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SoS in Disasters: Why following the manual can be a mistake [PDF]
, 2012 According to both the US Geological Survey and the World Bank, $280 billion dollars could have been saved if $40 billion dollars had been invested in disaster prevention.
Cavallo, A., Ireland, V.
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Risk analysis of the geological hazards during urban tunnel construction in mountainous karst areas
Zhongguo dizhi zaihai yu fangzhi xuebao, 2023 Construction of urban tunnel engineering in mountainous karst regions involves a plethora of uncertain geological risk factors. Due to cost and schedule constraints, hydrogeological and engineering geological risk sources cannot be identified in detail ...
Junyi FU +4 more
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Engineering perspective of Melamchi disaster and Mitigation Methods
, 2021 As Nepal is located in the fragile fragile Himalayan mountain system faces many natural disasters. One of the recent examples of such a disaster is Melamchi debris flow which took place on June 15, 2021, that took the lives of some people and destroyed the property with value millions of dollars.
Joshi, Ishwar +2 more
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Dust removal characteristics of a supersonic antigravity siphon atomization nozzle
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2020 To improve the trapping efficiency of respiratory dust by aerodynamic atomization, reduce the energy consumption and the requirements for the working conditions of nozzles and maintain the health and safety of workers, a comparative experiment evaluating
Tian Zhang +5 more
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ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT AND TRADE-OFF WITH RISKS OF TECHNICAL FACILITIES [PDF]
, 2020 Submitted work “Analysis, management and trade-off with risk of technical facilities“ deals with the all type of risks associated with the technical facilities, particularly with the complex ones, with aim to ensure their safety. It demonstrates the ways
Procházka J., Procházková D.
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Environmental Research Communications, 2023 The microorganisms in sediments play a significant role in Arsenic (As) migration in groundwater systems. However, the impact mechanisms of microbial community structure on As release and enrichment are not completely clear.
Jingru Yang +6 more
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A Robust Deep Learning-Based Damage Identification Approach for SHM Considering Missing Data
Applied Sciences, 2023 Data-driven methods have shown promising results in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. However, most of these approaches rely on the ideal dataset assumption and do not account for missing data, which can significantly impact their real ...
Fan Deng +3 more
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Talking about Hillsborough: ‘panic’ as discourse in survivors' accounts of the 1989 football stadium disaster [PDF]
, 2013 Popular representations of crowd behaviour in disasters are often characterised by irrationalist discourses, in particular ‘mass panic’ despite their rejection by current scientific research.
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Zhongguo dizhi zaihai yu fangzhi xuebaoEffective risk assessment of potential landslide disasters is crucial for informed decision-making in engineering projects. In practical engineering, the risk assessment of individual landslide disasters still relies mainly on qualitative evaluation ...
Dongsheng LIU +3 more
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Energies, 2020 Coherent structures in the turbulent boundary layer were investigated under different stability conditions. Qualitative analyses of the flow field, spatial correlation coefficient field and pre-multiplied wind velocity spectrum showed that the dominant ...
Shujin Laima +3 more
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