the occurrence of natural and human disasters can create heavy casualties in cities and urban areas and such a critical issue makes it inevitable to pay a great deal of attention to the vulnerability and safety aspects of cities and the accessibility to the urban welfare standards from the perspective of passive defense. the geostrategic location of koohdasht city in iran and its vulnerability ...

The diathesis-stress theory for depression states that the effects of stress on the depression risk are dependent on the diathesis or vulnerability, implying multiplicative interactive effects on the liability scale. We used polygenic risk scores for major depressive disorder (MDD) calculated from the results of the most recent analysis from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium as a direct measu...

Recent research finds that perceived risk is closely associated with race and gender. In surveys of the American public a subset of white males stand out for their uniformly low perceptions of environmental health risks, while most nonwhite and nonmale respondents reveal higher perceived risk. Such findings have been attributed to the advantageous position of white males in American social life...

During the last decades, settlement activities increased in European mountain regions. Due to the scarceness of areas suitable for development, residential estates were extended into areas endangered by natural hazards such as mass movements. These settlements generally show a considerable vulnerability to tangible assets. Integral risk management strategies to reduce the vulnerability to tangi...

OBJECTIVES To identify vulnerable cardiovascular patients in the hospital using a self-reported function-based screening tool. PARTICIPANTS Prospective observational cohort study of 445 individuals aged ≥ 65 years admitted to a university medical centre hospital within the USA with acute coronary syndrome and/or decompensated heart failure. METHODS Participants completed an inperson intervi...

Drought is a naturally occurring event that is associated with virtually all climatic regions. Given its slow onset and other characteristics, including its spatial dimensions and duration, impacts are difficult to assess and have been, historically, poorly documented. These impacts are strongly influenced by a society’s exposure to the hazard and the vulnerability of that society to the hazard...

Software Security metrics are quantitative measures related to a software system’s level of trustworthiness. They can be used to aid in resource allocation, program planning, risk assessment, and product and service selection. Recently researchers have proposed several software security metrics. Among these are attack surface and vulnerability density. The attack surface measure has been used b...

With increasing dependency on IT infrastructure, the main objective of a system administrator is to maintain a stable and secure network, with ensure that the network is robust enough against malicious network users like attackers and intruders. Security risk management provides way to manage the growing threats to infrastructures or system. This paper proposes a framework for risk level estima...

due to simple operation and no needs for expensive infrastructure construction to convey water from a source to farm lands, groundwater becomes the most important sources of agricultural water supply in iran. however, the contamination of aquifers is a major concern in many countries, specifically in areas without effective groundwater protection and management. therefore, groundwater vulnerabi...