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Early warning systems for malaria in Africa: from blueprint to practice.
, 2007 Although the development of early warning systems for malaria has been advocated by international agencies and academic researchers for many years, practical progress in this area has been relatively modest. In two recent articles, Thomson et al. provide
Abeku, Tarekegn A, Cox, Jonathan
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The effectiveness and need for flash flood warning systems in a regional inland city in Australia
, 2016 The paper explores, from a householder’s point of view, the effectiveness and need for an improved flood warning system in an inland regional city, Toowoomba, which experienced a severe flash flood in January 2011.
Mushtaq, Shahbaz, Nieland, Carlette
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Towards a new early warning system of financial crises [PDF]
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
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Assessing Early Warning Systems: How Have They Worked in Practice? [PDF]
Since 1999, IMF staff have been tracking several early warning system (EWS) models of currency crisis. The results have been mixed. One of the long-horizon models has performed well relative to pure guesswork and to available non-model-based forecasts ...
Andrew Berg +2 more
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CONCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PACIFIC, ATLANTIC AND ARCTIC TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMS FOR CANADA [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2005 Canada has coastlines on three of the four oceans on the globe, namely, the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans are connected to the Arctic Ocean in the north, but still they are three distinct oceans, and need three ...
T.S. Murty +3 more
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Third Revolution Digital Technology in Disaster Early Warning
, 2015 Networking societies with electronic based technologies can change social morphology, where key social structures and activities are organized around electronically processed information networks.
De Silva, Kushani +5 more
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Flame Detection for Video-Based Early Fire Warning for the Protection of Cultural Heritage [PDF]
, 2012 Cultural heritage and archaeological sites are exposed to the risk of fire and early warning is the only way to avoid losses and damages. The use of terrestrial systems, typically based on video cameras, is currently the most promising solution for ...
Tsalakanidou, Filareti +20 more
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Seismic Early Warning Systems: Procedure for automated decision making
, 2006 Le grandi perdite economiche e sociali causate dal verificarsi di eventi sismici hanno incentivato, negli ultimi decenni, gli studi sul rischio sismico con l’obiettivo di formulare delle strategie per la mitigazione delle conseguenze di tali eventi.
Grasso, Veronica Francesca
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Environment InternationalAn analytical framework was developed, allowing for suspect screening and retrospective quantification of hazardous household-derived chemicals (HDCs) in community wastewater and river water to assess public exposure and environmental health status.
Eva Hawkins +3 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2019 Background Emergency and disaster are on the rise in the world. One of the most important components of disaster risk management is the early warning system. Studies have shown divergent models of warning systems with different structures. However, since
Hamid Reza Khankeh +4 more
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