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Enhancing Ontario’s Rural Infrastructure Preparedness: Inter-Community Service Sharing in a Changing Climate — Policy Brief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This policy brief draws together the insights from a three-year (2016-19) Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) funded research study.
Gunson, Bryce, Murphy, Brenda
core   +1 more source

3D‐Printed Soft Magnetoactive Origami Actuators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Soft magnetoactive films are 3D‐printed using ink with up to 75 wt.% ferromagnetic particles and dual UV/heat curing, then integrated with various origami structures. The films are flexible, magnetically responsive, and programmable, enabling flexible integration with origami without hindering shape‐changeability.
Sen Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Master plan: banks can learn from Greensburg's recovery [PDF]

open access: yes
As bankers rebuild after the May 2007 tornado that obliterated this Kansas town, the need for financial institutions' emergency preparedness is reinforced.
Eric Robbins, Ken Spong
core  

Culture and disaster risk management - citizens’ reactions and opinions during Citizen Summit in Lisbon, Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The analyses and results in this document are based on the data collected during the fifth Citizen Summit held in Lisbon, Portugal on April 14th 2018. Like the previous four Citizen Summits held in Romania, Malta, Italy and Germany, this Citizen Summit ...
Appleby-Arnold, Sandra   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Solvent‐Free Bonding Mechanisms and Microstructure Engineering in Dry Electrode Technology for Lithium‐Ion Batteries

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dry electrode technology revolutionizes battery manufacturing by eliminating toxic solvents and energy‐intensive drying. This work details two promising techniques: dry spray deposition and polymer fibrillation. How their unique solvent‐free bonding mechanisms create uniform microstructures for thicker, denser electrodes, boosting energy density and ...
Yuhao Liang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and variability, energy and disaster management: produced risks without produced solutions: rethinking the approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Accelerated climate change and increasing climate variability is the single largest threat to the international goals of sustainable development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and disaster risk reduction.
O'Brien, Geoff   +3 more
core   +1 more source

High throughput method for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater by Nanopore sequencing

open access: yesHeliyon
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hypothesized that wastewater-based surveillance could be used to monitor SARS-CoV-2 like it has been used to monitor poliovirus for decades.
Lasse Dam Rasmussen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Creating a Culture of Preparedness

open access: yesDelaware Journal of Public Health, 2019
The culture of preparedness is about maintaining a constant state of readiness, which involves a series of planning steps to ensure individuals, families, and businesses are ready for all types of disasters that may impact the community. Some of those steps including developing plans, creating disaster kits, conducting drills and exercises ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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