Sentences with phrase «in social vulnerability»

Mothers and Grandmothers in Social Vulnerability: Conceptions About Care and Institutional Shelter

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Facebook's Bug Bounty program pays hackers who expose software bugs to the company's attention, but in this case the social network asserted it would not reward a anyone who tested a vulnerability on users» actual accounts.

Palihapitiya has repeatedly criticized social media in general, saying it preys on human vulnerabilities and that he doesn't allow his children to use it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

That's partly because sophisticated groups seeking to sow chaos will find new ways to exploit vulnerabilities in social networks.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

For me, joy and calling and goodness and purpose arrived hand - in - hand with social justice and suffering and vulnerability.

In view of the increasing vulnerability of contemporary societies to a broad range of social risks, including the possibility of total human extinction, the human rights regime needs to incorporate a broader concept of global human security.

... It's a social - validation feedback loop... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.

In a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform «knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.&raquIn a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform «knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.&raquin human psychology.»

In societies which have a low degree of acceptance of large daily amounts of alcohol, mainly those will be exposed to the risk of addiction who on account of high psychological vulnerability have an inducement to go against the social standards.

Child abuse, neglect, and excessively harsh treatment of children are associated with both internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and later violent behaviour, 3,4,12 but again, the impact of child maltreatment on severe antisocial behaviour appears to be greatest in the presence of genetic vulnerability.13 Family dependence on welfare, large families with closely spaced births, and single parenthood are all associated with compromised social and emotional development in children.5, 6

This article will analyse how humanitarian crises exacerbate social exclusion, resulting in increased vulnerability of persons with disabilities.

A radical increase in the mental and physical prowess of certain individuals via bio-technology and synthetic biology would nullify the presupposition of shared vulnerability, and with it a fundamental ground for the possibility of a social contract.

In addition to a kind of shared vulnerability, social contracts presuppose something like a rough equality of stakes.

«On our part, the National Social Protection Policies designed to rescue Nigerians out of poverty and vulnerability, would further help to restore abundance in the general well being of the citizens as lives would be positively impacted through this scheme», he stressed.

«These macroeconomic vulnerabilities and the option to tackle those weaknesses hinged on two key areas: mobilise domestic resources to finance social spending and infrastructural development and the ability to embark on reforms that will stimulate private sector for investment in order to accelerate growth and job creation,» Dr Bawumia said.

That Mr Miliband should feel the need to attack the concept of social responsibility, and do such a poor job of knocking it down, is a sign of his and Labour's vulnerability in this area.

But even among less social hibernators, there's variation in vulnerability.

Sandy, which hit the East Coast in the first six months of his tenure, forced him to confront some of the social vulnerabilities of managing people as sea levels rise.

«We have lots of undocumented immigrants, who have a lot of social vulnerability to something like devastating flooding in East Boston.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

«Egypt and the Nile are very sensitive instruments for climate change, and Egypt provides a unique historical laboratory in which to study social vulnerability and response to abrupt volcanic shocks,» says Manning.

The paper «The unquestionability of risk: social vulnerability and earthquake risk in tourist destinations,» published in Journal Cuadernos de Turismo, plans a new strategy of prevention and mitigation actions aimed at identifying and designing specific measures for vulnerable groups.

As indicated by the professor, «the residential tourism model implemented in Torrevieja has not only created economic risk by the construction crisis and social risk (it is the poorest municipality in Spain according to the National Institute of Statistics), but it has also increased seismic vulnerability.»

Brene Brown, Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social boSocial Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social bosocial connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social bosocial bonding.

In addition to environmental factors, such as stress and social relationships, a person's genetic make - up can also contribute to their vulnerability to drug use and misuse as well as mental health problems.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

Galanter suggested that loud music may be tapping in to, and exacerbating, some of the common social vulnerabilities people bring to a public setting gathering.

They speculated that cognitive vulnerability may well be contagious at the time of important transitions in life, when our social environments are changing.

About Blog The Earthquakes without Frontiers partnership brings together a group of earth scientists with a long track record in integrated earthquake science, social scientists that have extensive experience in exploring the vulnerability and resilience of communities in disaster - prone regions, and experienced practitioners in the communication of scientific knowledge to policy makers.

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges — True Grit — an amusing, disgusting, powerful presence that makes everything seem possible & REAL Jesse Eisenberg — Social Network — smart, subtle, fearless & very, very funny in a very, very specific way Colin Firth — King's Speech — appropriately pompous with vulnerability the audience adores — a true star turn and a true joy to behold James Franco — 127 Hours — wild and impassioned and believable with manliness battling it out with sensitivity in almost every frame Hrithik Roshan — Guzaarish — remarkably vulnerable with an edge of steel and a level of frustrated yearning that blew me away

1.5 by 2030 build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate - related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

In the State of Tamil Nadu, the State Government has established the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal (Transgender) Welfare Board (TGWB) to address the social protection needs of hijra by linking them tosocial welfare programmes with the aim of reducing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS (Godwin, 2010).

But social aspects also play a part in children's vulnerability.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

Drawing from Marxist, feminist, and radical black theory, Hannah Black's works are driven by voiceovers and intertitles that illuminate fissures in history and evoke the feelings of alienation and vulnerability that are amplified by social media and the profit structures of capitalism.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (b. 1993) is a conceptual photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work focuses on intimacy, vulnerability, and social perception.

Failing to Levitate is a platform to think about failure and vulnerability in art practices that are based in the social, in the encounter between people.

In Nengudi's hands, these materials take on symbolic meanings that relate to the resilience and vulnerability of the human body and to the forces, both social and psychological, that shape our experiences of the world.

His concern for marginalized people, both their vulnerability and their resiliency, and the cyclical threat and hope of American unfulfilled social promise will be reflected in his works.

Indicators of Social and Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Vietnam.

This does not mean we should entirely reject the quest to understand both the natural and social science of «climate emergencies», but rather adds weight to the argument that we need to understand better what it might mean to agree criteria about impacts, vulnerability and so forth that are sensitive to the real challenges of knowability and unknowability involved in such a process.

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Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Research elsewhere in the world also indicates that elements of social capital (such as associations, networks and levels of trust) are important determinants of social resilience and responses to climate change, but how these develop and are used in mitigating vulnerability remains unclear.

This brief highlights that the ILO Decent Work Agenda is critical for mitigating the specific social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities of indigenous and tribal peoples, and ensuring that they can be partners in combating climate change and achieving sustainable development.

This analytical report, using the city of Semarang, argues for the necessity of a more localized response that takes into account the ways in which exposure to climate hazards overlap with the social and demographic factors that influence vulnerability.

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.