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Current Standards of Monitoring Models in Healthcare Settings

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
AI/ML‐enabled medical devices are entering clinical practice faster than monitoring standards mature. This review highlights gaps in postmarket surveillance, limited use of predetermined change‐control plans, and the need for ongoing performance tracking, drift detection, explainability, and workflow‐aware governance to support safer, more reliable ...
Alan Kay, Daljit Takher, Wenting Liu, Emily Wittrup, Gilbert S. Omenn, Kayvan Najarian   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Education Students’ Disaster Awareness, Preparedness, and Resiliency Preparation

Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Natural disaster affects everyone’s lives regardless of position and status in life but its impact can be mitigated by doing necessary preparations. This survey-correlational research design aimed to determine the disaster awareness, preparedness, and ...
Mary Grace C. Malonecio
doaj   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on Additive Manufacturing of Smart Components: Technologies, Applications, and Future Scope

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
Aiswarya Rony, P. M. Ushasree, Michael Short, Jinoop Arackal Narayanan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

HeaTrace: A Parametric Design‐to‐Fabrication Workflow for Thermally Programmable Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A programmable thermal actuation workflow enables soft robots to be designed and fabricated with embedded heaters that drive multiple responses. By combining performance‐driven heater design with multimaterial fabrication, the system supports thermally triggered shape change, stiffness tuning, and thermochromic visual response, as demonstrated through ...
Naresh Kumar Thanigaivel, Thileepan Stalin, Elgar Kanhere, Aby Raj Plamootil Mathai, Konstantin Sakharov, Yong Lin, Hirusha Madhuwantha Loku Hettige, Gumawang Hiramandala, Shlomo Magdassi, Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster event: Window of opportunity to implement global disaster policies? [PDF]

, 2013
Disasters have been predominantly construed as destructive events causing loss of lives, livelihoods and hard-won development. Much less attention has been paid to the constructive nature of disasters as creating potential windows of opportunities to ...
Siambabala B. Manyena, Manyena, Bernard, Manyena, Siambabala B, Manyena, Siambabala B.   +3 more
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Tailoring emergency and disaster preparedness engagement approaches for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities [PDF]

, 2023
The impacts of emergency and disasters pose greater challenges to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. Several barriers prevent CALD communities from adequately preparing for such events, thus contributing to increased vulnerability.
Hayes, Hailey
core   +1 more source

Does livelihood risk matter in disaster preparedness? Insights from flood risk areas of rural China

Climate Risk Management
Farmers in flood-risk areas are exposed to disruptions in their daily production and livelihood operations. However, disaster preparedness can reduce risk and minimize household losses, thereby increasing livelihood sustainability for farming families ...
Wei Liu, Pengfei Qi, Jie Xu, Marcus Feldman, Dingde Xu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Disaster Preparedness using Murphys Law [PDF]

, 2014
Murphy s Law is commonly expressed that if anything can go wrong it will and is believed to have been founded between 1940 and 1950 This law has been associated with many problems and failures Murphy s Law can at times be seen as a threat ...
Joy R.A Otolo
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Barriers and drivers influencing people's behaviour towards COVID-19 public health and social measures in the Netherlands

Public Health in Practice
Background: The disease burden of COVID-19 infection, morbidity, and mortality was unevenly distributed across different population subgroups. A one-size-fits-all approach may not reach all groups.
Valérie Eijrond, Nora Bünemann, Nicky Renna, Brett Craig, Katrine Bach Habersaat, Hélène Voeten, Pearl Dykstra, Anja Schreijer   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source