Vulnerable bridges

Impacts of Climate Change on Scour-Vulnerable Bridges: Assessment Based on HYRISK

More than 20% of the bridges in the United States were built more than 50 years ago, at a time in which intense precipitation events were much less common. However, very little work has been done on the use of scour risk-assessment models to assess how climate change increases bridge failure probabilities. This paper develops a risk-assessment framework based on HYRISK, a model developed to ass...

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

[From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient].

Atherosclerotic plaque instability is directly involved in triggering acute coronary syndromes, including unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, and sudden coronary death. Different and not completely unknown mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis of the destabilisation of the vulnerable plaque; currently three mechanisms are considered to play a causal role in this process: emboliz...

Covered Bridges

Vulnerable leadership

© 2016 The author(s). Published by informa uK Limited, trading as Taylor & francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CONTACT Louise younie m.l.a.youni...