On the back of the current turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, the timing of the World Bank proposal is also odd, considering the vulnerability of authoritarian and self-serving sub-Saharan governments (not even counting Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast).
Potential cumulative impacts and the overall impact significance are predicted quantitatively in modified Argonne multiple matrixes while considering the vulnerability of affected landscape receptors and the significance of impacts identified individually.
Bridge-system fragility curves are developed considering the vulnerability of critical components to assess the probability of bridge damage given a ground motion intensity measure, adopted as peak ground acceleration.
The paper focuses on the effects of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) in seismic fragility analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges, considering the vulnerability of multiple critical components of the bridge and different modelling approaches for soil-foundation and bridge-embankment interactions.
Considering the vulnerability of the target population, it would have been unethical to build a true sample of children with disability for the calibration of the investigators.
The outbreak response was conducted in compliance with the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research and all applicable federal and international regulations governing the protection of human subjects, particularly considering the vulnerability of military personnel.
Considering the vulnerability of anterior white matter tracts to shearing and the involvement of these tracts in attention and moment-to-moment predictive timing, it may be timely to develop a unified approach to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mTBI.
However, the adults and the aged population are again sub-divided into young adults (aged 15 40 years), old adults (aged 40 60 years), older age group (aged 60 80, and the oldest age group (aged 80+) for cross examination while considering the vulnerability of diseases (25, 26).
The report said public officials should consider the vulnerability of coastal areas and take action when necessary, for example, by limiting development in vulnerable areas.
All officers trained in the use of Taser must consider the vulnerability of the individual, and factors such as age and stature form part of this assessment.
We now consider the vulnerability of social movement dynamics.
