Evidence of Disaster Planning by Home Care Providers: An Integrative Literature Review. [PDF]
Lessinnes S, Köhler M, Ewers M.
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Joint Situational Assessment‐Hierarchical Decision‐Making Framework for Maneuver Intent Decisions
This study introduces a new framework for decision‐making in unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), integrating graph convolutional networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL). The method tackles adopts a curriculum‐based training approach guided by cross‐entropy rewards.
Ruihai Chen+4 more
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This article answers the question “Where is the best place to apply compliance in a multirotor micro aerial vehicle to make it more collision‐resilient?” by analyzing the output data of more than 1200 drone collision tests for four main configurations of micro‐quadcopters each possessing a unique softness layout of physical frame.
Amirali Abazari+3 more
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Disaster planning approaches in Iran's health system: A mixed-methods study. [PDF]
Mohajervatan A+4 more
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Teenagers' perspectives on the Canterbury earthquakes : an insight into their needs and experiences : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand [PDF]
Natural disasters inflict physical, psychosocial, and economic impacts on individuals and their communities. Although a substantial number of disaster survivors are teenagers (13-19 years), this population group has not been widely investigated ...
Pine, Nicola Stacey
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A robotic stylet is proposed based on a multisegment continuum mechanism for specialized assisting endotracheal intubation. Its geometric parameters are designed based on medical images and kinematic is derived. A prototype is fabricated, and its kinematics and application are experimentally verified. These robotic systems can improve accurate, secure,
Jiangzhen Guo+8 more
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Scenario-robust pre-disaster planning for multiple relief items. [PDF]
Yang M, Kumar S, Wang X, Fry MJ.
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Planning and designing public open spaces as a strategy for disaster resilient cities: a review of literature [PDF]
Public open spaces are often used as a mode to make cities sustainable from all its three counts; economic, environmental and social. Most of contemporary urban planners, designers, and landscape architects use the public open spaces as a mode to ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi+2 more
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To tackle the challenge of parameter estimation in dynamic human–robot interaction, this research proposes a novel method that integrates a disturbance observer with Kalman filtering. In contrast to conventional techniques, this approach facilitates the simultaneous real‐time estimation of human wrench and object parameters, offering significantly ...
Minghao Bai+5 more
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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for Disaster Planning in Surgical Education. [PDF]
Ellison EC, Shabahang MM.
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