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FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program: Background and Considerations for Congress [PDF]

, 2015
[Excerpt] The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq., henceforth the Stafford Act) confers upon the President a broad set of authorities “to alleviate the suffering and damage” of affected tribal, state ...
Brown, Jared T, Richardson, Daniel J
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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

Advanced Technologies for Characterizing and Detecting Battery Thermal Failure: A Review

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Illustration of advanced characterization techniques to predict battery thermal failure. ABSTRACT Energy storage is essential in accelerating the global transition toward clean and sustainable energy across various sectors. Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) have become increasingly significant for energy storage due to their high energy density, low ...
Yongxiu Chen, Zeyu Sun, Wei Zong, Yuhang Dai, Kai Ling Ng, Paul R. Shearing   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Vulnerability and Building Resilience in the Post-Disaster Context: A Case Study of the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake Recovery Effort

Jurnal Sains & Teknologi Lingkungan, 2016
As the human and economic costs of natural disaster events have dramatically increased over the past three decades, governments, researchers and humanitarian agencies have increasingly focused on reducing disaster impacts and increasing the resilience of
Erin Joakim
doaj   +1 more source

Molecularly Bridged Heterointerface Engineering: Designing Transparent, Wear‐Resistant, Hard yet Flexible Optoelectronic Protective Film

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A molecular‐bridging heterogeneous interface engineering strategy is introduced to combine a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)‐based hard coating with a colorless polyimide (CPI)‐based flexible layer. The robust heterogeneous interface endows the integrated system with the superior properties of both layers and their synergistic ...
Huiyang Lu, Zihui Liu, Jianan Yuan, Yunhao Wei, Shuangfei Xiang, Qinghua Lu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Recovery within a Resilience Framework: Empirical Insights and Policy Implications from Regional Australia

Politics and Governance, 2016
Within Australia’s federal system, responsibility for preventing, preparing for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters is shared between the three tiers of government. Intergovernmental policy and funding arrangements are premised on shared
Lex Drennan, Jim McGowan, Anne Tiernan
doaj   +1 more source

Bioinspired Morphology‐Decoupled Soft Gripper with Enhanced Bidirectional Grasping Capability

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by biological predation, a novel gripper decouples cross‐modal grasping via dual morphological configurations. Synergistically integrating hybrid rigid and soft coupled fingers with a metamaterial palm, the system performs active compliant grasping for static objects and passive cage capture for dynamic targets.
Yedong Huang, Dazhong Yu, Baijin Mao, Fangming Li, Juntian Qu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Relationship between Place Branding and Disaster Recovery Potential

Maketingu rebyu
Building of disaster-resilient local communities by improving soft power has become an issue in recent years. Therefore, this study utilizes knowledge of place branding and presents a comprehensive model in which disaster recovery potential is the ...
Shinnosuke Kimura, Masanobu Nagao, Toshiaki Yagi   +2 more
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In Situ Polyurea Integration for Self‐Healing, Durable Transparent Electromagnetic‐Interference Shielding Film

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A steric‐hindrance molecular engineering strategy uses dimethyl maleate (DMM) to convert poly(1,4‐butanediol) bis(4‐aminobenzoate) (PBDAB) into a precursor with reduced reactivity via Michael addition, thereby retarding the curing process to form a transparent, ultraflexible, and self‐healable secondary‑amine polyurea (PuSA) with a crosslinked network.
Sinan Zheng, Shanyu Zhao, Gengjiang Yao, Yue Liu, Fei Pan, Mingrui Han, Zecheng Li, Shanbo Li, Jiurong Liu, Na Wu, Zhihui Zeng   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sono‐Mechanogenetics: Linking Ultrasound Physics With Cellular Mechanobiology

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Sono‐mechanogenetics links ultrasound physics with cellular mechanotransduction to enable noninvasive control of engineered biological systems. Acoustic forces generate distinct deformation modes that activate intracellular signaling pathways, which can be coupled to synthetic gene circuits to regulate diverse cellular functions, including gene ...
Yunjia Qu, Fan Wei, Chi Woo Yoon, Qifa Zhou, Yingxiao Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source