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Applied Sciences, 2021 Permanent ground displacements/deformations caused by earthquakes can seriously challenge the safety of the nuclear power plants. The state-of-the-art hazard analysis methods provide a fault displacement hazard curve, i.e., the annual probability of ...
Tamás János Katona +2 more
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Earthquake hazard characterization by using entropy: application to northern Chilean earthquakes [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 The mechanical description of the seismic cycle has an energetic analogy in terms of statistical physics and the second law of thermodynamics. In this context, an earthquake can be considered a phase transition, where continuous reorganization of ...
A. Posadas +5 more
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Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2012 The objectives of this paper are to highlight the benefits of sharing information to Western Pacific Region Member States and to identify similarities at the regional level in terms of food safety issues and public health protection. In addition, it aims
Jenny Bishop, Philippe Verger
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Advances in Risk Assessment and Early Warning Techniques of Rice Quality and Safety
Liang you shipin ke-ji, 2023 Rice quality and safety is important for achieving national food security and social stability. Rice has been contaminated with heavy metals, pesticide residues, and fungal toxins, which has affected the healthy development of China’s rice industry and ...
WANG Yin +5 more
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Characterizing the nature and variability of avalanche hazard in western Canada [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 The snow and avalanche climate types maritime, continental and transitional are well established and have been used extensively to characterize the general nature of avalanche hazard at a location, study inter-seasonal and large-scale spatial ...
B. Shandro, P. Haegeli
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Environment International, 2022 Systematic evidence maps (SEMs) are increasingly used to inform decision-making and risk management priority-setting and to serve as problem formulation tools to refine the focus of questions that get addressed in full systematic reviews. Within the U.S.
Kristina A. Thayer +26 more
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Power–Linear Hazard Distribution Via k-th Record Values and Characterization
, 2023 The power-linear hazard distribution was introduced by [1] as a mixture of power and linear hazard function. This distribution embodies the many lifetime distributions.
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Drought characterization and risk assessment are of great significance due to drought’s negative impact on human health, economy, and ecosystem. This paper investigates drought characterization and risk assessment in the Lempa River basin in Central ...
Ali Khoshnazar +2 more
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Neurobehavioral hazard identification and characterization for caffeine
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2016 This report evaluates the scientific literature on caffeine with respect to potential central nervous system (CNS) effects, specifically effects on sleep, anxiety, and aggression/risk-taking. Caffeine has been the subject of more scientific safety studies than any other food ingredient. It is important, therefore, to evaluate new studies in the context
Turnbull, Duncan +2 more
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Hazard categorization of 100K east and 100K west in-basin fuel characterization program activities [PDF]
, 1994 This report documents the determination that the in-basin activities at 105 K East (KE) and 105 K West (KW) on the Hanford Reservation associated with the fuel characterization program are classified as Hazard Category 3 (hazard analysis shows the ...
Alwardt, L. D.
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