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Spatio-temporal decision support system for natural crisis management with tweetComP1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper discusses the design of a social media analysis system for decision making in natural disasters where tweets are analyzed to achieve situational awareness in earthquake and tsunami events.
Necmioglu, Ocal   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a new early warning system of financial crises [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops a new Early Warning System (EWS) model for predicting financial crises, based on a multinomial logit model. It is shown that EWS approaches based on binomial discrete-dependent-variable models can be subject to what we call a post ...
Bussière, Matthieu, Fratzscher, Marcel
core   +3 more sources

Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2019
Drought-related disasters are among the natural disasters that are able to cause large economic and social losses. In recent years, droughts have affected different regions of Brazil, impacting water, food, and energy security. In this study, we used the
Ana Paula M. A. Cunha   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving the Forecasts of Surface Latent Heat Fluxes and Surface Air Temperature in the GRAPES Global Forecast System

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
The GRAPES (Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System) global medium-range forecast system (GRAPES_GFS) is a new generation numerical weather forecast model developed by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).
Miaoling Liang, Xing Yuan, Wenyan Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Activity-based detection of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists in plant materials

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal
Background Since late 2019, fortification of ‘regular’ cannabis plant material with synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) has become a notable phenomenon on the drug market.
Axelle Timmerman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

China agricultural outlook for 2015–2024 based on China Agricultural Monitoring and Early-warning System (CAMES)

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Agriculture, 2015
The primary goal of Chinese agricultural development is to guarantee national food security and supply of major agricultural products. Hence, the scientific work on agricultural monitoring and early warning as well as agricultural outlook must be ...
Shi-wei XU, Gan-qiong LI, Zhe-min LI
doaj   +1 more source

Extreme Rainfall and Hydro-Geo-Meteorological Disaster Risk in 1.5, 2.0, and 4.0°C Global Warming Scenarios: An Analysis for Brazil

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2021
With the inclusion of demographic characteristics of the population living in vulnerable areas, a combination of empirical and climate models was used to project changes to climate and in hydro-geo-meteorological disasters in Brazil.
Jose A. Marengo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Warning Systems and Instrumentation

open access: yes
In the last two decades, sensors and techniques for debris-flow monitoring and their application for warning purposes have progressed significantly and many operational warning systems are working worldwide. Such advances motivate presenting an updated overview of the state of the art of early warning systems tailored towards debris-flow risk reduction.
Marchi L., Coviello V., Hürlimann M.
openaire   +4 more sources

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