We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer products traded. Our difference-in-difference results point to a fall in the demand for tradables – especial...

Abstract Will AI-enabled capabilities increase inadvertent escalation risk? This article revisits Cold War-era thinking about to consider how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology (especially AI augmentation of advanced conventional weapons) through various mechanisms and pathways could affect risk between nuclear-armed adversaries during a crisis or conflict. How might be incorporated into n...

following our previous presentation of a new three-fold symmetry for derivation of the magic numbers of nuclei based upon a quark state model of nuclei, here the nuclear binding energy is obtained from such new perspective. from this point of view, since each nucleon is made of three quarks, the binding energy of nuclei contains a volume term proportional to 3a (a is mass number). by considerin...

This article situates Henrik Vigh’s concept of ‘chronic crisis’ in social disaster research and humanitarian studies order to explore how child survivors experience address the prolonged consequences disasters. The rationale for mobilising chronic crisis is that it opens up possibilities exploring dynamics multidimensionality disasters responses them. Using example nuclear disasters, looks at e...

A table-top exercise on ‘Monitoring a large-scale cross-border contamination in the aftermath of a nuclear accident’ was organized within the FP7-project PREPARE with the focus on the long-term emergency monitoring including transboundary and transnational aspects. From the detailed and content-rich answers from all participants of the table-top exercise, it can be concluded that competent pers...

myasthenia crisis is the most dangerous complication of myasthenia gravis. we report one case in which a continuous infusion of pyridostigmine resulted in successful management of myasthenia exacerbation in a 50 year old myasthenic female following thymectomy.

A regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could decrease global surface temperature by 1∘C–2∘C for 5–10 years and have major impacts on precipitation and solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface. Using a crop simulation model forced by three global climate model simulations, we investigate the impacts on agricultural production in China, the largest grain producer in the world. In the f...