BACKGROUND Despite an increasing number of studies on the factors mediating the impact of the economic recession on mental health, research beyond the individual employment status is scarce. Our objectives were to investigate in which ways the mental health of employed and unemployed populations is differently affected by the current economic recession along the educational scale and to examine...

Social media have played integral roles in many crises around the world. Thailand faced severe floods between July 2011 and January 2012, when more than 13.6 million people were affected. This 7-month disaster provides a great opportunity to understand the use of social media for managing a crisis project before, during, and after its occurrence. However, current literature lacks a theoretical ...

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this variation to evaluate the importance of factors that have been discussed as having contributed to the poor performance of banks during the credit cri...

Crisis and emergency management systems often require the use of large simulations to predict future developments of the simulated phenomena. For example, floods and forest fires are dynamic phenomena with devastating consequences. Simulations for these disasters require large amounts of information, including current and future weather data and the topography of the local terrain. In both case...

Often, systemic banking crises initiate from one or more banks and affect countries by rapid spreading in the banking network, financial markets and economy of countries. According to Reinhart & Rogoff (2009) in the book titled "This time is Different," financial crises are pointed as an equal opportunity menace for high-income countries and emerging markets. Although The International Mo...

Two important principles governing upward social mobility are Pareto’s 80/20 rule and Schelling’s segregation threshold. Pareto shows that wealth follows a power law, where a few have the most. Schelling shows that neighborhood preference (beyond a certain threshold) leads to spatial segregation. The link between these two principles, however, remains undeveloped—particularly in relation to the...

Crises demand swift and effective decision-making; yet there are many problems in training personnel on the skills necessary to achieve the goals of crisis management. This paper has three objectives concerning training for crisis management. First we integrate diverse literatures and present a framework for an understanding of the unique challenges in crisis management training, and the role o...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Global cerebral edema is common among patients with poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage and is associated with poor outcome. Currently no targeted therapy exists largely due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying mechanisms. METHODS This is a prospective observational study including 39 consecutive patients with poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage with multimoda...