Asia in particular will see events like Sandy grow more frequent — and with even greater extremes and losses — as the confluence of climate change and rapid urbanization generate heightened vulnerabilities, especially for the hundreds of millions of urban poor residents.
But that deliberate plan has been put aside in favor or a more audacious approach, officials say, one that seeks to take advantage of the Iraqi military's heightened vulnerabilities but that also presents risk to American forces.
The move to theater‐nuclear forces today, then, represents a 20‐year step backward and a step toward heightened vulnerability.
(RS) *Effgen, G.B. and Morrison III, B., Electrophysiological and pathological characterization of the period of heightened vulnerability to repetitive injury in an in vitro stretch model.
Alphonse Maddin, it should be said, is black – like so many of the workers of color who experience heightened vulnerability to premature death on their jobs.
Similarly, neuroimaging research by CLBB faculty (Somerville, 2010) clarifies that it is teenagers' heightened vulnerability to reward that drives risky behavior, contrary to longstanding beliefs that teenagers are unable to gauge risks.
Rapidly expanding international tourism stimulated extensive development in services, although it has heightened vulnerability to global economic downturns, and the impact of large numbers of tourist arrivals placed strains on facilities and the environment.
Given that adolescents exposed to CA have on average a higher vulnerability to mental health problems than adolescents not exposed to CA3, we assume that this heightened vulnerability may go together with lower RF levels, and may influence how RFs interrelate.
When I asked Barker about it, he made sure to say that no child is doomed by low birth weight; rather, knowledge of the risks should allow doctors to identify heightened vulnerability in certain children, for whom preventive measures can make a great deal of difference.
"Women's and girls' heightened vulnerability to HIV goes far beyond physiology: it is intricately linked to entrenched gender inequalities, harmful gender norms, and structures of patriarchy that limit women and girls from reaching their full potential and leave them vulnerable to HIV," says the report.
Older new mothers experience higher maternal mortality rates, and for black women already at risk, those who have pregnancies past-35 years old have heightened vulnerability.
