Sentences with phrase «with vulnerability factors»

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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.

In some cases, these global factors interacted with country - specific 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I therefore investigate how biological and psychological factors that are associated with psychiatric vulnerability affect the brain, how successful treatment outcome can be predicted, and how it normalizes brain function.

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.

Many women find that estrogen withdrawal causes serious mood changes, which may relate to genetic vulnerability combined with environmental factors, the so - called GxE interface.

Kristen Bell has said that «vulnerability» is a key factor in keeping her relationship with Dax Shepard «healthy».

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.»

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).

We found little evidence for vulnerability to winter death associated with factors previously thought to predict such vulnerability.

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.

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.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

Comprehensive intersectoral programs that combine measures to control deforestation and forest degradation with measures to increase agricultural productivity and sustainability will likely contribute more to reducing vulnerability of forests to climate change, land use change and other stress factors than independent sectoral initiatives.

The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change — specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts — and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.

Along with type of policy you choose, the biggest individual factors that will affect your Michigan home insurance quotes are the value of your home, its vulnerability to damage as determined by location, and your personal record as a homeowner (past claims, credit rating, home security, etc.).

The effects of place may also vary with individual and households characteristics.2 This is reflected in an urban excess of CMD only among those who were economically inactive, 51 variation in suicide rates with area level and individual socioeconomic factors, particularly unemployment, 52,53 and interaction between ethnicity and urban / rural location in the association with depressive symptoms among those living in poverty in the USA.54 Thus, place may only affect those with specific vulnerabilities.13

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.

Finally, in considering temperament as a vulnerability factor for depression, it is important to note that in addition to behavioural inhibition several theorists have developed temperament models that link additional temperamental styles, particularly Positive Emotion (PE) and Negative Emotion (NE) to depression.58 Many cross-sectional studies have reported that youth and adults with depressive symptoms exhibit diminished levels of PE and elevated levels of NE59, 60,61 and the combination of these have been associated with concurrent depressive symptoms in clinical62, 63 and community samples.61, 64,65 Furthermore, longitudinal studies have found that lower levels of PE60, 66,67 and higher level of NE in childhood68 - 70 predict the development of depressive symptoms and disorders.

These biological «vulnerabilities» may place a person at increased risk for developing BPD given certain developmental factors such as prenatal stresses, infections, nutritional deficits or stressful events in the early family environment Other family members may often have BPD, Major Depression, Bipolar Illness, or problems with addiction.

For example, in the NSCAW study, foster children with experiences of severe maltreatment exhibited more compromised outcomes.32 Other scholars suggest that foster care may even be a protective factor against the negative consequences of maltreatment.33 Similarly, it has been suggested that foster care results in more positive outcomes for children than does reunification with biological families.34 Further, some studies suggest that the psychosocial vulnerability of the child and family is more predictive of outcome than any other factor.35 Despite these caveats, the evidence suggests that foster care placement and the foster care experience more generally are associated with poorer developmental outcomes for children.

This study examined the factors associated with resilience and vulnerability in mental health in the Gaza Strip in 2007.»

The results of the correlational analyses indicated that behavioral inhibition was associated with higher symptom levels of social anxiety, other anxiety disorders, and SM, which is in agreement with a vast amount of literature showing that this temperament characteristic is a vulnerability factor for the development of anxiety pathology in children [16, 25].

Enduring strengths and vulnerabilities, early stressors, and aspects of relationship quality may be involved in a continual chain of factors, being associated with late dissolutions via long term associations with other risk factors, such as decreased relationship satisfaction or increased conflicts.

Community, Family, and Individual Factors Associated with Adolescents» Vulnerability, Daily Stress, and Well - being Following Family Separation.

Fact:» [S] ociologist shave found that the factor most decisive to a girl's increased sexual vulnerability was living in a household with adult males after her parents» separation.

Attachment disorganization is likely to constitute a broad relational risk factor for psychopathology that cuts across conventional diagnostic categories and interacts with individual biological vulnerability, producing a range of psychiatric symptoms.

At the same time, less research with adolescent samples has examined whether cognitive vulnerability factors contribute to stress generation (for exceptions see Shahar and Priel 2003; Shih et al. 2009).

These data are in accordance with a previous study from our group in which the role of attachment on children's migraine features and psychological profile were explored (14); in this previous paper, the hypothesis that a dysfunctional relationship between children and their mothers could be a vulnerability factor in young migraineurs was suggested.

Perhaps these mothers with internalizing symptoms might have compromised IS themselves and consequently transmit this vulnerability factor to their children, hereby increasing their offspring's risk for developing maladaptive ER (and possibly psychopathology).

More specifically, it was expected that cognitive vulnerability factors (negative cognitive style / stress - reactive rumination) and stressors would worsen each other's relationship with depressive symptoms more strongly as age increases.

Our data suggest that SED's relationship with different neurobiological substrates, likely determined by each individual genetic vulnerabilities and / or previous or co-occurring exposure to other environmental factors, accounts, at least partially, to its differential associations with disparate domains of psychopathology.

Although the precise mechanisms of these sex - moderated genetic vulnerabilities remain poorly understood, they appear to interact with environmental risk factors including adverse rearing environments to potentiate the development of ASPD and BPD.

Background A range of studies show adult attachment style is associated with depressive - vulnerability factors such as low self - esteem, poor support and childhood adversity.

This review concluded that the impact of brief interventions with high - risk families may be short lived, unless these families are offered additional ongoing support, since factors that increase vulnerability also reduce families» capacity to engage with or respond to interventions.

Although some studies found causal links in which psychological symptoms increase attachment insecurity, attachment insecurity can be viewed as a general vulnerability to mental disorders, with the particular symptoms depending on genetic, developmental, and environmental factors [22].