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World Risk Society and Constructing Cosmopolitan Realities: A Bourdieusian Critique of Risk Society [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Current global crises and threats have revealed the growing implications of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society. Rather than being a theory of risk, risk society theory is more a social theory of the new social world and modernity.
Abbas Jong
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Examination of the factors that influence public perception of mythically-based human behavior in disaster conditions [PDF]
Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2020 Starting from the importance of risk perception for taking certain preventive measures to protect people and their property from disasters, the subject of the research is to examine the factors influencing public perception of mythically-based ...
Cvetković Vladimir, Jovanović Marina
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PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATURAL DISASTERS
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2021 The aim of the research is the examination of the factors influencing the public perception of climate change and its impact on natural disasters. This paper presents the results of quantitative research regarding testing the central hypothesis where ...
Vladimir M. Cvetković, Lazar Grbić
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Risk Society and Distopia / Androidler Elektrikli Koyun Düşler mi? Risk Toplumu ve Distopya [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2022 This study seeks to investigate the work titled “Do The Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” a cult science fiction work written by Philip K. Dick in 1968, in terms of Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society” theory.
Halil Özdemir*, Sadullah Seyidoğlu**
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023 Tensile tests were conducted for notched round-bar specimens to acquire the limit conditions of local failure, which is ductile failure after large local deformation for three types of steel, SGV480, SPV490 and SGV410, for nuclear containment structures.
Hitoshi NAKAMURA +2 more
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Features of the social determination of mass diseases in the risk society [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2022 Introduction. The subject of the study is the social determinants of mass diseases of non-infectious origin and the traumatic nature of social changes taking place in modern society.
Zhukovskaya, Natalia Yurievna +1 more
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023 A series of tensile tests were conducted for notched plate specimens whose shapes are similar to the pressure shell to clarify the local failure characteristics for the steel nuclear containment.
Hitoshi NAKAMURA +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background There are about 70 small islands in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, of less than 300 Km2 and 5000 inhabitants each, comprising a total population of more than 75,000 individuals with geographical and socioeconomic characteristics of special ...
Chris J. Kapelios +6 more
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First record of leucism in the Spix’s disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor (Chiroptera, Thyropteridae), in Belize [PDF]
Neotropical Biology and ConservationAlthough chromatic disorders are widely reported in the animal kingdom, few reports of true leucism have been published in Neotropical bats. In this note we report our observations of a leucistic Thyroptera tricolor Spix (Spix’s Disc-winged Bat) in the ...
Vanessa I. Martin +3 more
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Risks, 2020 In the context of the digitization of delinquent activities, perpetrated via the internet, the question of the most appropriate means of crime prevention and crime repression is once again being raised.
Barlatier Jerome
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