This paper suggests that a stochastic catastrophe model can help us to become more pro-active by helping us to identify urban arterials that currently show an acceptable level of safety, but which are vulnerable to turning into crash hotspots.
"Running stories such as Ukraine, Ebola (stories which may have seen incremental movement day-to-day) are more vulnerable to turn-off between 1855 and 1905.
But such systems are vulnerable to turning-points in the markets, in which prices suddenly stop rising and start to fall (or vice versa).
The increasing squeeze on finances is forcing vulnerable families to turn to payday lenders, which charge exorbitant interest rates – up to 4,000 per cent APR – for short-term loans.
She and her family have also invested in online K-12 education ventures, alternative systems of education that too often prey upon our nation's most vulnerable students to turn a profit.
Kids are particularly vulnerable to requests to turn over personal information, including names and email addresses or even credit card numbers.
The band hopes to build an alliance of musicians, artists, and other cultural personalities to promote a message of peace and also to convince vulnerable young people to turn away from violence and extremism.
This is a melanin deficiency that renders African skin pink and vulnerable to cancer, turns hair wispy and leaves eyes pale and impaired.
But in the long term, their de facto independent enclaves, ruling themselves for the first time in history, are very vulnerable to whoever turns out to be the winner in the Syrian civil war.
When Yo, which took all of eight hours to code and proved to be exceptionally vulnerable to hackers, turned a pretty profit moments after hitting the market, tech writers speculated that maybe this was the useless app that would finally burst the tech bubble.
Money raised from the book will be spent by Comic Relief in the UK, and across Africa, helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to turn their lives around.
