Sentences with phrase «of vulnerability factors»

For future research, it would be interesting to investigate the developmental nature of the models using longitudinal designs, taking into account domain specificity of vulnerability factors.

Little support was found for interactive effects of these vulnerability factors on childhood anxiety.

In a linked editorial, Cornelius Katona, medical director at the Helen Bamber Foundation, says «a robust mental health response to the refugee «crisis» must lie in a combination of clinical vigilance, recognition of vulnerability factors, and above all, a determination to minimise the aggravating effects of post-migration experiences.»

Many of these vulnerability factors play a role in other anxiety disorders as well (e.g., Muris, 2007).

Not exact matches

Hahad: The type of environment exploited, and the age of the vulnerability are factors that matter.

However, an assessment of the vulnerability of the Canadian financial system should, among other factors, account for the ability of Canadian financial institutions to withstand losses from the household sector.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

The vulnerability of phone numbers is the unintended consequence of a broad push in the security industry to institute a practice, known as two - factor authentication, that is supposed to help make accounts more secure.

While this is a novel idea and could potentially increase the efficiency of trading, it adds to the risk factor, leaving your account open to vulnerabilities.

The primary questions regarding Notre Dame are a) does this hysteria force the university to choose more permanent membership, b) do the Irish choose the partial membership arrangement they currently have with the ACC, c) is the conference's sudden vulnerability a factor, and d) what happens while the Irish are mulling all of this over?

The mother - baby sleep experts highlight some of the specific limitations of the meta - analysis, and note that it did not control for important risk factors, such as unsafe bedding, infant sleep position, and infant vulnerability due to prematurity or low birthweight.

The Code does point to a range of factors that may lead to vulnerability in financial services, including a physical disability, severe or long - term illness, mental health issues and people with low literacy, numeracy or financial capability skills.

«A lack of access to education and health services and lack of decision - making power are also contributing factors to women's vulnerability to HIV.»

This combination of factors means sloppy design is ensuring that our overall infrastructure will be riddled with vulnerabilities for the foreseeable future.

As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.

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.

We are also starting to recruit the siblings of problem gamblers (those who do not have a gambling problem themselves) in order to look at underlying vulnerability factors,» concluded Dr Clark.

Our idea was to look at a vulnerability factor / risk factor pupil response and see if we could predict which families have the most depression following the flood if they had more of this particular risk factor.»

Based on findings for a paper he and colleagues wrote more than 20 years ago on diathesis — a Greek term for disposition or vulnerability, Vitaliano argues that psychiatric states and psychological outcomes are a function of exposure to stressors and vulnerabilities (early family environment, genetic factors, disposition).

We would however need to know more to identify helpful interventions — for example, is school failure in itself a risk factor, or is poor performance rather an indicator of vulnerability?»

«While there are clearly other factors that can cause these types of abnormalities, including genetic vulnerabilities, demonstrating that immune activation alone can produce these effects offers new hope for treatments that might reduce their severity, or prevent them altogether, in certain individuals.»

Equally interesting is that the gene variant occurs in 47 percent of the population — in other words, it is just one contributing factor, and it probably works in concert with other vulnerability genes.

These factors are linked to the biological underpinnings of infant vulnerability to SIDS.

It also is densely populated with 40 percent of the labor force engaged in agriculture and more than 60 percent living in coastal areas — factors that contribute to Indonesia's climate vulnerability.

However, future island vulnerability is a complex and arguably island - specific issue and will be influenced by various interacting factors that include the rate of reef growth, the rate of sea - level rise, reef evolutionary stage and thus accommodation space, island geomorphology, and the contemporary relationship between islands and their surrounding process and sedimentary regimes (Perry et al., 2011).

JAX researchers are at the forefront of understanding the genetic factors involved in individuals» vulnerability to addiction.

«Having a better understanding of the chances of local flood damage from rising seas in coastal areas is a key factor in being able to assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation options.»

It involves a host of genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors, and is now known to comprise hundreds of diseases — each with unique features, driving forces and vulnerabilities to treatments.

For birds and amphibians, high climate change vulnerability was relatively similar across scenarios for 2050, but estimates diverged by 2090, increasing overall by factors of 1.42 and 1.25 respectively.

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

The framework used allows managers and scientists to determine which nesting grounds will be most vulnerable to climate change, which climatic process will cause the most impact to each nesting ground and how the vulnerability of nesting grounds will change if impacts from specific climatic factors are mitigated.

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.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

While there are many physiological factors involved in female athletes» vulnerability to iron deficiency, low dietary intake of iron is a major factor.

There are obviously a lot of factors that determine your vulnerability to cardiovascular disease, but making chia seeds a part of your diet is going to help.

Arachidonic acid is necessary for sperm production, and the liberal consumption of glands and other organs rich in arachidonic acid may protect the Inuit and Aleut peoples from the high levels of EPA they obtain from fatty fish and marine oils.31 There may be other components of their traditional diets that limit the vulnerability of PUFAs to oxidative stress, such as antioxidants like coenzyme Q10, lipoic acid, and preformed vitamin A found abundantly in organ meats, or other unknown factors.

The discussions were useful in getting everyone to think about the number of factors that can increase young people's vulnerability to gang involvement.

Key among them is «minimizing risk factor» that intensifies women's vulnerability especially those living in camps like «joint patrols of competent and trained» security offices coupled with «community with safety coordinators» and thirdly campaigns against «existing attitudes of men and women about their roles and status.»

There are likely to be many contributory factors as to why school buildings are susceptible to fire, ranging from the level of fire safety provision and management of fire safety issues to the construction techniques employed within the building and their vulnerability to malicious attack.

Reflecting the need to factor existing climate change into national planning, 100 of the INDCs include measures to reduce vulnerability and build resilience.

The Virginia Department of Education's Family Life Education Curriculum (1991) describes some of these factors which increase special education students vulnerability for not only HIV infection but other sexually transmitted diseases, sexual abuse, and teen pregnancy as well:

There are five recognized factors that will determine the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to Climate Change.

There's plenty that's missing, including any mention of the population factor that affects greenhouse gas emissions projections but also (and more importantly, to me) the extent of vulnerability of poor people in marginal climates.

Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerability).

The vulnerability map considers the relationship of two factors: how intact an ecosystem is, and how stable it's going to be under predictions of future climate change.

From these studies, a complex range of factors, including behavioural economics (Grothmann and Patt, 2005), national aspirations and socio - political goals (Haddad, 2005), governance, civil and political rights and literacy, economic well - being and stability, demographic structure, global interconnectivity, institutional stability and well - being, and natural resource dependence (Adger and Vincent, 2005), are all emerging as powerful determinants of vulnerability and the capacity to adapt to climate change.

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.

Key factors have been identified that help determine the vulnerability of public - supply wells to contamination.

Finally, it is also essential to understand which other factors influence the vulnerability of the system.

All climate - related impacts will be mediated by the vulnerability of rural people living in poverty, isolation, or with lower literacy etc., but also by factors that give rural communities resilience to climate change, such as indigenous knowledge, and networks of mutual support.