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Progress in Disaster Science, 2021 Household evacuation preparation time is important to ensure safe and successful evacuations and is essential for the estimation of the total evacuation time during a disaster.
Md Atikur Rahman +2 more
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Team Activity of Robot Competition of Simulated Robot in World Robot Summit 2020 [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 World Robot Summit (WRS) has several robot competitions, and we will participate it in the infrastructure and disaster response category. Participating teams develop their robot system by teleoperation and/or autonomous operation and run it in a set of ...
Shima Daichi +5 more
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Extreme snowfall and residential care: A case report of a 2‐year‐old girl with heart failure
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 In residential care, the daily use of social networking services with patients (and patients’ families) helps prepare for a potential disaster. This enables health workers to continue providing essential care even during disasters, while saving human and
Hirotomo Miyatake +5 more
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Disaster management in India : need for an integrated approach [PDF]
, 2022 It is now widely known that the hazards can be natural, but most disasters are ‘human-made’. The failure to properly implement developmental policies and practices with due consideration to disaster risk management is the leading cause of turning a ...
Vipul, Nakum +2 more
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Post-disaster social reconstruction and social development [PDF]
, 2016 The Asia-Pacific region has experienced major disasters, both natural and man-made, in the recent past. Hundreds of families and communities, and several governments, non-government organisations, international organisations and aid agencies have been ...
Manohar Pawar, Pawar, Manohar
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"Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster [PDF]
, 2009 Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity
Gress, A. +16 more
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Special Issue on Advanced Methods for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures II
Applied Sciences, 2022 Earthquakes could be a hazard to human lives and the economy, leading to catastrophic disaster unless proper preparation is not made for buildings and infrastructures [...]
Sang Whan Han
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Disaster: Are We Prepared? [PDF]
Nursing and Midwifery Studies, 2014 In the last issue of Nursing and Midwifery Studies Journal, there was an interesting article about the experiences of nurses in Bam earthquakes in December 2003 that left 25000 dead and put the whole nation into the shock and grief (1). In summary, nurses reported that there was such a mental stress that many of them could not perform their usual ...
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Understanding the teachers' disaster preparedness beliefs [PDF]
, 2023 This study investigated the extent of teachers' disaster preparedness beliefs regarding perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, and self -efficacy and how their beliefs change concerning their
Daşcı Sönmez, Elif +1 more
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Social Sciences, 2020 Historically, the primary agents performing key roles in disaster preparedness, as well as risk mitigation and vulnerability reduction, in Korea have been the central government, local government, and regional government.
Seol A. Kwon, Sang Il Ryu
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