Since vulnerability differs according to the type of meteorological disaster, future preventive measures with regard to meteorological disasters should be based on vulnerability analysis results.
The sites were purposefully selected based on vulnerability assessment carried out with stakeholders up front whose results are indicated in Table 1.
Vulnerability mapping based on vulnerability indices is a pragmatic approach for highlighting the areas in a city where people are at the greatest risk of harm from heat, but the manner in which vulnerability is conceptualized influences the results.
Dispersed and remote communities - the selection of provinces, districts and communities was based on vulnerability criteria; it resulted in a very dispersed set of communities, some of which are quite remote from provincial and district headquarters towns.
Post-natal ages to study were selected based on developmental vulnerability to bilirubin neurotoxicity established by others [34], [35], [36], [37], [38].
Since ROS are chemically active and can inflict severe cellular damage, the very fact that cancer cells are under increased intrinsic ROS stress may also provide a unique opportunity to kill the malignant cells based on their vulnerability to further ROS insults caused by exogenous agents [ 34].
SYN flooding attack is a threat that has been designed based on vulnerabilities of the connection establishment phase of the TCP protocol.
"Today we see that a major number of attacks against websites are based on vulnerabilities which have not been properly addressed at the code level of the web application," says Amit Ashbel, director of product marketing of cybersecurity firm Checkmarx.
The local buildings were categorized into semiengineered (SE) and nonengineered (NE) design houses based on their vulnerability to typhoon wind as analyzed in Goyal et al. (2012).
We combine participatory and spatial modelling approaches and apply these for Zambia, South Africa, and Tanzania to: i) prioritise ecosystem services in each country; ii) to map the supply of these ecosystem services in each country, and; iii) prioritise areas important for investment for the continuous delivery of these ecosystem services based on their vulnerability to land degradation.
