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Building disaster-resilient communities and economies [PDF]

, 2014
Executive summary The need for building resilience Natural hazards have the potential to devastate communities and economies around the world. Natural hazards are inevitable, but not natural disasters.
United Nations Environment Programme
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Physics‐Embedded Neural Network: A Novel Approach to Design Polymeric Materials

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Traditional black‐box models for polymer mechanics rely solely on data and lack physical interpretability. This work presents a physics‐embedded neural network (PENN) that integrates constitutive equations into machine learning. The approach ensures reliable stress predictions, provides interpretable parameters, and enables performance‐driven, inverse ...
Siqi Zhan, Hengheng Zhao, Haotian Wang, Zhanjie Liu, Qian Li, Weifeng Zhang, Qingsong Zhao, Liqun Zhang, Jun Liu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological Model of Natural Disaster Preparation Behaviour [PDF]

, 2012
The purpose of the present paper is to review research on psychological model of natural disaster preparation. Although the level of natural disaster risk perception is rising among lay people, it would be widely agreed that not many people actually take
海藤, 千夏, 相川, 沙織, 堀田, 哲郎, 海上, 智昭, 幸田, 重雄   +4 more
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Post disaster reconstruction as an opportunity for development: women's perspective [PDF]

In the past few decades many nations have experienced quite a large number of natural disasters. Although they are developing new systems to avoid or reduce the devastation caused by disasters still many countries are struggling to recover.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Thurairajah, N.   +2 more
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SELECTING LOGISTIC CENTER FOR EARTHQUAKE HELP STATIONS: CASE OF TURKEY

Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi, 2013
Disasters are the events that seriously disturb the function of the society, causing deaths, environmental and economic loss and usually cannot be overcome by using local sources of the affected region.
Orhan Gözaydın, Tuncay Can
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Interdisciplinary Drivers of Puerto Rico’s Informal Housing Cycle: A Review of Key Factors

World
In many disaster-prone regions, lower-income communities face disproportionate impacts due to the prevalence of informal housing. Informal housing, characterized by substandard construction and lack of adherence to building codes, exacerbates ...
Clifton B. Farnsworth, Andrew J. South, Kezia I. Tripp, Keona S. Wu   +3 more
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Harnessing Phase Separation for the Development of High‐Performance Hydrogels

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hydrogels are indispensable for the development of next‐generation bioelectronics, soft robotics, and biomedical devices, where their mechanical properties determine performance and reliability. Among strategies to enhance hydrogel mechanics, phase separation enables controlled heterogeneity resulting in gel networks that are reinforced by ...
Yue Shao, Yiming Ma, Baihao Shao, Molly M. Stevens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing hospital disaster resilience: Key indicator identification and framework innovation

Jàmbá
Globally, the intensity of disasters has significantly increased, primarily because of the effects of climate change. This trend underscores the importance of hospital resilience, given the essential functions hospitals serve in the pre-disaster ...
Brury A. Husaini, Sugiarto Sugiarto, Safrizal Rahman, Rina S. Oktari   +3 more
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Advances and Perspectives in Graphene‐Based Quantum Dots Enabled Neuromorphic Devices

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Graphene‐based QDs are zero‐dimensional carbon nanomaterials with pronounced quantum confinement and tunable electronic structures. Herein, we summarize their synthesis strategies and functionalization methods, and highlight their functional roles and operating mechanisms in devices, as well as recent advances in neuromorphic electronics. We anticipate
Yulin Zhen, Wei Zeng, Zherui Zhao, JiYu Zhao, Ziyan Huang, Zhuo Chen, Kui Zhou, Guanglong Ding, Su‐Ting Han, Ye Zhou   +9 more
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Sub‐Terahertz Memristor Switches Using MoS2 by Liquid–Liquid Interface Assembly

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work introduces application‐ready sub‐terahertz memristor switches fabricated from electrochemically exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets assembled at a liquid–liquid interface. The devices exhibit robust unipolar resistive switching, low insertion loss, and high isolation across 10–110 GHz.
Tomás Mingates, Mohamed E. Ghatas, Jonas Deuermeier, Adam G. Kelly, Joseph Neilson, Jonathan N. Coleman, Luís Mendes, João C. Vaz, Sérgio Matos, Luca Lucci, Antonio Clemente, Zdeněk Sofer, Luís M. Pessoa, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Asal Kiazadeh   +15 more
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