Settlement difficulties may be exacerbated by unemployment, financial instability and financial responsibility and concern for family members who remain overseas or in refugee camps [ 3, 5].
In this respect, refugees are particularly vulnerable, because they are often exposed to additional social challenges associated with migration and various post-settlement difficulties.
They are often exposed to multiple traumas before and during migration, and many also experience post-settlement difficulties such as language barriers, culture shock, and loss of social status and social networks [ 2].
A 10-year follow-up study of tortured, treatment-seeking refugees found that post-settlement difficulties had a negative effect on psychiatric morbidity, and that this effect increased over time [ 18].
Concussion settlement highlights difficulty of proving brain damage.
One of the barriers for the diffusion of WTs in urban settlements is the difficulty to estimate the wind resource, which is highly site-specific and less predictable than the solar resource.
While some in the West can understand the Palestinian refusal to cede the Jordan Valley or Jerusalem, or to accept that oftentimes violent settlers should remain in their settlements, they have difficulty understanding why Palestinians won't simply agree to recognize Israel as the "state of the Jewish people".
Having just researched the Chouteau trading company at St . Louis including correspondence between the Chouteaus and the Valles, I could easily envision Felix Valle and his clients talking about the price of beaver skins in London, the cholera epidemics that so often swept through these settlements, or the difficulties of traders wintering among Indian tribes along the river.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia urged restraint to bring about a "peaceful settlement to this difficulty".
I couldn't look my son in the eye and say, 'This is what your dad's life is worth.' " Plaintiffs with cancer would receive relatively low compensation under the settlement because of the difficulty of proving a link between the illness and exposure at ground zero.
