Sentences with phrase «social vulnerability by»

Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.

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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.

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).

«So, to reduce poverty and vulnerability, social protection programmes must be adopted just as its benefits must be widely felt by the people.

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.»

Dr. Keener coordinates an interdisciplinary team of social and physical scientists that aims to reduce Pacific Island communities vulnerability to climate change by translating academic research into actionable knowledge for a variety of stakeholders at the local, state, and regional level — especially regarding the management of fresh water resources.

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).

Her work includes examinations of how black identity is differentially constructed across multiple contexts and informs achievement outcomes, how black people's perceptions of opportunity vary within space and influence academic orientation, and how black educational resilience and vulnerability is structured by social, institutional, and historical forces.

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.

The index looked at 177 countries and analyzed their adaptive capacity in terms of vulnerability and readiness by looking at food supply, ecosystems, habitat, health infrastructure, water, economy, governance, and social readiness.

Section 19.4.4 concludes this chapter by suggesting research priorities for the natural and social sciences that may provide relevant knowledge for assessing key vulnerabilities of climate change.

The tribunal concluded that the impacts felt by the coastal fisherfolk community of Bangladesh is the direct consequence of climate change and resulted in some important recommendations for action, including that the Government of Bangladesh takes immediate measures to reduce vulnerability to the projected impacts of climate change, such financial assistance and a social safety net for the people of climate - impact zones.

Here, we assessed human vulnerability to changes in the number of suitable plant growing days by using a common method that distinguishes populations depending on their (i) «exposure» to environmental change, (ii) «dependency» on potentially impacted goods and services, and (iii) social «adaptability» [41 — 44].

The neuropsychologist, contrary to the opinions of the psychiatrist and neurologist instructed, raised the issue of vulnerability and that due to pre-existing emotional vulnerability, together with her perceived disability, social isolation and problems in executive functioning since the SAH, Ms D was even more vulnerable to being exploited and manipulated by others and at high risk that she would allow the substantial damages she was to receive to be gambled away by her partner in order to appease and placate him.

Patients with damage to orbitofrontal cortex, the amygdala, or both, are often vulnerable to scams, bad business deals, and exploitative relationships, a vulnerability that may be affected by deficits in specific aspects of social cognition (45, 47).

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

The character exhibited by Meryl Streep in this film uses her curious questioning and social intelligence to perceive vulnerabilities and attack multiple family members with poisonous words and reckless abandon.

If replicated by future studies, these preliminary findings suggest that the MAOA - L would confer a vulnerability to negative social experiences, including early trauma, and a specific proclivity toward reactive aggression, i.e. that type of aggression triggered by exaggerated levels of negative emotion, such as anger and anxiety.

As a result of academic demands and an increase in social media, face to face vulnerability is limited, though no less needed or desired by students.

It is the short version of the Parent Stress Index, an instrument greatly used to value the parenting stress that is defined by the Authors like the constellation of biological, psychological and social factors distorting the adaptive reaction to parental stressors and predispose the parent to psychological vulnerability.