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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 ...
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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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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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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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Social Protection and Disaster Recovery
, 2020 This note highlights the critical contribution that social protection can make to a broader disaster recovery effort by helping directly to disaster-affected households.
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
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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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Earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood, and CBRNE: How can we prepare for disasters?
Renal Replacement Therapy, 2023 It has long been known that dialysis treatment is susceptible to disasters. In fact, the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 and the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster in 2011 severely affected dialysis treatment; however, in the previous disasters ...
Tomoyuki Yamakawa
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Evaluation of Post-Earthquake, Tsunami, and Liquefaction Disaster Waste Management in Palu [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The Central Sulawesi region is known as the meeting place for three of the world's main tectonics. As a result, the region is prone to natural disasters, especially those caused by the movement of these plates, which has prompted a shift in the Palu-Koro
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Disaster preparedness of Hiroshima community health nurses: A mixed-method study
Progress in Disaster Science, 2023 The number of natural disasters has increased globally as a result of climate change. Community nurses become frontline workers in disaster-struck areas, protecting their clients from harm and risk.
Mayumi Kako, Alison Hutton
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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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