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From Exile to Homeland Return: Ethnographic Mapping to Inform Peacebuilding from Afar
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2020 When violent conflict flares up, forced migration often follows. Ethnographic data shows that forced migrants remain attached to their places of origin and often express a desire to return once conflict has abated, be it after weeks, months, or years ...
Nicolas Parent
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Climate ServicesPluvial flood mapping is a common way to identify locations at risk of being flooded in connection with an extreme short-duration rainfall. As rainfall extremes are expected to intensify in a warmer climate, more and more cities and municipalities are ...
Jonas Olsson +4 more
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Cyclic plasticity model for fatigue with softening behaviour below macroscopic yielding
Materials & Design, 2019 Experimental observations have evidenced the insufficiency of yield surface definition via monotonic loading to guarantee adequate description of material behaviour under fatigue tests.
S. Tsutsumi, R. Fincato
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Elastoplastic constitutive modeling for concrete: a theoretical and computational approach
Revista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais, 2020 This article presents a study of the plasticity model applicability to concrete in a theoretical framework that generalizes the formulation of constitutive models for physically nonlinear analysis of structures.
D. B. OLIVEIRA +2 more
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SSW library: an SIMD Smith-Waterman C/C++ library for use in genomic applications. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The Smith-Waterman algorithm, which produces the optimal pairwise alignment between two sequences, is frequently used as a key component of fast heuristic read mapping and variation detection tools for next-generation sequencing data. Though various fast
Mengyao Zhao +3 more
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Indonesian Journal of GeographyIndonesia has the largest mangrove forest in the world, around 3.3 million hectares or 19.5% of the entire mangrove’s world population. Mangroves have many ecological and economic benefits and are also threatened by several conditions, such as a decrease
Mulyanto M, Muhammad Kamal
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Flood volume allocation method for flood hazard mapping using river model with levee scheme [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentA realistic flood risk assessment is important for rivers where the flood protection infrastructures are dictated by varying return periods. For rivers in Japan, design return periods for flood protection infrastructures range up to 200 years.
M. H. Aslam +6 more
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Mapping Wildfire Ignition Probability Using Sentinel 2 and LiDAR (Jerte Valley, Cáceres, Spain)
Sensors, 2018 Wildfire is a major threat to the environment, and this threat is aggravated by different climatic and socioeconomic factors. The availability of detailed, reliable mapping and periodic and immediate updates makes wildfire prevention and extinction work ...
Yolanda Sánchez Sánchez +3 more
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A Simultaneous Control, Localization, and Mapping System for UAVs in GPS-Denied Environments
DronesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention due to their versatility in applications such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations.
Rodrigo Munguia +3 more
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Using intervention mapping to develop a work-related guidance tool for those affected by cancer
BMC Public Health, 2013 Background Working-aged individuals diagnosed and treated for cancer require support and assistance to make decisions regarding work. However, healthcare professionals do not consider the work-related needs of patients and employers do not understand the
Munir Fehmidah +3 more
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