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AgricultureEvaluating rural households’ subjective well-being (SWB) and identifying its determinants is crucial for rural sustainable development. This study takes Diqing Prefecture in the Tibetan region of China as a case, aiming to address two key research ...
Di Lei +4 more
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Post-tsunami road reconstruction in Sri Lanka: Efficacy of mainstreaming disaster risk reduction [PDF]
, 2013 Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all roads in the affected areas in Sri Lanka were inaccessible during the immediate aftermath of the disaster either due to the damages they sustained or poor networking of roads and lack of contingency planning ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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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 +4 more
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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 +4 more
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The role of accountability within disaster risk governance [PDF]
, 2016 During the decade that followed the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action in 2005, calls for greater public, private and civic accountability to reduce risk and vulnerability became increasingly vocal.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This research demonstrates that incorporating 10 wt.% NASICON‐type Na3Zr2Si2PO12 into Na3SbS4 sulfide electrolytes mitigates interfacial instability and structural defects. The resulting composite enhances ionic conductivity to 3.97 * 10−4 S cm−1 and reduces activation energy.
Celastin Bebina Thairiyarayar +4 more
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Drought propagation as a nonlinear amplifier of ecohydrological damage
Communications Earth & EnvironmentMeteorological drought can propagate to soil and ecological droughts, triggering cascading disruptions in ecosystem functioning. However, whether the ecohydrological damage—the sum of standardized vegetation greenness and soil moisture losses—is ...
Zhuoran Qu +7 more
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The Role of Trust in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Critical Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Bonfanti RC +5 more
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Reducing People?s Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Communities and Resilience [PDF]
The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use.
Cannon, Terry
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Heritage and Resilience: Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster Risks [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the unique role of cultural heritage in disaster risk reduction. Itintroduces various approaches to protect heritage from irreplaceable loss and considers ways to draw upon heritage as an asset in building the resilience of ...
Albrito, Paola +10 more
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