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Vulnerability assessment of the karst aquifer feeding the Pertuso Spring (Central Italy): comparison between different applications of COP method [PDF]

, 2017
Karst aquifers vulnerability assessment and mapping are important tools for improved sustainable management and protection of karst groundwater resources.
DE FILIPPI, FRANCESCO MARIA, Ferranti, Flavia, Sappa, Giuseppe   +2 more
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Prevalence of truancy among school-going adolescents in three South Asian countries: association with potential risk and protective factors

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2023
We examined the prevalence and evaluated the associated risk and protective factors of adolescent school truancy through sex-stratified models by analysing 7562 adolescent data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) of three South ...
Md. Khalid Hasan, Helal Uddin, Tahmina Bintay Younos, Nur A Habiba Mukta, Dilara Zahid   +4 more
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Dairy farmers’ knowledge and perception of climate change in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2022
Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dairy farmers about climate change in dairy farms in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Yanga Simamkele Diniso, Leocadia Zhou, Ishmael Festus Jaja   +2 more
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Vulnerable Growth

American 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, Boyarchenko, Nina, Giannone, Domenico   +2 more
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New type of vulnerability curve gives insight in the hydraulic capacitance and conductivity of the xylem [PDF]

, 2013
Drought vulnerability of trees and other woody plants is much debated in the context of climate change, which creates a high interest in understanding plant water relations.
Baert, Annelies, Bogaerts, Jan, Kips, Lies, Steppe, Kathy, Vergeynst, Lidewei   +4 more
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Vulnerable bodies, vulnerable systems [PDF]

International 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, Webb, Tom   +1 more
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Tidal Ellipses Analysis Based on Flow Model Hydrodynamic Data Acquisition in Mandeh Bay, West Sumatera

JGEET: Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment and Technology, 2019
Mandeh Bay is threatened by sedimentation issue caused by the rapid development of marine tourism area which strongly impacts to the environmental degradation.
Ulung Jantama Wisha, Ruzana Dhiauddin, Wisnu Arya Gemilang   +2 more
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Efficient Computations of a Security Index for False Data Attacks in Power Networks [PDF]

, 2013
The resilience of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for electric power networks for certain cyber-attacks is considered. We analyze the vulnerability of the measurement system to false data attack on communicated measurements.
Hendrickx, Julien M., Johansson, Karl Henrik, Jungers, Raphael M., Sandberg, Henrik, Sou, Kin Cheong   +4 more
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Research on Natural Gas Leakage and Explosion Mechanisms in a Container House

Buildings
As unconventional building structures, container houses are now widely used in urban tourism to create characteristic buildings. Nowadays, natural gas accidents occur frequently in cities and towns; however, the development of laws and influencing ...
Yonghong Gao, Yapeng Duan, Runmei Fu, Hao Wu, Zicong Wang, Dongyang Li, Liqiang Zhou   +6 more
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In Older Adults, Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy Are Associated with Verbal Fluency, Reasoning, and Prospective Memory (Moderated by Socioeconomic Position)

Brain Sciences, 2022
Despite evidence that stress relates negatively to cognitive functioning in older adults, little is known how appraisal of stress and socioeconomic meso-level factors influence different types of cognitive functions in older adults.
Ulrike Rimmele, Nicola Ballhausen, Andreas Ihle, Matthias Kliegel   +3 more
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