Green Tea Timothy H.Dixon.2017.Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World.(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press) 300 pp.ISBN 978-1108113663.In Curbing Catastrophe, Timothy H.Dixon explores commonalities among natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the meltdown at Fukushima.He
Generalist avian brood parasites vary considerably in their degree of host specialization (e.g., number of hosts); some parasitize the nests of just a few host species, whereas others exploit more than 100 species.Several factors, including habitat range, habitat type, and geographic location, have been suggested to account for these variations.How
To understand object categorization, participants are tested in experiments often quite different from how people experience object categories in the real world.Learning and knowledge of categories is measured in discrete experimental trials, those trials may or may not provide feedback, trials appear one after another, after some fixed inter-trial
Background: The real-world safety profile of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines remains incompletely elucidated.Methods: We performed a nationwide post-market safety surveillance analysis in Singapore, on vacinees aged 5 years and older, through mid-September 2022.Observed-over-expected (O/E) analyses were performed to identify potential safety signals among e
This study utilises the generalised purchasing power parity (GPPP) to assess the feasibility of a monetary union in the East African Community (EAC) region.Time series and panel vector error correction models (VCM) were used to analyse monthly data from 1996-2016 for the five EAC countries.The cointegration results support the existence of a long-r