Chapter 1: Introduction to Seismic Vulnerability Assessment 1. Background Earthquakes and other natural hazards can create disasters of uncontrollable magnitudes when they hit large metropolitan areas. Earthquake risk assessment is used to quantify potential social and economic losses from earthquakes. Risk assessment is an integral part of disaster mitigation. It provides the critical information about on the characteristics of potential disasters in a region and allows planners to identify
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19 Minutes: Peter -Vulnerability-Hopelessness-Devotion- Vulnerable - Peter had to endure through days where he was tormented daily by those bullies. He had days where it seemed like it would never end. The minutes felt like hours. It made him weaker in the mind‚ adding on to his fragility. While other kids in his grade can just ignore and push problems to the side‚ he was constantly unable to get those bullies off his mind. So he then created a game where smart kids that get bullied just
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1. Introduction Vulnerability simply means the susceptibility of social groups to potential losses from natural hazards. It is the characteristics of individuals‚ households or communities and their condition that influence their capacity to cope with‚ resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard (Blaikie et al.‚ 1994; Kelly and Adger‚ 2000; Cardona‚ 2003). Hazards such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ landslides‚ hurricanes‚ droughts etc are the natural phenomena. It becomes disaster when it affects
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Introduction Over time in health care there have been times in which‚ the directors of the hospital have been trying to get rid of Licensed Practical Nurse or LPNs and want their nursing staff to only be Registered Nurses or RNs. If LPNs are eliminated there will be a huge nursing shortage in the hospital setting. If a LPNs is currently working in a hospital setting are told to get their RN by a date or they will be fired. This is a problem because older LPN that is close to retirement they are not
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Vulnerability of the Mentally Ill Eva Morris American Sentinel University Vulnerability of the Mentally Ill Evaluation and treatment of the mentally ill population has developed from confinement of the mad during colonial times‚ into the biomedical balancing of neurological impairment seen in these modern times. There were eras of mental health reform‚ medicalization‚ and deinstitutionalization sandwiched in between (Nies & McEwen‚ 2011). Regardless of the stage of understanding and development
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The most accurate way to assess vulnerabilities in an IT system is by penetration testing‚ which simulates an actual attack. It can be dangerous to both the targeted organization‚ as well as the penetration team. Since the testers use the same tools as an actual attacker‚ systems and networks could really be brought down during the “attack.” One of the biggest advantages to penetration testing is that it tests not only the security of the infrastructure‚ but the readiness of the response team
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Vulnerability terrifies me. Throughout my life I have always felt the need to be strong and emotionally stable no matter what the situation is. What I had hoped would be the best Christmas turned out to be one the worst one yet. Less than a week before Christmas in 2007 my father died in a car accident. I hadn’t seen my dad in months because we lived in different cities and two weeks before Christmas break when I finally was going to go visit him I had received a letter in the mail from him. I
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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Facing IT Managers Today Darin Swan University of Maryland University College Two factors increase the stakes of the cyber struggle. Tactically and operationally‚ the increasing dependence of modern technologically advanced forces (especially U.S. forces) on networks and information systems create new kinds of exploitable vulnerabilities. Second‚ as modern societies including the militaries that mirror them have continued to evolve‚ they have become ever more dependent
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watching TV to making video calls. With all the features included in them‚ they are very easy to stockpile important (and sometimes sensitive) information about the user. Since smartphones are essentially tiny computers‚ they suffer the same vulnerabilities of PC’s‚ including viruses‚ malicious applications‚ and hacking. If there is the tiniest flaw in the smartphone’s armor‚ hackers can gain access and take an enormous amount of data from it. With the rise in popularity of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
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deteriorated and she was confined to the hospital I became exposed to the daily activities in a clinical environment. Being able to closely observe the doctors‚ nurses and other medical staff cemented my resolve to pursue a career in nursing. I decided to enter the nursing profession in order to help people‚ like my grandmother‚ who required the medical care and personal compassion I knew I’m capable of providing. Before becoming a nurse‚ I knew I had many roads to travel and many journeys to complete
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