Sentences with phrase «highly vulnerable»

It would be convenient if we could remain in much the same mood wherever we happened to be, in a cheap motel or a palace (think of how much money we'd save on redecorating our houses), but unfortunately we're highly vulnerable to the coded messages that emanate from our surroundings.

He added that: «The real estate sector is highly vulnerable to money laundering.»

This guide will help you be better prepared to protect yourself, other agents, and your clients in highly vulnerable situations.

The purpose of this article is to suggest sound practices about parental alienation (PA) and parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and to identify some key prevention and intervention issues so that mental health professionals who counsel children and families experiencing loyalty conflicts or parental alienation tactics will be better prepared to help this highly vulnerable population.

Recent modelling has shown that life outcomes are particularly poor for this small but highly vulnerable group.

It is unlikely that the kind of support offered through universally available service will meet the needs of highly vulnerable families.

In a related vein, consistent with theories on emotional contagion according to which intimate partners are highly vulnerable to each other's emotions (Goodman and Shippy 2002), it is conceivable that mothers are biased toward negative emotions due to their partners» psychological difficulties, leading mothers to talk more about these emotions with their children.

At the same time, they are highly vulnerable to sexual harassment, violence, and risky influences from peers, drugs and alcohol, and the media.

To account for dropout of participants, we aim to include 1200 highly vulnerable pregnant women within the study.

Methods and analysis The Mothers of Rotterdam study is a pragmatic prospective cohort study planning to include 1200 highly vulnerable pregnant women for the comparison between targeted social care and care as usual.

One of their guest speakers, Andrew Jackomos, the Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, has been sounding the alarm for years about the highly vulnerable «second stolen generation «of young Aboriginal kids who are removed from kin at increasingly high rates.

Children are highly vulnerable to indirect sources of trauma, especially the media.

Sourander (1998) concluded that unaccompanied children and adolescents are highly vulnerable towards emotional and behavioural symptoms, which are exacerbated by asylum - seeking stress.

Serving highly vulnerable families in home - visitation programs.

Children learn from what they see and hear — and if what they see and hear is pervasive mistrust — why should they put themselves in a position that they perceive as highly vulnerable?

As usual, the Canadian firm insisted on the device's secure nature despite the fact that Android has been known to be highly vulnerable when it comes to attacks.

While this could be seen as strength, the fact that Bitcoin is a fiat currency which is accepted only on the perceived value of other bitcoin users makes it highly vulnerable to destabilization.

Read about the growing coalition of education, parent & privacy groups protesting this plan to share confidential student information, without parental consent, with the Gates - funded inBloom Inc., which plans to put it on a highly vulnerable data cloud http://shar.es/Yf9F4 And contrary to what this journalist writes, there is no research showing any of this has pedagogic value.

In spite of its dynamic functionality surpassing common currency forms, such cryptocurrencies are highly vulnerable to hacking.

HP has claimed that smartwatches with network and communication functionality are highly vulnerable to attack.

Despite various improvements, work - arounds, and other attempts to shore up the WEP system, it remains highly vulnerable.

Investigating shipwrecks also leave you highly vulnerable to attack because they have good rewards and leave you anchored in the middle of nowhere — so make sure you keep someone watching the horizon for anyone coming to steal your plunder.

As a group, refugees are highly vulnerable.

Younger pedestrians are highly vulnerable to suffering death or serious injury when struck by a truck or car.

But what about highly vulnerable, cognitively challenged brain injured accident victims being painted as fakers and tossed to the curb by FSCO Arbitrators based on the unchallenged «expert» opinion evidence of an unqualified psychologist.

There are other cases where the population is entirely dependent on a limited aquifer which couldn't be replaced and is highly vulnerable.»

People and firms are highly vulnerable and will remain so in a weak economy.

Notes which go into the file in the first - tier tribunal and the employment tribunals, in view of the fact that no audio recording of the proceedings takes place there, are likely to be highly vulnerable to disclosure.»

However, motorcyclists who aren't wearing a helmet at the time of a crash are highly vulnerable to traumatic brain injury.

Many of our programs focus on highly vulnerable populations, including youth, immigrants experiencing violence, veterans, and the reentry population.

Louise Johnson of SkyHill Farm talked about the highly vulnerable aquifers in her region, Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch said that sustainable farming is the future of Upstate New York, not extractive drilling, and Hilary Baum of Chefs for the Marcellus pointed out that farms could be stigmatized if fracking operations move in nearby.

They incorporated this index into a global map and found highly vulnerable regions included central South America, the Middle East and both eastern and southern Africa.

On the other hand, at a more detailed scale, from a small region to a small country, many specific localities, sectors and societies can be highly vulnerable, at least to possible low - probability / high - consequence impacts; and potential impacts can amount to very severe damages.

It is quite striking that blue, less - polluting regions in the CO2 emissions map correspond to the red, highly vulnerable areas in the vulnerability map.

Further threatening the species is that its location is considered highly vulnerable as it's near a main road that is currently undergoing reconstruction.

Human populations will also be affected, with up to ~ 2,100 million of the poorest people in the world (~ 30 % of the world's population) highly vulnerable to changes in the supply of plant - related goods and services.

A few countries in the Americas and all countries in Oceania, Asia, and Africa, with the exception of Australia, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Namibia, Algeria, and Libya, are highly vulnerable to reductions in plant growing days (Fig 5).

Lions in this region are highly vulnerable as they come into regular conflict with pastoralists who live alongside large carnivores.

This makes them «highly vulnerable to extinction,» particularly due to shifts in the distribution of cloud forest due to climate change, say the researchers.

Young people between the ages of 14 and 18 are not only highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change but they are also tomorrow's business leaders, decision makers and consumers.

«Nuclear power is often touted as a solution to climate change, but Fukushima serves as a warning that far from solving the climate problem, nuclear power may be highly vulnerable to it.»

Micronesia and Mauritius, two low - lying island nations that are highly vulnerable to climate change induced sea level rise, have proposed aggressively phasing out the use of HFC's, and were recently joined by the United States.

NEW DELHI (March 9, 2016)-- Building on adaptation commitments made at the Paris climate talks in December, India is launching the first regional early warning systems and preparedness plans in South Asia this month to protect highly vulnerable communities from deadly heat waves intensified by climate change.

Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics and a member of the research team that has produced the cautionary report, said: «Our study shows that tropical regions — mostly developing countries that are already highly vulnerable to climate change — face the biggest rise in impacts between 1.5 C and 2 C.

The cumulative effects of climate change in Alaska strongly affect Native communities, which are highly vulnerable to these rapid changes but have a deep cultural history of adapting to change.

Alaska is home to 40 % (229 of 566) of the federally recognized tribes in the United States.171 The small number of jobs, high cost of living, and rapid social change make rural, predominantly Native, communities highly vulnerable to climate change through impacts on traditional hunting and fishing and cultural connection to the land and sea.

The more southern states within the region, including Delaware and Maryland, have a highly vulnerable land area because of a higher rate of sea level rise and relatively flat coastlines compared to the northern tier.

Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, «The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.»

Although urban and rural regions in the Northeast have profoundly different built and natural environments, both include populations that have been shown to be highly vulnerable to climate hazards and other stresses.

Impacts: Crop production is highly vulnerable to prolonged droughts interspersed with heavy rainfall, rendering Sierra Leone another country at high risk from threats to food and water security.