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Enhancing Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessments: A Multi-Hazard Approach for Queensland, Australia and Viti Levu, Fiji

Hydrology
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are natural hazards causing extensive damage to society, infrastructure, and the natural environment. Due to the multi-hazardous nature of TCs, comprehensive risk assessments are essential to understanding how to better prepare ...
Jane Nguyen, Michael Kaspi, Kade Berman, Cameron Do, Andrew B. Watkins, Yuriy Kuleshov   +5 more
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A review of studies on community based early warning systems

Jàmbá, 2016
Community-based early warning systems involve community driven collection and analysis of information that enable warning messages to help a community to react to a hazard and reduce the resulting loss or harm.
Margaret Macherera, Moses J. Chimbari
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Long-Term Land Use Land Cover Change in Urban Centers of Southwest Ethiopia From a Climate Change Perspective

Frontiers in Climate, 2020
Long-term urban land use land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and climate change trends in Southwest Ethiopia's four urban centers were examined for 60 years.
Tesfaye Dessu, Diriba Korecha, Debela Hunde, Adefires Worku   +3 more
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Machine Learning for Predicting Spatially Variable Lateral Hydraulic Conductivity: A Step Toward Efficient Hydrological Model Calibration and Global Applicability

Water Resources Research
Recent advances in machine learning (ML) techniques show promise for estimating soil hydraulic properties from soil data sets. Pedo‐transfer functions (PTFs) can facilitate the mapping of the complex relationship between soil properties and soil ...
Awad M. Ali, Ruben O. Imhoff, Albrecht H. Weerts   +2 more
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Retrospective Analysis of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions in Pediatric Patients With Mixed Chimerism After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk, Sebastian Michaelis, Michaela Döring, Thomas Eichholz, Ursula Holzer, Martin Ebinger, Tim Flaadt, Rupert Handgretinger, Peter Lang, Jan Frederic Weller, Markus Mezger   +10 more
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Referral Patterns and Diagnostic Timeliness in Pediatric Cancer: A Hospital‐Based Study in Indonesia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Timely diagnosis and treatment are critical for improving survival among children with cancer. In low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), delays are common and may be influenced by fragmented referral pathways and diagnostic limitations.
Nur Melani Sari, Regina Hadi Putri, Fatimah Assyifa, Judith Spijkerman, Gertjan Johannes Kaspers, Susi Susanah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Displacement Based Earthquake Early Warning Systems

Doğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi, 2020
Displacement based earthquake observations are becoming more common and application fields are becoming larger. The determination of the earthquake magnitude in a short time after the earthquake plays an important role both for Earthquake Early Warning ...
Murat Doruk Şentürk, Bahadır Aktuğ
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Examining the feasiblity of informal settlement flood early warning systems : focus on the urban flood-risk experience of Kosovo and Masiphumelele residents, Cape Town South Africa [PDF]

, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-117).This thesis examines the feasibility of applying people-centred approaches to flood early warning systems (EWS) in informal settlements in the City of Cape Town, particularly, through the experiences ...
Solomon, F J, Solomon, F.J .
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Learning Change from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images: Performance Evaluation of a Support Vector Machine to Detect Earthquake and Tsunami-Induced Changes

Remote Sensing, 2016
This study evaluates the performance of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to learn and detect changes in single- and multi-temporal X- and L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images under varying conditions.
Marc Wieland, Wen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki
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Nurses' Experiences and Perceptions of two Early Warning Score systems to Identify Patient Deterioration—A Focus Group Study

Nursing Open, 2021
Aims To explore Registered Nurses' experiences and perceptions with National Early Warning Score and Individual Early Warning Score to identify patient deterioration. Design A qualitative exploratory design. Methods Six focus groups were conducted at six
Caroline S. Langkjaer, Dorthe G. Bove, Pernille B. Nielsen, Kasper K. Iversen, Morten H. Bestle, Gitte Bunkenborg   +5 more
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