Vulnerability of human beings exposed to a catastrophic disaster is affected by multiple factors that include hazard intensity, environment, and individual characteristics. The traditional approach to vulnerability assessment, based on the aggregate-area method and unsupervised learning, cannot incorporate spatial information; thus, vulnerability can be only roughly assessed. In this article, w...

Infrastructure systems such as power and water supplies make up the cornerstone of modern society which is essential for the functioning of a society and its economy. They become more and more interconnected and interdependent with the development of scientific technology and social economy. Risk and vulnerability analysis of interdependent infrastructures for security considerations has become...

Vulnerability is an important issue that needs to be solved in order to optimize the performance of complex networks. Dynamism in the topology of a complex network isan important factor in vulnerability analysis of complex networks.We analyses the vulnerability of dynamic complex networks and deals with vulnerable nodes in such networks by focusing on ad-hoc networks, which are typical dynamic ...

introduction nowadays, the vulnerability of human’s dwellings to the natural disasters has been steadily increasing as the results of the population centralisation. economic activities in vast and dense regions and disorganised and irregular conditions of dwellings in which the low-income dwellers of urban and rural areas live. the scale of damage caused by a crisis is not only related to its d...

In a given operating environment, small family businesses typically have fewer resources to minimize vulnerability. Identifying this exposure is basic to strategic analysis and, potentially, public policy analysis. This can become even more important when structural change in the environment is expected while its exact character is not known. The implications of climate change for Australian fa...

The main objective of vulnerability analysis is to select the alternative which is the least vulnerable. To make this selection, we must describe the vulnerability of each alternative by a single number – then we will select the alternative with the smallest value of this vulnerability index. Usually, there are many aspects of vulnerability: vulnerability of a certain asset to a storm, to a ter...

Background: According to recent researches, decision-making style and personality traits play an important role in the drug dependence vulnerability. The aim of current research was to investigate the moderator role of decision-making styles on relationship between personality and drug dependence vulnerability. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and twenty students of Tehran Payame Noor Univer...

SCADA systems play key roles in monitor and control of the critical infrastructures, the vulnerabilities existed in them may destroy the controlled critical infrastructures. This paper proposes an analysis method of memory access vulnerability in SCADA protocol implementation. Firstly, the memory taintedness model of SCADA protocol implementation is formally defined. Based on this model, the de...

objective: addiction is one of the most vulnerable social issues and the tendency to it involve several factors, including psychosocial stressors (life unpleasant events), and inability to deal with these stressors and the belief that drug use will lead to the desired result. this study was conducted to determine the relationship between psychosocial stressors and vulnerability to drug abuse am...

Assessing urban vulnerability to natural hazards such as earthquakes can be regarded as an ill-structured problem (i.e. a problem for which there is no unique, identifiable, objectively optimal solution). A review of the literature indi­ cates a number of contrasting definitions of what vulnerability means, as well as numerous conflicting perspectives on what should or should not be included wi...