Partial material factors need to be calibrated to guarantee the target failure probability of glass structures according to the semi-probabilistic (level I) methods of design.
A very plausible causal pathway runs from low levels of non-comparative individual income through these material risk factors to lower individual life expectancy.
We show (for the case of Stokes flow) that designs with fewer baffles have comparable material stretch factors to corresponding designs with all baffles present.
Value will then accrue predictably to the owners of 'bottleneck' resource and material factors rather than to the inventors (Pisano and Teece 2007).
These material factors may be related to increased exposure to harmful conditions in the workplace, home and neighborhood (toxins, carcinogens, crime, injury, etc)., but also increased prevalence of negative psychosocial factors (e.g. stressors, lack of coping skills, etc).
Materialist model: Health inequalities are due to differences in exposure to material factors outside of one's control, e.g. housing and hazard in workplace, which affect health and are related to differences in position within a social structure (4, 5).
They critiqued the emphasis on human-rights, saying that it neglected these core material factors that increased vulnerability to HIV, and threatened to undermine the relationships most women relied on for basic necessities: "I do realize the effects of HIV.
Social democrats sometimes fail to look beyond material factors (especially income) when trying to explain or cure social ills.
One type of explanation points to material factors in the creation of health disparities.
Material factors are generally thought to act by nonpsychological mechanisms, but it has also been suggested that both material and social conditions impact on health through the physiological effects of their emotional and social meanings [ 24], and that the health effects of material conditions act through interpersonal processes [ 25, 26].
