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The Construction and Validation of the Heat Vulnerability Index, a Review [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015
The occurrence of extreme heat and its adverse effects will be exacerbated with the trend of global warming. An increasing number of researchers have been working on aggregating multiple heat-related indicators to create composite indices for heat vulnerability assessments and have visualized the vulnerability through geographic information systems to ...
Chuanhua Yu, Chuanhua Yu, Junzhe Bao
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Maternal Vulnerability Index and Severe Maternal Morbidity.

JAMA Netw Open
ImportanceFew studies have investigated the association of composite measures of neighborhood social determinants of health with severe maternal morbidity (SMM), and no research has examined this association for indices tailored to maternal health.ObjectiveTo examine the association of scores in the Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI), a tool developed ...
Boghossian NS, Radack J, Passarella M, Phibbs CS, Greenberg LT, Buzas JS, Saade GR, Rogowski J, Lorch SA.   +8 more
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Mobility vulnerability index for community vulnerability assessment in disaster response

npj Natural Hazards
The Mobility Vulnerability Index (MVI) introduces a dynamic, adaptive framework for quantifying community vulnerability to disasters through the analysis of real-time mobility behavior. It is designed to be cross-culturally adaptive, handle data sparsity,
Jainil Anilkumar Patel, Mohammadreza Akbari Lor, Puneet Jeph, Renhe Jiang, Steven Luis, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen   +7 more
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Numerical investigation of the effects of geotechnical parameters on building risk level due to mechanized tunneling in urban areas [PDF]

Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, 2022
In this study, the effects of some geotechnical parameters on the surface settlement curves due to mechanized tunneling and the corresponding risk on surface buildings are investigated through numerical analysis.
Mohammad Ali Iranmanesh, Ali Arianfar
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A wildfire vulnerability index for buildings

Scientific Reports, 2022
AbstractRecent wildfire events (e.g. Mediterranean region, USA, and Australia) showed that this hazard poses a serious threat for wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas around the globe. Furthermore, recent events in regions where wildfire does not constitute a frequent hazard (e.g.
Papathoma-Köhle, M., Schlögl, M., Garlichs, C., Diakakis, M., Mavroulis, S., Fuchs, S.   +5 more
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Gender analysis of vulnerability of smallholder farming households to climate variability and change in North-central Nigeria

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2021
The frequency and intensity of climatic variables as indicators of climate change have been increasingly recognised as global crisis with significant impact on biodiversity, household food security and gender roles.
Daudu Abdulrazaq Kamal, Salami Oluwashola Shakirat, Kareem Oyedola Waheed   +2 more
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The shortfalls of vulnerability indexes for public health decision-making in the face of emergent crises: the case of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Virginia

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Equitable and effective vaccine uptake is a key issue in addressing COVID-19. To achieve this, we must comprehensively characterize the context-specific socio-behavioral and structural determinants of vaccine uptake.
Lydia Cleveland Sa, Erika Frydenlund
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Building a COVID-19 Vulnerability Index

Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Abstract COVID-19 is an acute respiratory disease that has been classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Characterization of this disease is still in its early stages; however, it is known to have high mortality rates, particularly among individuals with preexisting medical conditions.
DeCaprio, Dave, Gartner III, Joseph A, Burgess, Thadeus, Kothari, Sarthak, Sayed, Shaayaan, McCall, Carol J   +5 more
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Ecological vulnerability assessment based on remote sensing ecological index (RSEI): A case of Zhongxian County, Chongqing

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
The ecological vulnerability evaluation index was established through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Wetness (WET), Normalized Difference Build-up and Soil Index (NDBSI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) indicators, comprehensively ...
Guoxin Lan, Guoxin Lan, Xiaolan Jiang, Xiaolan Jiang, Denghui Xu, Denghui Xu, Xianhua Guo, Xianhua Guo, Yan Wu, Yixuan Liu, Yixuan Liu, Yuzheng Yang, Yuzheng Yang   +12 more
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A multilayer soil approach for seepage process analysis in earthen levees

Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2022
The analysis of seepage through earthen levees is fundamental to investigate the levee safety condition, since that the seepage phenomenon can often lead to piping causing the collapse of the levee (Saghaee et al., 2012).
Bianca Bonaccorsi, Tommaso Moramarco, Leonardo Valerio Noto, Silvia Barbetta   +3 more
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