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Assessing the link between social capital and health outcomes in the Italian regions: An empirical analysis

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract An extensive literature demonstrates a positive relationship between social capital and health. However, empirical analyses within the Italian context remain limited. This study contributes to the existing literature by expanding the empirical evidence on this topic for Italy, employing an ecological approach.
Maria Alessandra Antonelli, Giorgia Marini   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Numerical Modelling Study on the Potential Role of Tsunamis in the Biblical Exodus

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2015
The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the ...
José M. Abril, Raúl Periáñez
doaj   +1 more source

From a ‘patchwork of platforms’ to the platformized school? The changing nature of data infrastructures in education

British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines recent trends in the data infrastructures of Australian schools. Data interoperability has become integral to school operations as it enables data to flow between the array of applications that are used by the school and the broader school system by using a standardized format.
Luci Pangrazio
wiley   +1 more source

SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE M-9 TSUNAMI EVENT BETWEEN RAMESWARAM AND THOOTHUKUDI, GULF OF MANNAR, SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA [PDF]

Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2006
On 26th December, 2004, a massive earthquake occurred NW of Sumatra in the seismically active zone close to Sunda Trench at a water depth of about 1300m and with an epicenter located at a shallow depth of 10km below the ocean floor.
S.R.Singarasubramanian, M.V.Mukesh, K.Manoharan, S.Murugan, D.Bakkiaraj, A.John Peter, P.Seralathan   +6 more
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Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa.
Daniel A. Cossey, Maria Urbańska, Ronaldo Sousa, Juergen Geist, Anna Maria Labecka, Şebnem Atasaral, Maciej Bonk, Liliya Bylyna, Frank P. L. Collas, Daniel Daill, Andreas H. Dobler, Noé Ferreira‐Rodríguez, Dariusz Halabowski, Martina I. Ilarri, Jasna Lajtner, Jon H. Mageroy, Evelyn A. Moorkens, Javier Morales, William H. Morgan, Grégory Motte, Keiko Nakamura, Paz Ondina, Martin Österling, Małgorzata Ożgo, Momir Paunović, Vincent Prié, Maja Raković, Larysa Shevchuk, Spase Shumka, Mikhail O. Son, Jouni Taskinen, Frankie Thielen, Henn Timm, Jelena Tomović, Dariusz Ulikowski, Gorazd Urbanič, Simone Varandas, Agnieszka Izolda Wasilewska, Niklas Wengström, David C. Aldridge   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional tsunami hazard assessment for the communities of Kasaan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Pelican, Point Baker, and Point Protection in Southeast Alaska [PDF]

, 2020
E. N. Suleimani, Dmitry Nicolsky, J.B. Salisbury, M. E. West   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Elie Menassa, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overreliance on Orthographic Similarity in L2‐Japanese Conceptual Processing by L1‐Chinese Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Orthographic and phonological similarities between first (L1) and second (L2) languages can facilitate L2 processing. Particularly, L1‐Chinese learners of L2‐Japanese can benefit from the shared morphosyllabic Chinese characters (Japanese kanji/Chinese hanzi) because of their similar orthographies.
Xuehan Zhao, Kexin Xiong, Sachiko Kiyama
wiley   +1 more source

VOLCANIC TSUNAMI GENERATING SOURCE MECHANISMS IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN REGION [PDF]

Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2004
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, volcanic island flank failures and underwater slides have generated numerous destructive tsunamis in the Caribbean region.
George Pararas-Carayannis
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A formulation and a metaheuristic approach for the clustered vehicle routing problem with d‐relaxed priority rule

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates an extension of the vehicle routing problem in which, in addition to minimizing the distance traveled, the sequencing of customer visits is subject to precedence constraints that impose visiting priorities among customers.
Eduardo dos Santos Teixeira, Silvio Alexandre de Araujo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source