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What is critical global health?

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2016
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Vincanne Adams
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CO₂-equivalence metrics for surface albedo change based on the radiative forcing concept: a critical review [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021
Management of Earth's surface albedo is increasingly viewed as an important climate change mitigation strategy both on (Seneviratne et al., 2018) and off (Field et al., 2018; Kravitz et al., 2018) the land. Assessing the impact of a surface albedo change
R. M. Bright, M. T. Lund
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Measuring Resilience in Smart Infrastructures: A Comprehensive Review of Metrics and Methods

Applied Sciences, 2023
In today’s world, the safety, economic prosperity, and social well-being of nations depend heavily on highly interconnected critical infrastructures.
Abdulaziz Almaleh
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Power system resilience assessment considering critical infrastructure resilience approaches and government policymaker criteria

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2021
The electric power system is one of the most important critical infrastructures of a country. Recently, the number of natural and man‐made disasters is increased, which can impose extensive damages and costs to the power system.
Habibollah Raoufi, Vahid Vahidinasab
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Solar Performance Metrics in Urban Planning: A Review and Taxonomy

Buildings, 2022
Metrics are instrumental in design assessments. Solar performance metrics help designers to evaluate solar access in cities. Metrics should be used early in the urban planning stages in order to enable sustainable urban development with greater access to
Agnieszka Czachura, Jouri Kanters, Niko Gentile, Maria Wall   +3 more
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Rethinking Poverty Metrics: Constructing the GEAR Model Indicators through a Reflective-Critical Lens [PDF]

Applied Research in Administrative Sciences
The apparent success of many poverty reduction policies stands in sharp contrast to persistent experiences of dependency, clientelism, and structural vulnerability.
Wimmy, HALIIM
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Critical metrics of the volume functional on manifolds with boundary [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2017
The goal of this article is to study the space of smooth Riemannian structures on compact manifolds with boundary that satisfies a critical point equation associated with a boundary value problem. We provide an integral formula which enables us to show that if a critical metric of the volume functional on a connected n n -dimensional ...
Baltazar, H., Ribeiro Jr., E.
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Objective functions used as performance metrics for hydrological models: state-of-the-art and critical analysis

RBRH, 2020
Hydrological models (HMs) can be applied for different purposes, and a key step is model calibration using objective functions (OF) to quantify the agreement between observed and calculated discharges.
Paloma Mara de Lima Ferreira, Adriano Rolim da Paz, Juan Martín Bravo   +2 more
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Evaluation of Power Systems Resilience to Extreme Weather Events: A Review of Methods and Assumptions

IEEE Access, 2023
The requirement for a sustained supply of electricity intensifies during and in the aftermath of extreme events. In the past, events were considered extreme based on their extensive and devasting impacts and also because they were rare.
Francis Mujjuni, Thomas R. Betts, Richard E. Blanchard   +2 more
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ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS ESTIMATION USING RECONSTRUCTED FEATURE OF AIRBORNE DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR BY AUTO-ENCODER NEURAL NETWORK [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
Aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation is critical for quantifying carbon stocks and essential for evaluating carbon cycle. In recent years, airborne LiDAR shows its great ability for highly-precision AGB estimation.
T. Li, Z. Wang, J. Peng
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