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Criticality assessment of energy infrastructure
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2014 After the last major accidents in the energy sector of the last decade (USA and Canada (2003), India (2012), Russian-Ukrainian (2009)), energy infrastructure criticality assessment has become one of the most important issues.
Juozas Augutis +3 more
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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Infrastructures [PDF]
, 2021 Abstract The “renaturing” of cities through an increased emphasis on the use of nature-based solutions (NBS) potentially offers urban areas the opportunity to deliver multiple environmental and socioeconomic benefits. In particular, approaches linked to NBS can limit the degree of climate exposure and vulnerability impacting upon ...
Barker, Adam; id_orcid 0000-0001-8835-7837 +4 more
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Assessment of Rehabilitation Infrastructure in Peru [PDF]
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2018 To assess rehabilitation infrastructure in Peru in terms of the World Health Organization (WHO) health systems building blocks.Anonymous quantitative survey; questions were based on the WHO's Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care and rehabilitation professionals' input.Large public hospitals and referral centers and an online survey platform.Convenience
Fuhs, Amy K. +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Electrokinetic (EK) remediation methods can remove heavy metals from the soil, but the removal efficiency is generally low. In this paper, indoor remediation experiments of simulated copper-contaminated clay under four different types of electrolyte ...
Rong Chen +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Skid resistance is a significant feature that provides consistent traffic safety management for road pavements. An appropriate level of Skid resistance describes the contribution that the pavement surface makes to tire/road friction, and the surface of ...
Mezgeen Rasol +6 more
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Assessing ecological infrastructure investments [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Conventional markets can underprovide ecosystem services. Deliberate creation of a market for ecosystem services [e.g., a payments for ecosystem services (PES) scheme] can close the gap. The new ecosystem service market alters behaviors and quantities of ecosystem service provided and reveals prices for the ecosystems service: a ...
Wiktor Adamowicz +9 more
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Buildings, 2023 Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in a nation’s economic and societal progress. However, due to the substantial expenses and the constraints of a limited government budget, the need to assess the condition of each infrastructure and identify those ...
David Boix-Cots +2 more
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Improving intelligent dasymetric mapping population density estimates at 30 m resolution for the conterminous United States by excluding uninhabited areas [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2022 Population change impacts almost every aspect of global change from land use, to greenhouse gas emissions, to biodiversity conservation, to the spread of disease.
J. Baynes, A. Neale, T. Hultgren
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Assessing the Vulnerability of the Fiber Infrastructure to Disasters [PDF]
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2009 Communication networks are vulnerable to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods, as well as to physical attacks, such as an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack. Such real- world events happen in specific geographical locations and disrupt specific parts of the network.
Sebastian Neumayer +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 There is often obvious particle breakage for silica sand under high-stress, which will lead to the bearing capacity reduction and excessive settlement of the foundation.
Rong Chen +5 more
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