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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Structural Vulnerability"”.
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Structural Vulnerability of Coastal Bridges Under Hurricane Conditions
Hurricane waves can cause catastrophic damage to coastal bridges that lack sufficient clearance. This research focused on improving the understanding of the behavior of coastal bridges under hurricane-induced wave impact. High-fidelity finite element (FE) models were developed within ABAQUS, …
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Transmission Linked to Structural Vulnerability: How Low-Income Countries Endured the Great Recession
… LICs according to each country’s individual structural economic and financial vulnerabilities. Bangladesh saw a delayed impact but did not avoid the crisis completely, while Zambia saw a quick impact but recovered sooner. Where their individual cases converge, they offer recommendations for …
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We know what the CMBS did last summer and why
… in CMBS issuance, in a case study to assess structural vulnerability in the CMBS market. Finally, we explore the hedging potential of CMBS by regressing a range of domestic and international financial asset prices and various rated CMBS prices during three carefully chosen time periods within …
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Physician and Patient Satisfaction With Charity Care: The Case of Health Access Network in Utah
… provide or access health care are constrained by structural obstacles within the health care system. Keywords: charity care; health care system; physician volunteerism; patient satisfaction; structural vulnerability; structural violence
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
… frameworks most commonly applied to electoral vulnerability, electoral integrity and democratic backsliding, were not designed to examine the moment of acute institutional pressure when governing bodies must recognize, respond to, and communicate about an active crisis in real time. This thesis …
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
… frameworks most commonly applied to electoral vulnerability, electoral integrity and democratic backsliding, were not designed to examine the moment of acute institutional pressure when governing bodies must recognize, respond to, and communicate about an active crisis in real time. This thesis …
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Cascading Failures and Contingency Analysis for Smart Grid Security
… of the system and exploit some of the inherent structural vulnerability of power grids. Therefore, determining the most vulnerable components (e.g., buses or generators or transmission lines) is critically important for power grid defense. This dissertation introduces three different approaches …
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Three Essays on Labour and Public Economics
… their per-unit impact is far larger, revealing a structural vulnerability to geographic export concentration. The second chapter, co-authored with Stefan Staubli and Qiongda Zhao, studies the long-run effects of changing the early eligibility age (EEA) for old-age pensions, a common policy to …
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'The AIDS is coming and there is nowhere to run...': Culture, gender, and the politics of Kisongo Maasai women and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (Immune deficiency, Tanzania)
… from the, “A Gender Issue: Reducing the Vulnerability of Kisongo Maasai Girls to HIV/AIDS” project, which was a participatory action research (PAR) study in collaboration with the Kisongo Maasai in Northern Tanzania. The objectives of the study were to explore the factors that may …
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Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing in an Environment of Risk: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Urban Congolese Refugee Resilience in Kenya
Background: The current global refugee crisis requires attention from the public health community to improve the health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced groups. Eighty-six percent of refugees are hosted in developing countries, while 58% migrate to urban centers in search of opportunities. …