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A National-Scale Assessment of Population and Built-Environment Exposure in Tsunami Evacuation Zones
Geosciences, 2020 Evacuation zones are a critical tool for mitigating loss of life in tsunami events. In New Zealand, tsunami evacuation zones are implemented by emergency management agencies at regional or sub-regional scales, providing national coverage for populated ...
Ryan Paulik +2 more
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Laboratory investigation of daily food intake and gut evacuation in larvae of African catfish Clarias gariepinus under different feeding conditions [PDF]
, 2010 Temporary accumulation of ascorbic acid 2-sulfate (AAS) was measured to estimate food intake and gut evacuation in larvae of African catfish. Fish larvae were fed decapsulated cysts of Artemia containing AAS.
García-Ortega, A. +5 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesExtreme weather events and other hazardous events often require a range of strategies to safely shelter people, distribute resources, and facilitate recovery efforts.
Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco +3 more
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Learning from Wildfire Disaster Experience in California NICUs
Children, 2020 Wildfires have been affecting California greatly, and vulnerable patients in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are not exempt. Our aim was to learn how personnel working in NICUs of California hospitals handled issues of neonatal transfer during ...
Amy L. Ma, Ronald S. Cohen, Henry C. Lee
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Simulating the Effects of Gate Machines on Crowd Traffic Based on the Modified Social Force Model
Mathematics, 2023 Gate machines, such as ticket gates in stations and secure gates in office buildings, are very common in people’s daily lives. On the one hand, the passage between the gates is not wide enough for pedestrians to pass through, which may affect the traffic
Xue Lin +3 more
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Cross-comparative analysis of evacuation behavior after earthquakes using mobile phone data
, 2018 Despite the importance of predicting evacuation mobility dynamics after large scale disasters for effective first response and disaster relief, our general understanding of evacuation behavior remains limited because of the lack of empirical evidence on ...
Ikemoto, Satoshi +3 more
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VELOS : a VR platform for ship-evacuation analysis [PDF]
, 2009 Virtual Environment for Life On Ships (VELOS) is a multi-user Virtual Reality (VR) system that aims to support designers to assess (early in the design process) passenger and crew activities on a ship for both normal and hectic conditions of operations ...
A.I. Ginnis +14 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 The evacuation and abandonment of large passenger ships, involving thousands of passengers, is a safety-critical task where techniques and systems that can improve the complex decision-making process and the timely response to emergencies on board are of
Angelos Stamou +6 more
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The Cry Wolf Effect in Evacuation: a Game-Theoretic Approach
, 2019 In today's terrorism-prone and security-focused world, evacuation emergencies, drills, and false alarms are becoming more and more common. Compliance to an evacuation order made by an authority in case of emergency can play a key role in the outcome of ...
Mohlin, Erik +2 more
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Effect of Pets on Human Behavior and Stress in Disaster
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Animal-related consequences were not anticipated in disaster preparedness planning in Japan at the time of its massive earthquakes in 2011. Evacuation failure was quite common due to pet ownership in this disaster.
Aki Tanaka +4 more
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