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Media, Institutions, and Government Action: Prevention vs. Palliation in the Time of Cholera [PDF]
This paper studies how media and the quality of institutions affect government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action ...
Chongwoo Choe, Paul A. Raschky
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Liquid Metal Sensors for Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review thoroughly reviews liquid metal sensors in soft robots. Their unique material properties like high conductivity and good biocompatibility are analyzed. Working principles are classified, and applications in environmental perception, motion detection, and human—robot interaction are introduced.
Qi Zhang +7 more
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Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robotic Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores the transformative role of multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) in the development of soft robotic systems. It presents current techniques, materials, and design strategies that enable functionally graded and adaptive structures.
Ritik Raj +2 more
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`Natural' Disaster, Conflict and Aid Allocation [PDF]
This paper looks into aid allocation in the response to multiple crises, focusing more specifically on the cases of concomitance between so-called `natural' hazard/disaster and conflict situations.
Aude-Sophie Rodella-Boitreaud, Natascha Wagner
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Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang +14 more
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Frontiers in Earth ScienceThe design of check dam openings for debris flow control has been identified as a longstanding challenge, with no definitive solution yet identified. In this study, a quantitative analysis of the control efficacy of check dams with varying opening rates ...
Jinyan Huang +7 more
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Detection of the spatial patterns of water storage variation over China in recent 70 years
Scientific Reports, 2017 Terrestrial water storage (TWS) variation is crucial for global hydrological cycles and water resources management under climatic changes. In the previous studies, changes in water storage of some part of China have been studied with GRACE data in recent
Zheng Chen +6 more
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Disability and health-related rehabilitation in international disaster relief
Global Health Action, 2011 Natural disasters result in significant numbers of disabling impairments. Paradoxically, however, the traditional health system response to natural disasters largely neglects health-related rehabilitation as a strategic intervention.To examine the role ...
On behalf of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine's Sub-Committee on Rehabilitation Disaster Relief +7 more
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Monetary policy and natural disasters in a DSGE model: how should the Fed have responded to Hurricane Katrina? [PDF]
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, speculation arose that the Federal Reserve might respond by easing monetary policy. This paper uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to investigate the appropriate monetary policy ...
Benjamin D. Keen, Michael R. Pakko
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Investigating the status of disaster management within a world-wide context: a case study analysis [PDF]
, 2010 Disasters can be described as feats of spontaneous occurrences, in that they can happen at any minute at any time. There are two classifications of disasters, which are, natural disasters that cannot be predicted and continuously occur throughout ...
Alinden, CM +2 more
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