Severe fires, driven by anomalous weather conditions, are increasingly becoming the new norm across Russia.
Theories as to why abound: severe weather driven by climate change, a crippling sardine crash, the unknown effects of these and other variables colliding.
Bedevilled by alcohol-related violence, high truancy rates and poverty, Roebourne's plight seems anomalous in a region where severe labour shortages have driven up average wages to more than $110,000 per year, notably in mining towns such as Karratha and Dampier.
Concurrent exposure and loading did not result in corrosion damage sufficiently severe to drive crack formation away from microstructure features (TiC particles).
The anti-inflammatory effects of statins might have clinical benefits if severe disease is driven by over exuberant cytokine responses [13], as suggested in severe cases of both H5N1 and H1N1 influenza [14], [15].
The objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between target joints and direct medical costs for persons with severe haemophilia, and the extent to which health resource utilisation and direct medical costs (excluding replacement therapy) in severe haemophilia are driven by long-term clinical complications of the disease.
"Slovenia is facing a severe banking crisis, driven by excessive risk-taking, weak corporate governance of state-owned banks and insufficiently effective supervision tools," according to the report.
Russia, meanwhile, faces a severe economic downturn driven in part by sanctions the west has imposed for supporting the separatists with troops and equipment, which Moscow vehemently denies it is doing.
Doctors are failing to treat morning sickness, which can be so severe it has driven some women to abort their babies, because of the legacy of the thalidomide disaster.
Now we face a more severe slump, probably driven by deleveraging, in which even a zero rate isn't low enough, so monetary policy has to work in unconventional ways – in particular, by changing expectations about future inflation, so as to reduce real interest rates.
