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Understanding the experience in the healthcare system of non-migrant and migrant frequent users of the emergency department in French-speaking Switzerland: a comparative qualitative study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Background Previous research revealed the vulnerability of frequent users of emergency department (FUED) because of concomitant medical, psychological and social issues.
Patrick Bodenmann   +5 more
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Vulnerabilities and responsibilities: dealing with monsters in computer security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze information security assessment in terms of cultural categories and virtue ethics, in order to explain the cultural origin of certain types of security vulnerabilities, as well as to enable a proactive ...
Consoli, L., Pieters, W.
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Exercise and Physical Activity eHealth in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study of Effects on Motivations, Behavior Change Mechanisms, and Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
ObjectivesThe aims of this research were (1) to compare the levels of physical activity of eHealth users and non-users, (2) to determine the effects of these technologies on motivations, and (3) to establish the relationship that could exist between ...
Gonzalo Marchant   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Being vulnerable [PDF]

open access: yeseLife, 2020
Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.
openaire   +3 more sources

Vulnerable banks [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Financial Economics, 2011
When a bank experiences an adverse shock to its equity capital, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. The price impact of the fire sale may impact other institutions with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts for this effect.
Greenwood, Robin   +2 more
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European Digital Libraries: Web Security Vulnerabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the web vulnerability challenges at European library web sites and how these issues can affect the data protection of their patrons.
Kuzma, Joanne
core   +2 more sources

Vulnerability, Vulnerable Populations, and Policy [PDF]

open access: yesKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2004
[ 411 ] Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 14, No. 4, 411–425 © 2004 by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Produced at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Box 571212, Washington, DC 20057-1212. The Center operates on a contract with the National Library of
openaire   +2 more sources

Les digues littorales à l’heure de la GEMAPI : une opportunité de gestion intégrée face au risque de submersion ? Le cas de l’estuaire de la Dives et de la Baie des Veys

open access: yesBulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français, 2022
The delegation of management of aquatic environments and flood prevention to public inter-municipal cooperation establishments to January 1, 2018 resulted in a deep recomposition of the system of actors in charge of the dikes, and a questioning of ...
Tristan Douillard   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vulnerable Growth

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2019
We study the conditional distribution of GDP growth as a function of economic and financial conditions. Deteriorating financial conditions are associated with an increase in the conditional volatility and a decline in the conditional mean of GDP growth, leading the lower quantiles of GDP growth to vary with financial conditions and the upper quantiles ...
Adrian, Tobias   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Vulnerable bodies, vulnerable systems [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Law in Context, 2015
In this paper we examine the concept of vulnerability as it relates to the materiality of systems, the exclusion of human physical corporeality, and social exclusion in Luhmann’s theory of social autopoiesis. We ask whether a concept of vulnerability can be included in autopoiesis in order to better conceptualise social exclusion and the excluded, with
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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