Sentence examples for vulnerability rating from inspiring English sources

Therefore, the amount of recharge is positively correlated with the vulnerability rating (Abdullahi 2009; Davis et al. 2002).

Bredemeier et al. (2001), Hanewinkel et al. (2009), Spellmann et al. (2011) confirm the critical vulnerability rating of Norway spruce in Germany.

In this paper, inventory and spatial information from an example landscape are integrated using the Landscape Management System to produce alternative management scenarios and evaluate the projections using a wind damage vulnerability rating system.

Two methods of combining H and A indices into a vulnerability rating (V) were explored.

Outside Worcester City, strata were created by combining contiguous towns using two criteria: a) similarity among towns in terms of vulnerability rating [H,A] (so the strata achieve reasonably optimal relative homogeneity), and b) aggregation obeys the MOS rule.

As with individual H indicators, block-group values of individual A indicators were aggregated to population-weighted average values at the town scale, then standardized and aggregated and divided into five classes so that the final index A ranges from 1 to 5. Figure 2 shows the vulnerability rating and MOS for each town.

Domain scores are calculated by averaging the indicator vulnerability rates.

Individual vulnerability was not reported rather vulnerability rates, expressed as percentages are used.

A similar pattern of results was found, with quintile 5 (the most affluent areas) showing the lowest vulnerability rates (7.2%) and quintile 1 the highest vulnerability rate (25.6%).

Full compensability between domains is abandoned when using squared domain scores, meaning that a high vulnerability rate in, for example, health can not be offset by a low vulnerability rate in water and sanitation.

Indeed, this study has identified such communities in which there were vulnerability rates of close to 50%.