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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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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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Climate change impacts and adaptations on health of Internally Displaced People (IDP): An exploratory study on coastal areas of Bangladesh

Heliyon, 2020
Every year thousands of people are being displaced in coastal areas of Bangladesh due to natural calamities associated with climate change, known as Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs). Climate change adaptation measures play a significant role in coping
Md. Arif Chowdhury, Md. Khalid Hasan, Md. Robiul Hasan, Tahmina Bintay Younos   +3 more
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Analysis of trends, recurrences, severity and frequency of droughts using standardised precipitation index: Case of OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Jàmbá, 2022
South Africa is susceptible to droughts. However, little documentation exists on drought occurrence in South Africa at national, provincial and municipal administrative boundaries.
Melezwa Khamisa, Simbarashe Ndhleve, Motebang D.V. Nakin, Asabonga Mngeni, Hlekani M. Kabiti   +4 more
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Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States

Natural Hazards, 2021
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas.
Eric Tate, Md Asif Rahman, C. Emrich, C. Sampson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Automated Vulnerability Detection in Source Code Using Deep Representation Learning [PDF]

International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2018
Increasing numbers of software vulnerabilities are discovered every year whether they are reported publicly or discovered internally in proprietary code.
Rebecca L. Russell, Louis Y. Kim, Lei H. Hamilton, Tomo Lazovich, Jacob A. Harer, Onur Ozdemir, Paul M. Ellingwood, M. McConley   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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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The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance

World Development, 2021
This article presents the first systematic investigation of the effects of climate-related vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance and sheds light on a hitherto under-appreciated cost of climate change for climate vulnerable ...
Gerhard Kling, Ulrich Volz, V. Murinde, Sibel Ayas   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Vulnerability and Racial Inequality in COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago

Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Although the current COVID-19 crisis is felt globally, at the local level, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected poor, highly segregated African American communities in Chicago. To understand the emerging pattern of racial inequality in the effects of
Sage J. Kim, Wendy B. Bostwick
semanticscholar   +1 more source