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Electric Grid Vulnerability Analysis to Identify Communities Prone to Wildfires

IEEE Access, 2023
Natural hazards, like wildfires, present various challenges to the electric grid that can leave many communities without power. To identify vulnerabilities in the grid and the corresponding at-risk communities, this work considers the implementation of ...
C. Birk Jones, Cynthia J. Bresloff, Rachid Darbali-Zamora   +2 more
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Weather Patterns Associated With Coastal Disasters in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
The study identified weather patterns (WPs) associated with coastal disasters between 1998 and 2020 along the Santa Catarina coast, Brazil. Using atmospheric and oceanographic data combined with official disaster records, five WPs were defined, mainly associated with cyclonic and anticyclonic systems linked to extreme wave events.
Karine Bastos Leal, Danilo Couto de Souza, Matheus Bonjour Laviola‐da‐Silva, Susana Silva da Pereira, Thales Sehn Körting, Luís Eduardo de Souza Robaina   +5 more
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Finding the Good in Grief: What Augustine Knew but Meursault Couldn't [PDF]

, 2017
Meursault, the protagonist of Camus' The Stranger, is unable to grieve, a fact that ultimately leads to his condemnation and execution. Given the emotional distresses involved in grief, should we envy Camus or pity him? I defend the latter conclusion. As
Cholbi, Michael
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The missing woodland story: Implications of 1700 years of stand‐scale change on ‘naturalness’ and managing remnant broadleaved woodlands

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Longer‐term perspectives—equivalent to the lifespans of long‐lived trees—are required to fully inform perceptions of ‘naturalness’ used in woodland conservation and management. Stand‐scale dynamics of an old growth temperate woodland are reconstructed using palaeoecological data.
Annabel Everard, J. Edward Schofield, Tim Mighall, Scott Timpany, Gill Plunkett   +4 more
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Entre O mito de Sísifo e Sambas do absurdo: a possibilidade de revelar o absurdo através do samba

Viso, 2018
O intento deste artigo é pensar a relação que o ensaio O mito de Sísifo – publicado em 1942 por Albert Camus – e o disco Sambas do Absurdo – lançado em 2017 pelo trio: Rodrigo Campos, Juçara Marçal e Gui Amabis – mantém com o absurdo.
Vinicius Xavier Hoste
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Clonagem do camu-camu arbustivo em porta-enxertos de camu-camu arbustivo e arbóreo Cloning of shrubby camu-camu on shrubby and arboreal camu-camu rootstocks

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2009
O camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) McVaugh), espécie frutífera nativa da Amazônia, de porte arbustivo, é propagado, normalmente, por sementes, ocasionando grande variação na entrada em frutificação e no ciclo de produção, bem como no teor de ácido ascórbico (vitamina C) dos frutos. outra espécie de camu-camu, M. floribunda (West ex Willd.) o.
Mario Moreira Filho, Sidney Alberto do Nascimento Ferreira   +1 more
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Clonagem do camu-camu arbustivo em porta-enxertos de camu-camu arbustivo e arbóreo [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2009
O camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) McVaugh), espécie frutífera nativa da Amazônia, de porte arbustivo, é propagado, normalmente, por sementes, ocasionando grande variação na entrada em frutificação e no ciclo de produção, bem como no teor de ácido ascórbico (vitamina C) dos frutos. outra espécie de camu-camu, M. floribunda (West ex Willd.) o.
Filho, Mario Moreira, Ferreira, Sidney Alberto do Nascimento   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Burden of Knowing: Camus, Qohelet, and the Limitations of Human Reason [PDF]

, 2012
In one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus writes this: “This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists.
Morgan, Justin K
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Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jakob Cromdal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional Detachment in Albert Camus’ The Stranger: A Happy Man Drawn into Misery [PDF]

Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2019
Emotional detachment is positive when it is done intentionally for the sake of achieving happiness. Meursault, the protagonist in Albert Camus’ The Stranger, is fully aware that his emotional detachment brings him happiness and peace of mind, that is ...
Iman Mahdi
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