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Social Vulnerability and Racial Inequality in COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago
Health Education & Behavior, 2020 Although the current COVID-19 crisis is felt globally, at the local level, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected poor, highly segregated African American communities in Chicago. To understand the emerging pattern of racial inequality in the effects of
Sage J. Kim, Wendy B. Bostwick
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Indonesia Marine Debris: Banda Aceh Coastal Environment Identification
Jurnal Kelautan Tropis, 2020 Banda Aceh City, having an area of 61.36 km² with a coastline of 11 km which covers Ulee Lheu Beach to Alue Naga Beach. The research was carried out to determine marine debris statistics (type, amount and mass) which divided into 7 categories; plastic ...
Koko Ondara, Ruzana Dhiauddin
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ContractFuzzer: Fuzzing Smart Contracts for Vulnerability Detection [PDF]
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2018 Decentralized cryptocurrencies feature the use of blockchain to transfer values among peers on networks without central agency. Smart contracts are programs running on top of the blockchain consensus protocol to enable people make agreements while ...
Bo Jiang, Ye Liu, W. Chan
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Research on Natural Gas Leakage and Explosion Mechanisms in a Container House
BuildingsAs unconventional building structures, container houses are now widely used in urban tourism to create characteristic buildings. Nowadays, natural gas accidents occur frequently in cities and towns; however, the development of laws and influencing ...
Yonghong Gao +6 more
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Jàmbá, 2019 The rising prevalence of the failure of fast-growing cities’ waste authorities to account for solid waste service function and provide effective solid waste systems poses serious environmental hazards and health risks. Household solid waste mismanagement
Vuyayo Tsheleza +4 more
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Indicators for monitoring and evaluating climate change adaptation efforts in South Africa
Jàmbá, 2023 Tracking and reporting on whether countries are implementing climate change adaptation initiatives are increasingly becoming more important, and indicators and metrics for monitoring climate change adaptation have equally become crucial.
Esonasipho Seyisi +2 more
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Forum Geografi, 2017 The Kampar River estuary is well known for a tidal-bore phenomenon called ‘Bono waves’. The emergence of Bono waves has a significant influence on the estuary system of Kampar River. Scoured materials, resulting from the hydraulic jump of the tidal bore,
Aprizon Putra +2 more
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Vulnerability and Entitlements
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2022 AbstractThe article examines the merits of both human rights and citizenship as systems to protect vulnerable individuals. The idea of vulnerability is presented as a more reliable concept than the dignity of the individual in comparative research. The body is basic to vulnerability.
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Vulnerable bodies, vulnerable systems [PDF]
International Journal of Law in Context, 2015 AbstractIn this paper we examine the concept of vulnerability as it relates to the materiality of systems, the exclusion of human physical corporeality, and social exclusion in Luhmann's theory of social autopoiesis. We ask whether a concept of vulnerability can be included in autopoiesis in order to better conceptualise social exclusion and the ...
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos +1 more
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