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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"social risk"”.
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Vulnerability and social risk management in India and Mexico
… of effective community, regional and national risk-management strategies, especially for systemic risks, such as natural disasters, entails understanding the determinants of social vulnerability in individuals and groups, and the factors that foster the adoption of specific mechanisms of risk …
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Agent-based modelling of social risk amplification during product crises
Public response to risk is socially shaped in a way that often over- or under-estimates expert risk assessments. One of the main theoretical tools to examine public risk perception is the social amplification of risk framework (SARF). This framework proposes a mechanism through which risk responses …
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Public street surveillance: A psychometric study on the perceived social risk
… 1998; Tomkins, 1998) have raised concern over social, civil and privacy issues, but there has been limited research to quantify these concerns. There are a number of core aspects that could relocate the risk perception and therefore, social support of public street surveillance. This study …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Risk and Discrepancy in Major Depressive Disorder
… relationships, and employment. Disruption to social functioning is a core feature of MDD, and this dimension of the disorder may offer valuable insight into its aetiology. This thesis aims to extend our understanding of social processing in MDD by testing hypotheses generated from a …
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Exploring the relationships among impulsivity, interpersonal difficulties, and social risk-taking in borderline personality disorder: behavioural influences and neural correlates
… these symptoms may have differential effects on risk-taking behavior: impulsivity has been associated with increased risk-taking, while interpersonal difficulties has been associated with decreased trust in social contexts, which can be construed as decreased risk-taking behavior. More work is …
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Mitigating Social Risk in the Extractive Sector: Developing Intercultural Competence as a Tool for Negotiating Western-Indigenous Perspectives within the Undergraduate Mining Engineering Curriculum
… develops a novel framing of the problem of social risk in the extractive sector, as it relates to the building of respectful relationships with indigenous peoples. Building upon Bakhtin’s dialogism, the thesis demonstrates the linkage of this aspect of social risk to professional education, …
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"The World Bank's Risk Management Approach to Poverty as a Form of Neoliberal Governmentality? The Case of ""The Social Risk Mitigation Project"" in Turkey"
I aim to go beyond describing the unintended consequences of the project and answer the question of why these unintended consequences matter. I argue that outcomes that might appear as side effects of an intervention to alleviate poverty might, according to another perspective, be considered as …
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"The World Bank's risk management approach to poverty as a form of neoliberal governmentality? The case of the ""social risk mitigation project"" in Turkey"
… the World Bank offered a new approach named ‘social risk management’ for poverty reduction. The World Bank documents present the aim of social risk management as to provide instruments to the poor and the vulnerable to decrease the impact of being exposed to risk. The empirical focus of this …
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Cognition and self-presentation among publicly self-conscious, shy adolescent females
… nonshy/nonself-conscious girls in a variety of social risk situations. Buss’s theory that self-conscious individuals are more psychologically vulnerable to high social risk situations than those who are not self-conscious was tested by examining the differences in cognition and self-presentation …
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socialinių paslaugų, teikiamų socialinės rizikos šeimoms, administravimo tobulinimas:akmenės rajono savivaldybės atvejis /
These Bachelor's thesis analyses the social services provided to social risk families, the problem of administration improvement. After the analysis of theoretical literature, the basic insights of administration of social services provided to disadvantaged families were determined in defining …
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The Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social and Non-social Risky Decision-Making
Decisions made under risk have been primarily studied within economic contexts (Platt & Huettel, 2008). This has led to the development of sound methods and models for studying risky choice behavior (Rangel, Camerer & Montague, 2008). In particular, these models are helpful for estimating how much …
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The Biological, Psychological, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives on Aging: The Design of a Healthy Aging Program for Older Adults
… in physiological, cognitive, psychological, and social facets. Researchers have investigated the physiological, cognitive, psychological, and social risk factors associated with aging and have encouraged the use of physical activity, cognitive training, and dietary interventions to alleviate risk …
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The influence of socio-enviromental design factors (SEDeF) of crime prevention on residential property values in Nigeria
… objectives. The results of findings showed that social risk factors (poverty, unemployment, juvenile delinquecies, illiteracy and homelessness) and the environmental design factors (natural access control, surveillance, efficient maintenance, territorial functioning and target hardening) are …
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Vaikų, lankančių dienos centrą, socialinių įgūdžių ugdymo(si) modelis /
According to Daukšienė, Gudžinskienė (2002), social skills are an integral part of our lives. In contemporary press, pedagogical and psychological literature and the documents regulating education the necessity to develop children’s social skills is discussed. Appropriate social skills acquired in …
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An experimental inquiry into the effects of the amount of information, attributed source of the information and situational context on perceived risk in the selection of an attorney
… source of the information and perceived risk in a professional service setting. Perceived risk theory, the dichotomy of goods and services, and factors unique to professional services are discussed relevant to consumer choice. Hypotheses stemming from the literature are offered relating …
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A model for effective organisational stakeholder engagement : development and evaluation of a systematic approach to corporate-stakeholder engagement management
… in business of concepts associated with the social bottom line (corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, community investment, stakeholder involvement, public participation and societal license amongst them) have focused the attention of communications academics and …
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The Risky Side of Creativity: A Scientific Investigation of Creativity and Domain Specific Risk Taking
… have often speculated about the role of risk taking in creativity, however this association has rarely been systematically investigated. This thesis explores the association between domain specific risk taking and creativity in human participants. It presents a systematic review of the …
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Vaikų dienos centrą lankančių ugdytinių socialinių problemų įveikos galimybės /
… data analysis of possibilities of solving social problems of pupils who attend daycare center was carried out. Five pupils who attend day care center, five parents whose children attend the daycare center and the employees of the daycare center: two social workers and one social pedagogue …
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