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Social tipping points and adaptation limits in the context of systemic risk: Concepts, models and governance

Frontiers in Climate, 2022
Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.
Sirkku Juhola, Tatiana Filatova, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Reinhard Mechler, Jürgen Scheffran, Pia-Johanna Schweizer   +5 more
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Market Discipline and Systemic Risk [PDF]

Management Science, 2020
We analyze a general equilibrium model in which financial institutions generate endogenous systemic risk. Banks optimally select correlated investments and thereby expose themselves to fire-sale risk so as to sharpen their incentives. Systemic risk is therefore a natural consequence of banks’ fundamental role as delegated monitors.
Alan D. Morrison, Ansgar Walther
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Ewing Sarcoma in Infants and Children Under 2 Years of Age: A French Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ewing sarcoma, the second most common primary bone cancer in children, requires intensive treatment that may lead to significant long‐term sequelae, particularly in infants. We retrospectively analyzed data from 1621 French patients treated between 1988 and 2015 within the EW88/93/97 or EE99 trials, focusing on 17 infants diagnosed before 24 ...
Elodie Verdier, Nathalie Cozic, Marie‐Dominique Tabone, Gaelle Pierron, Perrine Marec‐Berard, Sarah Winter, Gabriel Revon‐Rivière, Cyril Lervat, Dominique Plantaz, Marie‐Pierre Castex, Gregory Guimard, Estelle Thebaud, Stephanie Proust, Laure Saumet, Natacha Entz‐Werle, Sophie Taque, Cécile Vérité, Marta Jimenez, Nathalie Gaspar   +18 more
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Estimating Individuals’ Suffering Levels Induced by Disasters via Social Media: A Case Study of the 2023 Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Extreme Rainfall

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Extreme hazard events can severely threaten the well-being of society. To understand their impacts on the well-being of people, social scientists have proposed various indicators related to individuals’ suffering, and analyzed them mainly via post ...
Tianwei Liang, Yongsheng Yang, Lanxue He, Danlan Li, Huan Liu   +4 more
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Artificial neural network for predicting nuclear power plant dynamic behaviors

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021
A Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a complex dynamic system-of-systems with highly nonlinear behaviors. In order to control the plant operation under both normal and abnormal conditions, the different systems in NPPs (e.g., the reactor core components ...
M. El-Sefy, A. Yosri, W. El-Dakhakhni, S. Nagasaki, L. Wiebe   +4 more
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Provider and Parent Perspectives on Prioritizing the “Asking and Monitoring” Pediatric Cancer Psychosocial Standards of Care

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families (“Standards”) are evidence‐based guidelines for psychosocial care in pediatric oncology. Care related to the three “Asking and Monitoring” Standards—Assessment of Psychosocial Needs, Assessment of Financial Needs, and Monitoring Neurocognitive Problems ...
Julia B. Tager, Natalie Koskela‐Staples, Emily M. Pariseau, Michele Scialla, Kimberly Buff, Lori Wiener, Victoria Sardi Brown, Anne E. Kazak, Kimberly S. Canter   +8 more
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Safety and Effectiveness of a High‐Dose, Tailored Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Protocol: A Joint Pediatric Hematology and Cardiac ICU Quality Improvement Initiative Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric thromboembolism is increasingly encountered in critical care. Systemic thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) facilitates vessel or valve patency, yet pediatric‐specific protocols remain undefined, and safety concerns persist. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a tailored, prolonged systemic tPA
Eran Shostak, Oded Gilad, Yael Feinstein, Sigal Nakav, Ofer Schiller, Joanne Yacobovich   +5 more
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Decadal changes in wind speed have offset and then aggravated the impact of warming on maize production in China since 1980

Nature Communications
Wind is a critical meteorological factor for crop production, yet the effect of its long-term changes on crop yield has not been adequately discussed. Here, we assess the effect of wind on maize yield and production in China with statistical modeling of ...
Zongliang Zhang, Jialu Xu, Yuzhong Zhang, Huimin Zhuang, Shaokun Li, Fulu Tao, Zhao Zhang   +6 more
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Land Use Change in the Russian Far East and Its Driving Factors

Land
This study systematically analyzes land use changes in the Russian Far East from 2000 to 2020, identifying key transformations and their driving factors.
Cong Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Liwei Liu
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Risks in China’s Financial System [PDF]

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2018
Motivated by growing concerns about the risks and instability of China's financial system, this article reviews several commonly perceived financial risks and discusses their roots in China's politico-economic institutions. We emphasize the need to evaluate these risks within China's unique economic and financial systems, in which the state and ...
Song, Zheng (Michael), Xiong, Wei
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