Natural disasters are often described as having antagonistic qualities (e.g., wildfires ravage). The information deficit model presumes that when people assess the risk of weather hazards, they ignore irrelevant metaphoric descriptors. However, frames affect reasoning. current research assessed whether antagonist metaphors for natural perceptions pose. Three studies ( N = 1,936) demonstrated pa...

Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly affecting every city in the world, including through more intense weather and extremes. Climate impacts risks are magnified cities, which home to than half world's population. Projections show one billion people will live areas at risk of coastal hazards by 2050. Sea level rise jeopardizes cities complicated wind, water, hazards. Potential on wellbei...

Climate change-related hazards will aggravate and impact differently on urban societies. Although early warning systems be important for reducing the hazard risks in cities, nature of that are available to residents informal settlements remains less understood. This paper aimed assess through which dwellers reduce their an African city. Using Accra as case, data were collected from 582 househol...

As the climate warms, a new hazard, compound flood-heat extreme (CFH) events, characterized by rapid succession of devastating floods and deadly heat (or vice-versa), are becoming increasingly frequent, threatening infrastructure ecosystems. However, how this CFH hazard will change under future anthropogenic warming in China their potential population economic exposures remains unexamined. Here...

gastric cancer is the most prevalent cancer among men and the third most prevalent cancer among women in iran. its most important reason for death is its belated diagnosis at the advanced stages of the disease. various factors can be effective on the survival of these patients after surgery, which are the major concern in this study.data from 330 patients with gastric cancer who had undergone s...

with increasing frequency, the developing countries and the people living there are being affected by disasters. more and more often, development efforts are being destroyed. the reason for this trend is their growing vulnerability, which in turn is the result of economic and social development processes, such as the expansion of settlements and agricultural land in risk areas. the economic and...

Obstetric problems This is the most widely recognised environmental hazard of anaesthesia but individual opinions, as well as governmental and professional reactions, differ widely. Some feel that not enough is being done about the problem while others maintain either that there is no problem and that much research and finance has been misdirected, or that scavenging devices introduce an unacce...

performance of chamomile (matricaria chamomilla l.) was evaluated on twelve transplanting dates that were arranged at 30 days interval; during 2013-2014 on experimental field of wondo genet agricultural research center; using rcbd design with three replications. transplanting time exerted a very highly significant (p<0.0001) influence on plant height, flower yield and essential oil yield; essen...