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The effect of community resilience and disaster risk management cycle stages on morbi-mortality following floods: an empirical assessment [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Practice and policy have emphasized the need for building resilience to climate-related events in a further warming world. Scholarship has studied resilience largely in terms of process, latent capacity informing vulnerability, or the outcome of risk ...
R. Guimaraes, R. Mechler, S. Velev, D. Chapagain, D. Chapagain   +4 more
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Social tipping points and adaptation limits in the context of systemic risk: Concepts, models and governance

Frontiers in Climate, 2022
Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.
Sirkku Juhola, Tatiana Filatova, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Reinhard Mechler, Jürgen Scheffran, Pia-Johanna Schweizer   +5 more
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Artificial neural network for predicting nuclear power plant dynamic behaviors

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021
A Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is a complex dynamic system-of-systems with highly nonlinear behaviors. In order to control the plant operation under both normal and abnormal conditions, the different systems in NPPs (e.g., the reactor core components ...
M. El-Sefy, A. Yosri, W. El-Dakhakhni, S. Nagasaki, L. Wiebe   +4 more
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Dynamic Changes and Driving Factors of the Quality of the Ecological Environment in Sanjiangyuan National Park

Remote Sensing
National parks face ecological threats from climate change and human activities. Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP), a major ecological area in China, lacks a systematic evaluation of its ecological environmental quality changes and their driving factors ...
Liwei Liu, Cong Wang, Shaokun Li, Xiaohan Zhang, Mingzhu He   +4 more
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Network versus portfolio structure in financial systems [PDF]

, 2013
The question of how to stabilize financial systems has attracted considerable attention since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Recently, Beale et al.
Kobayashi, Teruyoshi
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Public perception of earthquake events: evidence from social media – a case study of the 2025 Dingri earthquake

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
Social media have become the core channel for postearthquake information dissemination and public emotional expression. Focusing on the 2025 Tibet Dingri 6.8-magnitude earthquake, Sina Weibo posts related to the event are obtained, and a ‘topic-sentiment-
Cong Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Liwei Liu, Jidong Wu   +3 more
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Multiple resilience dividends at the community level: A comparative study of disaster risk reduction interventions in different countries

Climate Risk Management, 2023
Climate-related disasters are increasing in many parts of the world, yet investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) remains insufficient to manage these risks.
Viktor Rözer, Swenja Surminski, Finn Laurien, Colin McQuistan, Reinhard Mechler   +4 more
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Multivariate Shortfall Risk Allocation and Systemic Risk

, 2017
The ongoing concern about systemic risk since the outburst of the global financial crisis has highlighted the need for risk measures at the level of sets of interconnected financial components, such as portfolios, institutions or members of clearing ...
Armenti, Yannick, Crepey, Stephane, Drapeau, Samuel, Papapantoleon, Antonis   +3 more
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Perspectives on Regulating Systemic Risk [PDF]

, 2014
This book chapter, which synthesizes several of the author’s articles, attempts to provide useful perspectives on regulating systemic risk. First, it argues that systemic shocks are inevitable.
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Unheard and Under‐Supported: Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia, Giulia Reggiani, Elizabeth J. Maran, Maria Elisa Delle Fave, Ilaria Baido, Anna Chiara Frigo, Maria Paola Boaro, Raffaella Colombatti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source