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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"individual vulnerability"”.
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Epidemiological and pathological correlates of early neonatal mortality
… of antenatal brain injury is poor and individual vulnerability may be important. Specific genotypes such as Apolipoprotein E are disadvantageous to outcome in the context of adult brain injury and may also be important in early development.
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Vulnerability in online social network profiles. A Framework for Measuring Consequences of Information Disclosure in Online Social Networks.
… this thesis presents a framework to quantify the vulnerability of a user¿s OSN profile. Vulnerability is defined as the likelihood that the personal details displayed on an OSN profile will spread due to the actions of the profile owner and their friends in regards to information disclosure. The …
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Vulnerability in online social network profiles. A Framework for Measuring Consequences of Information Disclosure in Online Social Networks
… this thesis presents a framework to quantify the vulnerability of a user's OSN profile. Vulnerability is defined as the likelihood that the personal details displayed on an OSN profile will spread due to the actions of the profile owner and their friends in regards to information disclosure. The …
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Individual and Objective Influences on Psychological Outcomes of Sexual Harassment: A Preliminary Examination
… was included as an additional measure of individual vulnerability. Results paralleled the findings from Study 1 in that severity was the most important factor across all outcomes. Previous victimization contributed significant variance but was nonetheless dominated by objective factors. …
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The prison of online performance: social achievement goals as a buffer between social media and digital stress
… online. This dissertation investigates how individual differences in social achievement goal orientations—development (DEV) and demonstration (DEM)—moderate the relationship between social media use (SMU) and approval anxiety, a key form of digital stress. Grounded in Social Achievement Goal …
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The role of sustainable tourism in poverty alleviation in South Africa : a case study of the Spier tourism initiative
… social marginalisation, material deprivation and individual vulnerability, tourism has over the years increasingly been mooted as a strategically important and lucrative sector that, if fully explored and exploited, would lead to sustained poverty alleviation in the Republic of South Africa. The …
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BEYOND THE FIRE LINE: A COMMUNITY HEALTH VULNERABILITY INDEX AND ANALYSIS OF POST FIRE RECOVERY IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
… through the construction of a community health vulnerability index. Individual vulnerability factors (i.e. age, social isolation, educational attainment) percentages were established at the block group level utilizing the 2016-2020 5-year estimates from the American Community Survey. The …
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Behavioural and cellular basis of the vulnerability to develop compulsive heroin seeking habits
… that support the transition, in vulnerable individuals, from recreational drug use to compulsive drug seeking habits. Over the last decade clinical and preclinical studies have begun to shed light on the psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to cocaine addiction, but …
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Characterization of the Roman lines/strains of rats as a genetic model of psychiatric disorders: a behavioral and brain dialysis study
… and ongoing stress may ultimately determine the individual vulnerability to stress-related disorders, such as depression. Therefore, the development and characterization of animal models of vulnerability and resistance to the effects of stress, including early life stress, is a major challenge …
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Studio degli effetti della pre-esposizione adolescenziale al Δ9-THC nell’autosomministrazione di eroina, in età adulta, in un modello animale di maggiore (ratti Lewis) e minore (ratti Fischer 344) predisposizione all’abuso.
… adequately account the importance of phenotype vulnerability as predisposing factor involved in the development of a drug abuse-related behavioral disorder. Addiction prone Lewis (LEW) and addiction resistant Fischer (F344) inbred rat strains represents a useful animal model of different drug …
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Analisi dell’espressione della fosfoERK quale strumento di indagine per la caratterizzazione della sensibilità alle sostanze d’abuso in linee di ratti geneticamente selezionati
… model to investigate the neural basis of the individual vulnerability to drug addiction and that pERK phosphorylation in nuclei of extended amygdala represents a valuable dynamic marker of drug-induced neuronal activation .