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Tsunami en Asie du Sud-Est : retour sur la gestion d’un cataclysme naturel apocalyptique
Cybergeo, 2005 The tsunami that affected the Indian ocean’s rims on December 26, 2004 claimed close to 226 000 lives, mainly on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which suffered overwhelming devastation.
Pierre Ozer, Florence De Longueville
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This review provides an overview of bio‐based polymer sources, their unique functional properties and their environmental impact, and addresses their role as sustainable alternatives. It discusses end‐of‐life options, including composting and anaerobic digestion for renewable energy.
Sabina Kolbl Repinc +8 more
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Spatial–Temporal snapshots of global natural disaster impacts Revealed from EM-DAT for 1900-2015
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019 Natural disasters causing human, economic, or environmental losses include all types of geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, climatological, or biological events that disturb human and natural environments.
Guoqiang Shen, Seong Nam Hwang
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Public-private partnership for earthquake mitigation involving retrofit and insurance
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2015 Public-Private Partnerships involving governments and insurers have been used worldwide for mitigation of natural-hazards. However, the implementation of such systems in developing countries presents problems for their key stakeholders.
Xijun Yao +3 more
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Geomagnetic extreme statistics for Europe [PDF]
, 2009 Rapidly changing geomagnetic field variations constitute a natural hazard, for example to grounded power grids and pipeline networks. To understand this hazard we have continuous magnetic measurements across the world for typically less than 100 years.
Dawson, Ewan +2 more
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Alcohol‐induced altered glycans in human tracheal epithelial cells promote bacterial adhesion
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Alcohol induces altered glycans to promote bacteria adhesion. Heavy alcohol drinking is known to increase the risk of bacterial pneumonia. However, the link between alcohol levels and risk of infection remains underexplored. Recently, we found that alcohol induced α2‐6sialo mucin O‐glycans in human tracheobronchial epithelial cells, which mediated the ...
Pi‐Wan Cheng +2 more
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Cutaneous Melanoma Drives Metabolic Changes in the Aged Bone Marrow Immune Microenvironment
Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, increasingly affects older adults. Our study reveals that melanoma induces changes in iron and lipid levels in the bone marrow, impacting immune cell populations and increasing susceptibility to ferroptosis.
Alexis E. Carey +12 more
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IonKit-NH: a MATLAB-based toolkit for ionospheric detection of natural hazard [PDF]
, 2023 Long Tang
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Geosciences, 2013 Presented herein is a cartographic procedure that is easy to utilise and at low-cost, which facilitates the first stages of planning and management of a naturally protected space and considers the geotechnical parameters that influence human activity ...
Mariano Yenes +3 more
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The Izmir City and Natural Hazard Risks [PDF]
Turkey has many geological disadvantages such as sitting on top of active tectonic plate boundaries, and why having avalanche, flood, and landslide and drought prone areas.
Ahmet Kivanc Kutluca
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