This, in turn, may raise vulnerabilities to an increase in interest rates and reduce the room for fiscal space should economies be hit by unforeseen shocks.
Factors that raised vulnerability included living in coastal provinces (11.3 times higher than inland metropolitan), male gender (1.9 times higher than female), and older age.
Attackers often share their success or what they have learned from failure, raising future vulnerability to other hackers, regardless of their affiliation.
FAO's harvest assessments findings show that farmers in this area have produced less than last year, with some areas being hard-hit by flooding and dry spells, raising their vulnerability.
SAN FRANCISCO — Computer security researchers are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in some of the Web's most secure corners: the banking, e-commerce and other sites that use encryption to communicate with their users.
In the past six months alone, there have been three notable events, and terrorists like Shahzad may raise a vulnerability to terrorism.
Our increasing sense of digital dependence raises our vulnerability to theft.
Understanding the origins of eukaryotic genome complexity in adaptive terms is rendered difficult by the fact that each length increase of a gene raises its vulnerability to mutational inactivation, thereby favoring its elimination from the population.
The intensity of reactive astrogliosis, as determined by GFAP levels, has been reported to increase in parallel with increasing progression of Braak stages in AD, while concomitantly the levels of astrocyte glutamate transporters have been reported to decline, which may raise the vulnerability of local neurons to excitotoxicity [ 221].
As a result, the pastoralists' resilience to environmental uncertainties is impaired by raising their ecological vulnerability (Swallow 1994; Mariara 2005).
