In contrast to the common perception and ripple effect [9] that the impact of an unfortunate event attenuates over distance, just as ripples spread outward, our findings in this study revealed that residents felt less concern when their residential devastation level increased from non-devastated to slightly devastated, to moderately devastated, and further towards extremely devastated.
Residents in the extremely devastated areas reported a lower number of relief workers needed for every 1,000 residents in earthquake areas than residents in the slightly devastated and non-devastated areas (Ps<0.001), with no significant difference between the latter two groups (P = 0.645).
Since 1989, when Taylor emerged as one of Africa's most ruthless and relentlessly destructive warlords, the country has been devastated by virtually non-stop civil war.
Japan has long struggled to come to terms with its wartime history, and compensation of the hundreds of thousands of non-Japanese whose lives were devastated by imperialist expansion has been a particularly thorny issue.
And it will continue to tick as populations around the world explode and as the earth's resources remain threatened and/or devastated by one non-sustainable method of harvesting after another.
Non-health education was comparably devastated.
The estimated numbers of psychological workers needed for every 1,000 residents in the earthquake areas were 131.43±226.88 for residents in the non-devastated areas, 149.56±252.12 for residents in the slightly devastated areas, 113.71±226.85 for residents in the moderately devastated areas, and 77.25±177.18 for residents in the extremely devastated areas.
The estimated number of medical doctors needed for every 1,000 residents in the earthquake areas was 117.99±188.21 for residents in the non-devastated areas, 130.46±210.55 for residents in the slightly devastated areas, 98.15±174.08 for residents in the moderately devastated areas, and 75.95±139.40 for residents in the extremely devastated areas.
Liberal critics of Fix the Debt believe the policies it supports would devastate non-rich people without addressing the underlying causes of the debt.
In contrast, the deontological approach would concur with the basic moral commitment of non-abandonment of these young individuals devastated by AD.
Latinos and blacks also flocked to the residential, often non-union, construction industries, but these were devastated when the housing bubble burst.
