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Browsing by Subject "risk"
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Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact and Adaptation Risk Assessments
(2011-04-28)Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts across ... -
Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact Risk Assessments
(2011-04-28)Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts across ... -
Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan
(2023)Since the 2011 meltdown, the health of “Fukushima children” has become a problem for parents, politics, and future imaginaries in post-nuclear Japan. What are the ethical and political implications of making life around ... -
Are prediction models for vaginal birth after cesarean accurate?
(American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2019-05)BACKGROUND:The use of trial of labor after cesarean delivery calculators in the prediction of successful vaginal birth after cesarean delivery gives physicians an evidence-based tool to assist with patient counseling and ... -
A Risk‐Risk Trade‐off: Insecticide Use for Malaria Control
(2011-04-29)Malaria is among the top causes of death in low-income countries. Because it is transmitted through a mosquito vector, programs to reduce or control these insects receive much attention. Recently, concerns have increased ... -
`Crack Babies' and `Illegals': Neo-liberalism, and Moral Boundary Maintenance of Race and Class
(2013)Examination of the moralized risk discourse that occurs during moral panics can help us better understand how discourse supports neoliberal modes of governance. Using the moral panics about crack babies in the 1980's and ... -
Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
(2017)Public health data show that many everyday reckless behaviors reach a developmental peak in adolescence, with adolescents engaging in more reckless behaviors than both children and adults. In contrast, most studies ... -
Emerging Perspectives on Climate Risk: Current Business Leaders & Future Business Leaders
(2018-04-27)Increasingly, global companies have to balance short-term objectives with longer-term opportunities in response to a changing climate. Corporations have a great deal to gain from reframing climate-related risks into opportunities ... -
Evaluating risk for adolescent anxiety: The role of preschool sensory over-responsivity and differential volume of subcortical regions
(2023-04-20)Anxiety disorders represent one of the most prevalent groups of mental health disorders and can cause immense problems in psychosocial functioning and overall well-being. Sensory over-responsivity, which is typically only ... -
Frequency of Occult High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Invasive Cancer within Anal Condylomata in Men Who Have Sex with Men
(2010)Human papillomavirus causes anal condylomata, high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, and anal squamous cell cancer. We found high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia or squamous cell cancer in 75 (47%) of 159 HIV-seropositive ... -
Individual Differences in Neural Reward and Threat Processing: Identifying Pathways of Risk and Resilience for Psychopathology
(2014)The goal of this dissertation is two-fold: 1) to identify novel biological pathways implicating individual differences in reward and threat processing in the emergence of risk and resilience for psychopathology, 2) to identify ... -
Investigation of Poor Stream Function in the Fishing Creek Watershed
(2015-04-24)Water quality in Coon, Jordan, and Fishing Creeks of Granville County, NC was assessed using geospatial modeling, toxicity testing, community surveys and interviews, and risk assessment. Field data combined with existing ... -
Managerial Decision Making in Censored Environments: Biased Judgment of Demand, Risk, and Employee Capability
(2012)Individuals have the tendency to believe that they have complete information when making decisions. In many contexts this propensity allows for swift, efficient, and generally effective decision making. However, individuals ... -
Normative Range Parenting and the Developing Brain: Investigating the Functional and Structural Neural Correlates of Parenting in the Absence of Trauma
(2022)Research on extreme deviations in early life caregiving has provided valuable insight into the effects of early adversity on brain development and risk for psychopathology. However, much remains unknown about the impact ... -
Optimal Critical Values for Pre-Testing in Regression
(1976)In this paper we derive and present optimal critical points for pre-tests in regression using a minimum average relative risk criterion. We use the same type risk functions as Sawa and Hiromatsu [8] who, in a recent paper ... -
Quantifying the Economic Risk of Wildfires and Power Lines in San Diego County
(2014-04-25)San Diego Gas & Electric Company has proposed retrofits to seven of its transmission lines to reduce the lines’ potential for igniting fires and to increase their ability to withstand damage from wildfires. Since the company’s ... -
The association between cognitive function and subsequent depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
(Psychol Med, 2017-01)Despite a growing interest in understanding the cognitive deficits associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), it is largely unknown whether such deficits exist before disorder onset or how they might influence the ... -
The Role of Information in Behavioral and Environmental Health Economics
(2012)The increased use of information disclosure in environmental policy raises questions of whether and how provision of information motivates changes in behavior. Accurate assessment of the value of information provision in ...
