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Development of a Scale for Measuring Cognitive Biases Related to Risk-Taking Among Firefighters: The Five Cognitive Bias Risk Scale (5 CBR-S)

open access: yesFire
This study aimed to develop the Five Cognitive Biases in Risk-Taking Scale (5 CBR-S) to measure five cognitive biases associated with risk-taking: overconfidence, illusion of control, belief in the law of small numbers, escalation of commitment, and ...
Sébastien Lhardy   +2 more
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Мониторинг состояния экономической безопасности в контуре государственного управления России: современная теория и практика

open access: yesУправленческие науки, 2017
Introduction, Purpose. One of the major tasks in the system of the country economic safety support is the monitoring the economy status provided by the Russian Federation Strategy of Economic Safety Support until 2030.
S. A. Pobyvaev   +4 more
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Measuring Vulnerability [PDF]

open access: yesThe Economic Journal, 2003
Traditional poverty measures neglect several important dimensions of household welfare. In this paper we construct a measure of "vulnerability" which allows us to quantify the welfare loss associated with poverty as well as the loss associated with any of a variety of different sources of uncertainty.
Ligon, Ethan, Schechter, Laura
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Data Source Sensitivity in Solar Radiation Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) for Five Different Regions of Brazil

open access: yesTellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
In this article, we examine how sensitive the methodology for calculating a “Typical Meteorological Year” (TMY) is to changes in the source of the meteorological data series and the weighting factors used. Three different sources of meteorological data –
Anna Tippett   +5 more
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Vulnerability to water shortages in the 21st Century’s arid and semi-arid American West

open access: yesL'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2015
Scientific studies agree to stress the growing risk of water shortages in the arid and semi-arid American West. Over the next fifty years, at least part of the local population will likely face water shortages which will call into question the ...
Nicolas Barbier
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Complementary medicine among individuals experiencing homelessness in Switzerland: a quantitative and qualitative descriptive study

open access: yesBMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
Background People experiencing homelessness (PEH) are disproportionately affected by health issues yet remain underserved by the health care system. Emerging findings suggest that complementary medicine (CM) approaches might help address the low access ...
Véronique S. Grazioli   +12 more
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Vulnerability Assessment of Ubiquitous Cities Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

open access: yesFuture Internet, 2020
Urbanization is a challenge faced by most countries worldwide and leads to several problems. Due to rapid communication capabilities, conforming the megacities into Ubiquitous cities (U-cities) seems to be a potential solution to mitigate the problems ...
Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq   +2 more
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Genome instability and crosstalk with the immune response

open access: yesGenome Medicine
Genome instability, tumour-promoting inflammation, and immune escape are three distinct hallmarks of cancer. However, accumulating scientific and clinical evidence over the past decade have uncovered a multifaceted interplay of complex dynamic network of
Roman M. Chabanon   +3 more
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ASSESSING NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS IN SAFEGUARDING CITIZENS, UTILITIES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS

open access: yesJournal of Social Sciences
Vulnerable places are usually the targets of terrorist attacks everywhere in the world. The scenario is quite the same in Nigeria. Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in Nigeria have attacked ordinary citizens and infrastructure like schools and ...
OLALERE, Usamotu Basheer, TUNDE, Agara
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Investigating the Security of OpenPLC: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Mitigation Solutions

open access: yesIEEE Access
Open-source Programmable Logic Controller (OpenPLC) software is designed to be vendor-natural and run on almost any computer or low-cost embedded devices e.g., Raspberry Pi, Ardunio, and other controllers.
Wael Alsabbagh   +2 more
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