Title of Document: ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEERS AND PROPENSITY: EXAMINING VULNERABILITY TO PEER REINFORCEMENT Kyle J. Thomas Master of Arts 2011 Directed By: Associate Professor, Jean McGloin, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice ABSTRACT Though scholars recognize that peer-based risks for offending are especially robust, a handful of researchers have started to question whether ...

This paper documents the main findings of a study on food insecurity and vulnerability in the Indian state of Orissa in support of promoting interventions for food security and livelihoods at state level. A similar study was undertaken in Himachal Pradesh, India. The paper analyses the main characteristics and causes of food insecurity and vulnerability. It seeks to identify who are vulnerable ...

Vulnerability assessment varies widely across households, countries, and regions. Though many previous studies assessed vulnerability to climate change, their unit of analysis was aggregate. Therefore, the objective this study measure smallholder farmers change at household level identify its determinant factors in east Hararghe zone. A multi-stage sampling procedure used select districts, kebe...

1-introduction one of the problems that is important in the waste management is the topic of waste rural landfill site selection and latex resulting from that in rural areas. the latex can be because groundwater pollution the contamination vulnerability and groundwater protection assessment has proved to be an effective tool for the delineation of protection zones in area affected by groundwate...

introduction: bipolar affective disorder is cyclic swinging of mood between mania or hypo-mania and depression. lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorder is 2.4%. a numbers of risk factors are associated with bipolar disorders including age, sex, and genetic predisposition, environmental factors and socioeconomic status. the main objective of the conducted study was to assess vulnerability for bi...

the analysis of vulnerability in networks generally involves some questions about how the underlying graph is connected. one is naturally interested in studying the types of disruption in the network that maybe caused by failures of certain links or nodes. in terms of a graph, the concept of connectedness is used in dierent forms to study many of the measures of vulnerability. when certain ver...