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Poverty and disasters [PDF]

Disaster relief ; Hurricane Katrina ...
Community Affairs Department
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide prevention during disasters and public health emergencies: a systematic review

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDisasters and public health emergencies increasingly affect populations around the world, posing significant wide-ranging challenges for societies as well as for effective public health and suicide prevention. Intervention research is essential
Lennart Reifels, Karolina Krysinska, Karl Andriessen   +2 more
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries.
Drabo, Alassane, Mbaye, Linguère Mously
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Bridging the Risk Modeling Gap: Expanding Climate-Related Risk Insurance Through Global Risk Assessment [PDF]

, 2016
In 2015, more than 1,000 natural disasters inflicted some $100 billion worth of economic damages around the world. These natural disasters included severe storms, flooding, extreme temperatures, droughts, and wildfires—all of which are expected to ...
Ben Bovarnick, Jerusalem Demsas, Pete Ogden   +2 more
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Edible Pouch Motors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Edible robotics is an emerging field that leverages edible materials to construct robotic systems. This study presents a method to create thin, lightweight, yet powerful edible soft actuators, namely edible pouch motors. The successful operation of these edible actuators and grippers renders their potential to advance future developments in edible ...
Keigo Takahashi, Kazuma Takai, Ryuma Niiyama, Jun Shintake   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster ethics [PDF]

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2014
Bert, Gordijn, Henk, Ten Have
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Disasters and disaster management

Anusandhaan - Vigyaan Shodh Patrika, 2016
Disasters are the result of imbalance in nature that leads to hindered development and progress. Besides natural calamities Mare are several manmade situations. Natural disasters are earthquake, Tsunami, landslide, eruption of volcanoes, draught, flood, melting of glaciers etc.
openaire   +1 more source

Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
wiley   +1 more source

Risks after disasters: a note on the effects of precautionary saving on equity premiums [PDF]

This paper studies the effects on equity premiums of Âgrisks after disastersÂh, which are defined as a sharp rise in volatility of real per capita GDP growth rates immediately following disasters. This paper makes three contributions.
Shiba Suzuki
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