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NATURAL DISASTERS — BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE? [PDF]
The Singapore Economic Review, 2011 This study examines the impact of natural disasters on stock market returns and on industries that are likely to be affected by such disasters. We find that different natural disasters have different effects on stock markets and industries. Our evidence suggests that while earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes could negatively affect market returns ...
Hardjo Koerniadi +2 more
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Decentralization and natural disasters [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government.
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 Complex natural disasters often cause people to suffer hardships, and they can cause a large number of casualties. A population that has been affected by a natural disaster is at high risk and desperately in need of help.
Changxiu Cheng +4 more
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How to Prepare Disaster Mitigation Knowledge for Prospective Teachers in Elementary School?
Al-Ishlah: Jurnal Pendidikan, 2021 Knowledge of disaster mitigation is one of the must-have primary school teacher candidates. The research tries to identify the knowledge of prospective elementary school teachers about natural, non-natural, and social disaster mitigation.
Eddy Noviana +4 more
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Microfluidic active pressure and flow stabiliser
Scientific Reports, 2021 In microfluidics, a well-known challenge is to obtain reproducible results, often constrained by unstable pressures or flow rates. Today, there are existing stabilisers made for low-pressure microfluidics or high-pressure macrofluidics, often consisting ...
Simon Södergren +2 more
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Activities of the Local Government During a State of Natural Disaster
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2021 As one of the states of exception, a state of a natural disaster often makes public administration, including local governments, take actions that restrict the sphere of human rights and civil liberties.
Małgorzata Czuryk
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019 Research on the emergency facility location-allocation problem has important theoretical and practical significance for responses to large-scale emergencies.
Yunjia Ma +4 more
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Assessing Natural Disaster Vulnerability in Indonesia Using a Weighted Index Method [PDF]
Nature Environment and Pollution TechnologyNatural disasters are natural activities that can disrupt various aspects. Natural disasters cannot be avoided, but the impact of natural disasters can be minimized through mitigation.
Faradiba Faradiba, St. Fatimah Azzahra, Taat Guswantoro, Lodewik Zet and Nathasya Grisella Manullang
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Thermally controlled microfluidic back pressure regulator
Scientific Reports, 2022 By using the temperature dependence of viscosity, we introduce a novel type of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip back pressure regulator (BPR) that can be integrated into a micro-total-analysis-system.
Karolina Svensson +2 more
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Natural disasters and their aftermath [PDF]
International Psychiatry, 2006 The chronic trauma endured by the people of Iraq, Darfur and Zimbabwe is a subject regularly brought to our attention in the UK by the news media. The mental health risk attributable to living in a situation in which each day brings the threat of more disruption, another risk to life and limb, the loss of people you love, perhaps of your home, is great.
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