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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Shock exposure"”.
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Analysis and mitigation of mechanical shock effects on high speed planing boats
… seas, exposes the occupants to severe mechanical shock exposure that has been linked to significant increase in the rates of acute and chronic injury. While many government and civilian organizations have researched various aspects of this problem over the past decade or more, no effective …
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Building resilience and ensuring food security in Ethiopia amid multiple shocks
This thesis examines household resilience, shock exposure, and food security in Ethiopia under overlapping climatic, economic, health, and political shocks. Using nationally representative panel data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESPS/LSMS–ISA) for 2018/19 and 2021/22, the study analyzes …
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I won't let you behind". The impact of migration on sending households"
… risk management strategy in response to natural shock exposure. The effect of international remittances on household healthcare consumption is tested using data from the “Peruvian National Survey of Households”. Remittances positively impact on healthcare consumption shares and this propensity is …
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Impact of environmental conditions on expression levels of resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps and outer membrane porins in Acinetobacter baumannii
… availability, oxidative stress, salicylate exposure, steady-state osmotic stress, ethanol shock, exposure to different incubation temperatures and exposure to blue light on expression levels of three RND efflux pumps and three outer membrane porins of A. baumannii. In addition, we …
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Network mechanisms underlying susceptibility to helplessness and response to the antidepressant fluoxetine
… activity and harm avoidance) before stress exposure using a stress-susceptible rat strain, 2) to identify the neural network effects of response and non-response to SSRI treatment using a stress-susceptible animal model, and 3) to determine the neurophysiologic correlates of helplessness …
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Information risk, uncertainty risk and asset prices
… information uncertainty risk. Firms with high exposure to information friction shock generate significantly lower returns than firms with low information friction shock exposure. A mimicking portfolio, IFS factor, generates 6% excess return per annum. The second chapter documents the history of …
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Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
… and spatial variation in the intensity of the shock. The paper uses a self-reported measure of shock exposure collected by a nationally representative household survey six to twelve months after the disaster. In addition, the paper uniquely incorporates an external administrative measure of …