Looking at the minority of cases where people don't have family to fall back on, makes it clear how catastrophic the absence of that support can be.
In low-income countries such as Vietnam, the economic effects of vision impairment due to cataract can be particularly catastrophic given the absence of social security safety nets.
Underscoring the theme of redundancy in the yeast U1 snRNP, we show that otherwise benign Snp1- 1-223) and Snp1- 1-208) mutations are catastrophic in the absence of Mud2 or Nam8.
In the absence of catastrophic stressors such as war, specialists in traumatic stress turn their attention elsewhere, discovering new sources of victims or hitherto unrecognized trauma".
These 200-year simulations show that spatio-temporal transition of forest cover type is significant even in the absence of catastrophic disturbances.
Thus, exceedences of PAH sediment quality guidelines designed to protect aquatic biota at 20% of the sites in sea otter habitat suggest that sea otters are vulnerable to hydrocarbon contamination even in the absence of catastrophic oil spills.
Although the model predicts the occurrence of catastrophic interference in the absence of adult neurogenesis, the specific phenotype of living animals remains dependent on many, largely unknown features of information processing in the DG.
It is unlikely that growers change spray patterns drastically in the absence of catastrophic changes; however, smaller changes in climate or pests may result in slight differences in pesticide use.
The absence of catastrophic injuries like suspensory breakdown in harness racing could be related to the slower speed, to the position of the centre of mass, more caudal compared to TBR, and to the characteristic of the racecourse bank on the curves [ 7, 37].
Not only was there a catastrophic drought - and the absence of two proper wet seasons in recent years is feared to be a consequence of climate change - but in some places Katine's soils are exhausted and the land over-farmed.
