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Ground deformation monitoring of landslides and precipitation-triggered mechanisms using GBInSAR
Frontiers in Earth ScienceLandslides are common in mountainous, hilly, and steep-slope regions, posing serious threats to human life, infrastructure, and ecological systems. Precipitation is a major triggering factor that can rapidly destabilize slopes by increasing moisture ...
Di Yao, Di Yao, Yingchao Dai, Ziwei Zhao
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Permanent magnet putty (PMP) integrates high‐coercivity NdFeB particles with a dynamic polyborosiloxane–Ecoflex matrix, achieving rapid self‐healing (90% mechanical recovery in 10 s) and magnetic recovery within 20 min. With twice the sensitivity of commercial putties, PMP enables precise 5–30 N force detection and discrimination between pressing and ...
Ruotong Zhao +5 more
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Ethnic heterogeneity and the probability of technological disasters [PDF]
This paper uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to examine how ethnic heterogeneity affects the probability of technological disasters. Estimation results showed that ethnic heterogeneity increased the probability of technological disasters.Disaster,
Yamamura, Eiji
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards & RiskThe increasing occurrence of disasters worldwide has motivated researchers to continuously evaluate potential technological advances to support disaster management (DM) as well as emergency response. The advent of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Marina Tavra +3 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and hygiene rules make conventional suction and scripted motions unreliable. We present ChicGrasp, an end‐to‐end hardware‐software co‐designed imitation learning framework, to offer a ...
Amirreza Davar +8 more
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Death tolls from natural disasters: Influence of interactions between fiscal decentralization, institution, and economic development [PDF]
Previous research shows that the effect of decentralization on damage caused by natural disasters will differ according a country’s level of economic development. To investigate this matter further, this paper uses cross-country data from 1990 to 2001 to
Yamamura, Eiji
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu +5 more
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The Macroeconomic Impacts of Natural Disasters: New Evidence from Floods [PDF]
We analyze the economic impacts of floods using new data on 3,184 large flood events in 118 countries between 1985 and 2008. We use panel vector auto-regressions to trace the dynamic response of output to three types of flood shocks. Our results robustly
Cunado, Juncal, Ferreira, Susana
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Challenges of Social Trust in Disaster Management Focusing on COVID-19 in Iran: Recommendations for Gaining it Again [PDF]
Health in Emergencies & Disasters QuarterlyBackground: Social trust in relief organizations is one of the prerequisites for community preparedness for disasters. This study aims to explore the challenges of social trust in disaster management in Iran with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, and ...
Hamid Reza khankeh +11 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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