the default of a single bank, causing a system-wide large disruption in a financial network (financial crisis) is called the systemic risk it poses to the system. A full assessment of the exposures created by a financial agent and thus its systemic risk contribution to the system is not ...
This analysis allows us to assess whether cryptocurrencies were a hedge for equity markets during the relatively benign period up to the beginning of the COVID-19 market crisis. This may help in reconciling the previous evidence that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, have sometimes acted as a ...
The lessons learned from the Ebola crisis indicate that stakeholders in health sec- tors should prevent the disruption of malaria programs during the planning and implementation of future dis- ease control programs, such as the COVID-19 ...
Spikes in the rates of lead in children’s blood in 2015 sparked the start of a years-long water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The city of Jackson, Mississippi, which endured days with a full water outage last August and September, has ongoing projects to reduce elevated levels of lead in ...
The current opioid epidemic is one of the most severe public health crisis in US history. Responding to it has been difficult due to its rapidly changing nature and the severity of its associated outcomes. This review examines the origin and evolution of the crisis, the pharmacological properties...
Armiero (2021) has theorized the Wasteocene, ‘the era of waste’, employing it as an interpretive framework for the current socio-ecological crisis; within this framework, the continuous production of ‘discarded’ people, communities, and places emerges due to the imposition of toxic ecologies ...
Although there is a separate section for each of the four dimensions it is important to note that they are interdependent, resulting in some overlap of coverage across the sections. The global coronavirus crisis emerged during the writing of this article. It is referenced occasionally, and ...
K-12 schools, stunting their students' academic progress and setting them up for failure once they reach the college level. This dilution of standards has greatly contributed to the education crisis that is causing U.S. students to fall behind their peers in many other advanced industrial ...
ranging in age from 12 to 18 years, who were attending educational institutions in the city of Arica. The Child and Adolescent Assessment System (SENA) was used to measure mental health problems, the Brief Resilience Scale for Children and Youth (CYRM-12) was used to measure resilience, and...
Life Events: Milestones like marriage, having children, or nearing retirement can prompt a reassessment of risk tolerance. Likewise, experiences with traumatic financial events, like living through a financial crisis or market crash can leave one's risk tolerance marred. Economic Conditions: Booming or...