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Meteorological conditions leading to the 2015 Salgar flash flood: lessons for vulnerable regions in tropical complex terrain [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019 Flash floods are a recurrent hazard for many developing Latin American regions due to their complex mountainous terrain and the rainfall characteristics in the tropics. These regions often lack the timely and high-quality information needed to assess, in
C. D. Hoyos +19 more
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Sistema automatizado de alerta temprana ante el peligro de inundaciones
Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, 2013 Las inundaciones son una de las catástrofes naturales que más afectan a Cuba. En el Centro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas (CIH) perteneciente a la Facultad de Ingeniería Civil del Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (Cujae) se lleva a
Maray Garrido Monagas +2 more
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Managing floods in Chennai City as part of situation understanding and improvement project
World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 349-370, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Transdisciplinary approaches in water are important to ensure water security to everyone around the world. Recently, Young Water Professionals (YWPs) training was carried out to impart learning in transdisciplinary approaches. Besides online workshops and lectures, the training program included the Situation Understanding and Improvement ...
Sunil Shivakumar +11 more
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Cancer Medicine, Volume 12, Issue 14, Page 15358-15370, July 2023., 2023 This multicenter, multinational qualitative study identifies strategies used by implementation leaders to promote hospital staff's decision to adopt a Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) in resource‐limited pediatric oncology centers. These findings can guide efforts to implement PEWS and other quality improvement tools that improve childhood cancer ...
Marisa Cristin Woo +19 more
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Cancer Medicine, Volume 12, Issue 10, Page 11878-11888, May 2023., 2023 The COVID‐19 pandemic created challenges to maintain and scale‐up an ongoing quality improvement initiative, a Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS), in five pediatric oncology hospitals in Latin America. Identified factors mitigate these challenges and promote ongoing PEWS use can be leveraged to support sustainability of programs to reduce global ...
Parima P. Wiphatphumiprates +19 more
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Cancer Medicine, Volume 12, Issue 3, Page 3634-3643, February 2023., 2023 In this qualitative analysis of provider interviews, we identify PEWS as facilitators of communication between providers and patient families in resource‐limited and high‐resource pediatric oncology hospitals. Our findings demonstrate that providers perceive the family concern component of PEWS allows greater inclusion of patient families as a part of ...
Srinithya R. Gillipelli +13 more
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Cancer, Volume 128, Issue 22, Page 4004-4016, November 15, 2022., 2022 Background Pediatric early warning systems (PEWS) aid in the early identification of deterioration in hospitalized children with cancer; however, they are under‐used in resource‐limited settings. The authors use the knowledge‐to‐action framework to describe the implementation strategy for Proyecto Escala de Valoracion de Alerta Temprana (EVAT), a ...
Asya Agulnik +53 more
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EPPO Bulletin, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 463-470, August 2022., 2022 Abstract The black stem borer Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford, 1894) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is a species native to Eastern Asia that has invaded 24 countries worldwide, including 21 European countries, the USA, Canada and New Zealand.
Josep M. Riba‐Flinch +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, Volume 69, Issue 5, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Pediatric early warning systems (PEWS) arewidely used to identify clinically deteriorating patients. Hospitalized pediatric oncology patients are particularly prone to clinical deterioration. We assessed the PEWS performance to predict early clinical deterioration and the effect of PEWS implementation on patient outcomes in pediatric oncology ...
Marijn Soeteman +5 more
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Robust Earthquake Early Warning at a Fraction of the Cost: ASTUTI Costa Rica
AGU Advances, Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2021., 2021 Abstract We show that a fixed smartphone network can provide robust Earthquake Early Warning for at least two orders of magnitude less cost than scientific‐grade networks. Our software and cloud‐based data architecture that we have constructed for the Alerta Sismica Temprana Utilizando Teléfonos Inteligentes (ASTUTI; Earthquake Early Warning Utilizing ...
Benjamin A. Brooks +12 more
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