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Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Activity in Public Space, 2019–2020
Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) Visits to a Public Venue Technology Type(s) mobile phone Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo Sample Characteristic - Environment public building Sample Characteristic - Location United States of ...
Christa Brelsford +5 more
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Socio-economic predictors of public understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic
Heliyon, 2021 The COVID-19 (Coronavirus 2019) pandemic has proven to be the biggest global shock since World War II. That war resulted in 5.5 million deaths. The number of COVID-19-infected persons exceeded 13 million in the first 6 months of the pandemic and many ...
Md Rifat Hossain +3 more
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Brief communication: Loss and damage from a catastrophic landslide in Nepal [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 This brief communication reports key findings of a recent piece of research that studied the impacts of the 2014 Jure landslide in Sindhupalchok (Nepal) and the effectiveness of household preventive and coping measures.
K. van der Geest, M. Schindler
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 IntroductionEnabling health care facilities to deal with impairments or outages of water supply and sewage systems is essential and particularly important in the face of growing risk levels due to climate change and natural hazards.
Sophie van der Heijden +4 more
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Locating Leadership and Political Will in Social Policy: The Story of India’s MGNREGA
Politics and Governance, 2020 The term ‘political will’ is often conveniently used to explain the success or failure of any policy or programme. It has emerged as the “sine qua non of policy success which is never defined except by its absence” (Hammergren, 1998, p. 12). Therefore, a
Ujjwal Krishna, Chris Roche
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ReSFlow: A Remote Sensing Imagery Data-Flow for Improved Model Generalization
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021 As satellite imagery collections continue to grow at an astonishing rate, so is the demand for automated and scalable object detection and segmentation.
Dalton Lunga +3 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2022 River floods are a common environmental hazard, often causing severe damages, loss of lives and livelihood impacts around the globe. The transboundary Lower Mono River Basin of Togo and Benin is no exception in this regard, as it is frequently affected ...
Mario Wetzel +6 more
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The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific
Politics and Governance, 2020 There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on programs run by international development agencies.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The lockdown of March 2020 in India witnessed one of the largest movements of migrants in the country. The state of Kerala was quick and efficient in responding to the challenges posed by the lockdown on its migrant population and in supporting its ...
Mishal Alice Mathews +2 more
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International Journal of Public Health, 2023 Objectives: This study intends to evaluate Dhaka city slum dwellers’ responses to Dengue fever (DF).Methods: 745 individuals participated in a KAP survey that was pre-tested. Face-to-face interviews were performed to obtain data.
Md. Mostafizur Rahman +16 more
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