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Capacity gaps in post disaster construction & demolition waste management [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the identification of the existing capacities of post disaster C & D waste management in developing countries, with a special emphasis on Sri Lanka to determine the capacity gaps and related influencing
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Karunasena, Gayani
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Pandemic impacts and experiences after disaster in Australia: qualitative study of compound impacts following the Black Summer bushfires

BJPsych Open
Background The first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia were recorded in January 2020, which was during the ‘Black Summer’ bushfires of 2019–20 and prior to additional disasters in some regions. Few studies have considered the compound impact of
S. Cowlishaw, C. O'Dwyer, C. Bowd, N. Sadler, M. O'Donnell, D. Forbes, A. Howard   +6 more
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A Comparative Perspective on Surveillance: Contributions of the RISK-E-SCAPE project to new legal, social and public health solutions in case of disaster [PDF]

População e Sociedade
This contribution focuses on the concept of surveillance in the case of crisis linked to public health emergencies, specifically on disasters caused by climate change.
João Casqueira Cardoso, Damaru Prasad Paneru, Ana Catarina Martins Araújo, Anusha Parajuli   +3 more
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Disaster Behavioral Health Response Training, 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
Participants will learn how the Disaster Behavioral Health Response Team will function in disaster settings, including factors affecting individual responses to disaster, phases of disaster, "at risk" groups, concepts of loss and grief, post-disaster ...

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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
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Translation and validation of Persian version of resilience evaluation scale (RES): A cross-cultural methodological research

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: The Resilience Evaluation Scale (RES) is a new, free and short self-report questionnaire for measuring psychological resilience. This study aims to translate and assess the psychometric properties of the RES.
Hamidreza Aghababaeian, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh, Armin Zareian, Miranda Olff, Christianne van der Meer, Ladan Araghi Ahvazi   +5 more
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Disaster Management In Central Java Province, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2008
Recent disasters in Indonesia have brought disaster management as the first priority of actions as government's responsibility role. A pro-active approach to elucidate the problem through concentrating on post-disaster and pre-disaster phases in addition
Kodoatie, Robert J., Wardani, Sri Prabandiyani Retno   +1 more
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PARP inhibition and pharmacological ascorbate demonstrate synergy in castration‐resistant prostate cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pharmacologic ascorbate (vitamin C) increases ROS, disrupts cellular metabolism, and induces DNA damage in CRPC cells. These effects sensitize tumors to PARP inhibition, producing synergistic growth suppression with olaparib in vitro and significantly delayed tumor progression in vivo. Pyruvate rescue confirms ROS‐dependent activity.
Nicolas Gordon, Peter T. Gallagher, Orly I. Richter, Neermala Poudel Neupane, Amy C. Mandigo, Jennifer J. McCann, Emanuela Dylgjeri, Irina Vasilevskaya, Christopher McNair, Channing J. Paller, Wm. Kevin Kelly, Karen E. Knudsen, Matthew J. Schiewer, Ayesha A. Shafi   +13 more
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Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Abdulazeez Opeyemi Abdulganiyu   +2 more
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Real-time geo-decisional system for risk and disaster management in Madagascar

Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics
Climate change is intensifying extreme phenomena, and the world is increasingly vulnerable to a variety of disasters whose impacts are considerable and varied over time, from one place to another and from one community to another. Due to its geographical
Rakotoarison Tsiorinantenaina René, Hajalalaina Aimé Richard   +1 more
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