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    A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

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    Coastal regions are the areas most threatened by natural hazards, with floods being the most frequent and significant threat in terms of their induced impacts, and therefore, any management scheme requires their evaluation. In coastal areas, flooding is a hazard associated with various processes acting at different scales: coastal storms, flash floods, and sea level rise (SLR). In order to address the problem as a whole, this study presents a methodology to undertake a preliminary integrated risk assessment that determines the magnitude of the different flood processes (flash flood, marine storm, SLR) and their associated consequences, taking into account their temporal and spatial scales. The risk is quantified using specific indicators to assess the magnitude of the hazard (for each component) and the consequences in a common scale. This allows for a robust comparison of the spatial risk distribution along the coast in order to identify both the areas at greatest risk and the risk components that have the greatest impact. This methodology is applied on the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean, Spain), which can be considered representative of developed areas of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The results obtained characterise this coastline as an area of relatively low overall risk, although some hot spots have been identified with high-risk values, with flash flooding being the principal risk process

    Histeria e somatização: o que mudou?

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    OBJETIVO: Propor um questionamento sobre o enfoque que se tem dado Ă  histeria num contexto de classificaçÔes diagnĂłsticas progressivamente mais tĂ©cnicas e restritivas; investigar o que pode estar sendo negligenciado quanto aos complexos aspectos de funcionamento inerentes Ă  condição histĂ©rica. MÉTODO: RevisĂŁo da literatura relevante sobre o tema, a evolução histĂłrica de seu conceito e suas correlaçÔes clĂ­nicas. RESULTADOS: DescriçÔes clĂ­nicas da histeria existem hĂĄ quase 2 mil anos, com pormenores que pouco diferem dos de descriçÔes mais recentes. A histeria parece permanecer em grande parte incompreendida pela medicina; restam importantes lacunas de conhecimento sobre o que teria tomado, na atualidade, o lugar dos antigos sintomas histĂ©ricos. Sabe-se, porĂ©m, que inĂșmeras categorias nosogrĂĄficas surgiram nas Ășltimas dĂ©cadas, como a fibromialgia, a sensibilidade quĂ­mica mĂșltipla, a somatização etc., Ă s vezes com alto grau de imprecisĂŁo conceitual. CONCLUSÃO: O construto histeria vem se fragmentando cada vez mais nas sucessivas classificaçÔes diagnĂłsticas, sem que essa fragmentação favoreça uma maior compreensĂŁo de seu significado e de seu enredo. A descrição cada vez mais refinada dos manuais classificatĂłrios, com a eliminação da expressĂŁo "histeria", nĂŁo parece ter representado uma estratĂ©gia adequada para um entendimento aprofundado dessa condição, tampouco para um melhor manejo clĂ­nico desses pacientes

    Developing linguistic theories using annotated corpora

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    This paper aims to carve out a place for corpus research within theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. We argue that annotated corpora naturally complement native speaker intuitions and controlled psycholinguistic methods and thus can be powerful tools for developing and evaluating linguistic theories. We also review basic methods and best practices for moving from corpus annotations to hypothesis formation and testing, offering practical advice and technical guidance to researchers wishing to incorporate corpus methods into their work

    From self sufficiency to dependence: mechanisms and factors important for autotransporter biogenesis

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