Artificial intelligence and health empowerment in rural communities and landslide- or avalanche-isolated contexts: real case at a fictitious location [PDF]
Through a series of case studies, we have pretested the capabilities and reliability of the Large Language Models (LLM), Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) and OpenAI o3 reasoning model (o3) in educational and healthcare contexts. Based on this
Rune Johan Krumsvik, Vegard Slettvoll
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Risk assessment in the North Caucasus ski resorts [PDF]
Avalanches pose a significant problem in most mountain regions of Russia. The constant growth of economic activity, and therefore the increased avalanche hazard, in the North Caucasus region lead to demand for the development of large-scale avalanche ...
A. Y. Komarov +3 more
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Linking snow depth to avalanche release area size: measurements from the Vallée de la Sionne field site [PDF]
One of the major challenges in avalanche hazard assessment is the correct estimation of avalanche release area size, which is of crucial importance to evaluate the potential danger that avalanches pose to roads, railways or infrastructure.
J. Veitinger, B. Sovilla
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Dendritic flux avalanches in a superconducting MgB2 tape [PDF]
MgB2 tapes with high critical current have a significant technological potential, but can experience operational breakdown due to thermomagnetic instability.
Johansen, Tom Henning +7 more
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Microstructure-based modeling of snow mechanics: a discrete element approach [PDF]
Rapid and large deformations of snow are mainly controlled by grain rearrangements, which occur through the failure of cohesive bonds and the creation of new contacts. We exploit a granular description of snow to develop a discrete element model based on
P. Hagenmuller, G. Chambon, M. Naaim
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Has fire policy decreased the return period of the largest wildfire events in France? A Bayesian assessment based on extreme value theory [PDF]
Very large wildfires have high human, economic, and ecological impacts so that robust evaluation of their return period is crucial. Preventing such events is a major objective of the new fire policy set up in France in 1994, which is oriented towards
G. Evin, T. Curt, N. Eckert
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The changes in the seismic signals generated by avalanches recorded at three sites along a path at the Vallée de la Sionne (VdlS) experimental site are presented.
Emma Suriñach +4 more
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Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps
Protection forests play a key role in protecting settlements, people, and infrastructures from gravitational hazards such as rockfalls and avalanches in mountain areas.
Laurin Hillebrand +7 more
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Empirical prediction for travel distance of channelized rock avalanches in the Wenchuan earthquake area [PDF]
Rock avalanches are extremely rapid, massive flow-like movements of fragmented rock. The travel path of the rock avalanches may be confined by channels in some cases, which are referred to as channelized rock avalanches.
W. Zhan +5 more
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Variations of Nivometeorological Parameters During 2021-2022 Winter. [PDF]
The paper presents and analyze snow and meteorological parameters of 2021-2022 winter, measured at the weather stations with nivological program (Predeal, Sinaia 1500, Parâng, Semenic, Vlădeasa, Ceahlău-Toaca, Iezer, Călimani, Țarcu, Bâlea-Lac, Vârful ...
Narcisa MILIAN, Udo RECKERTH
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