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A Tale of Two Conditions: 50 Years of Chronic Illness and Cancer From a Nursing Perspective
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction In this commentary, I consider the disparity between the care we see as a necessity for cancer patients and the lack of care we afford to many persons with chronic disease. Background I ground my arguments in my own clinical practice and research experiences over a 50‐year period augmented by reference to available literature ...
Sally Thorne
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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Turkey is pursuing three main objectives in the energy sector: enhancing its geopolitical position, expanding its domestic production and renewable energy capacity, and becoming a natural gas hub linking producers from the Middle East, the Caspian region, and Russia to European markets.
Umud Shokri
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region ...
Franziska Leopold +2 more
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Seismic vulnerability analysis of steel buildings in Bogotá, Colombia [PDF]
, 2012 A number of mid-height steel buildings have been erected recently in Bogotá. Their seismic risk might be high, given the new microzonation of Bogotá and the lack of previous studies; remarkably, the response reduction factors were commonly obtained from ...
López Almansa, Francisco +1 more
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Sensitivity of Building Loss Estimates to Major Uncertain Variables [PDF]
, 2002 This paper examines the question of which sources of uncertainty most strongly affect the repair cost of a building in a future earthquake. Uncertainties examined here include spectral acceleration, ground-motion details, mass, damping, structural force ...
Beck, James L. +2 more
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
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Development of Intrinsic Seismic Vulnerability Index (ISVI) for assessing roadway system and its assets framework. [PDF]
MethodsX, 2022 El-Maissi AM +3 more
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Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards [PDF]
, 2010 The availability of building stock inventory data and demographic information is an important requirement for risk assessment studies when attempting to predict and estimate losses due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, storms, floods or tsunamis ...
Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel +5 more
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Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Daniel Salau Rogei
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Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazard: Bucharest Case Study, Romania
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017 Recent seismic events show that urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to seismic damage, which leads to unprecedented levels of risk. Cities are complex systems and as such their analysis requires a good understanding of the interactions between space ...
Iuliana Armaş +3 more
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