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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)

open access: yesBrain 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some security issues for web based frameworks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This report investigates whether a vulnerability found in one web framework may be used to find a vulnerability in a different web framework. To test this hypothesis, several open source applications were installed in a secure test environment together ...
Ellman, Jeremy, Roberts-Morpeth, P.
core   +1 more source

The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies, 2021
Subjective assessments of well-being are becoming routine indicators, considering that material resources are insufficient to capture people’s satisfaction with life.
Claudine Burton-Jeangros   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aging in COVID-19: Vulnerability, immunity and intervention

open access: yesAgeing Research Reviews, 2020
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, moved across the globe at an unprecedented speed, and is having a profound and yet still unfolding health and socioeconomic ...
Yiyin Chen   +9 more
semanticscholar   +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

Factors Associated with Mental Health Outcomes and the Level of Work Engagement Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Tunisia

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Heath workers especiallyin the emergency rooms and emergency medical services are exposed to sustained stress which had increased due to the Pandemic situation Objectives To search for factors associated with mental disorders among health ...
I. Betbout   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dairy farmers’ knowledge and perception of climate change in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conflict and social vulnerability to climate change: Lessons from Gaza [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In societies marred by conflict, the propensity of populations to be harmed by climate hazards is likely to be increased by their exposure to violence and other coercive practices.
el Sheikh, Rebhy   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Analysis of trends, recurrences, severity and frequency of droughts using standardised precipitation index: Case of OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

open access: yesJàmbá, 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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