues are clustered together as an interactive structure in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region.
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Fragility, conflict, and migration
, 2023 Fragility, Conflict, and Migration addresses challenges to livelihood, food, and climate security faced by some of the most vulnerable populations worldwide.
Kosec, Katrina; Laderach, Peter; and Ruckstuhl, Sandra +1 more
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Extending displacement-based earthquake loss assessment (DBELA) for the computation of fragility curves [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents a new procedure to derive fragility functions for populations of buildings that relies on the displacement-based earthquake loss assessment (DBELA) methodology.
SILVA MOURA PINHO, RUI JORGE +7 more
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Seismic Fragility Functions for Non-Seismically Designed RC Structures Considering Pounding Effects
Buildings, 2021 The proposed study develops fragility functions for non-seismically designed reinforced concrete structures considering different pounding configurations.
Hossameldeen Mohamed, Xavier Romão
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The Fragility of Healing [PDF]
Ethos, 2001 This article explores a paradox—the simultaneous cultivation and suppression of "healing dramas" by pediatric rehabilitation therapists. Dramatic moments are defined as ones in which the routine exercises and treatment activities of therapeutic practice are transformed into narrative plots. These improvisational plots involve multiple characters, risks,
Cheryl, Mattingly, Mary, Lawlor
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of ...
Graziella Bertocchi, Andrea Guerzoni
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Evaluation of Damage Limit State for RC Frame Based on FE Modeling
Buildings, 2021 Many damage limit states have been defined to characterize the extent of damages occurred in RC frame. Some of the damage limit states are defined by models that relate the limit states with the control points. Both control points and the limit state are
Stefanus Adi Kristiawan +3 more
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Spectral—Fragile—(Un)homely: The Haunting Presence of Francesca Woodman in the House and Space2 Series [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the House and Space2 photographic series, Francesca Woodman captures the environments that may be considered disruptive; still, it is a female model—in her inconstant poses, always partially blurred or hidden—that holds the viewer’s attention.
Anna Kisiel
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