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Potentially catastrophic policies
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Toward managing catastrophic AI risks
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Catastrophic Tsunamis In the Indonesian Archipelago
… hazards. Fourteen (14) segments of potential catastrophic tsunamigenic earthquake and 21 volcanogenic tsunami sources were identified based on seismotectonic assessment, historical record, paleotsunami deposits and micro-atoll studies, as well as volcanic type and activities. Most of the …
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Predicting Bankruptcy and Catastrophic Loss: A Portfolio Approach
… paper uses logistic regression to assign risk of catastrophic loss (defined as a loss of 80% or more of market cap value) to companies, and analyzes the subsequent returns of high risk and low risk portfolios. In the final model, the low risk portfolio had a three-year mean return of approximately …
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The catastrophic failure of pressurized graphite/epoxy cylinders
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982.
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Robust Electric Power Infrastructures. Response and Recovery during Catastrophic Failures
This dissertation is a systematic study of artificial neural networks (ANN) applications in power system restoration (PSR). PSR is based on available generation and load to be restored analysis. A literature review showed that the conventional PSR methods, i.e. the pre-established guidelines, the …
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Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
… is to explore the socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure in Argentina in order to be able to capture the distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among health coverage. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the Household Expenditure …
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The role of frictional heating in the development of catastrophic landslides
… layer. The considered time window is that of catastrophic acceleration, starting at incipient failure and ending a few seconds later, when the acquired displacement and velocity are such that the sliding material begins to break up into pieces. The model accounts for temperature rise in the …
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Riparian Forest Recovery Following a Catastrophic Flood on the Blanco River, Texas
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The Catastrophic Position of the Judenräte: Self-Serving Collaborators or Honorable Martyrs?
<p>During the Holocaust, the Nazis appointed a select group of Jewish leaders to carry out their demands and orders throughout the ghettos of Eastern Europe. These influential men made up the Judenrate. From the beginning of the ghettos until their tragic demise, these Jewish leaders were …
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Referencing Unlabelled World Data to Prevent Catastrophic Forgetting in Class-incremental Learning
… a novel strategy to address the challenge of "catastrophic forgetting" in deep continual-learning systems. The term refers to severe performance degradation for older tasks, as a system learns new tasks that are presented sequentially. Most previous techniques have emphasized preservation of …
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Catastrophic Progress: A Queer Materialist Analysis of the 2023 Trans/Bud Light Controversy
<p>On April 1, 2023, Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman and social media influencer, made a March Madness post on Instagram sponsored by Bud Light. The response from the conservative right was swift and extreme, galvanizing protests against Anheuser-Busch InBev and resulting in a massive loss in …
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Catastrophic Landscape Modification from Massive Landslide Tsunamis: An Example from Taan Fiord, Alaska
The October 17<sup>th</sup> 2015 Taan landslide and tsunami generated a high runup of 192 m, nearly an order of magnitude greater than most previously surveyed tsunamis. Extensive modifications observed and documented on several low gradient fan deltas within the fiord make Taan Fiord an excellent …
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Risk Assessment of Power System Catastrophic Failures and Hidden Failure Monitoring & Control System
… that evaluate, in a power system, the risks of catastrophic failures caused by hidden failures in the hardware or software components of the protection system. The disturbance propagation mechanism is revealed by the analysis of the 1977 New York Blackout. The step-by-step process of estimating …
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Catastrophic cooling in solar coronal loops : thermal instability as a road to complex evolution
… This instability results in a self-amplifying “catastrophic cooling” process and leads to the formation of dense, cool plasma condensations. The first part of the work focuses on plasma condensations in short cool loops, which presumably constitute the solar transition region, and describes how …
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Surgical catastrophic health expenditure at New Somerset Hospital, a South African public sector hospital
Background: Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and impoverishing health expenditure (IHE) are significant barriers to surgical care. Worldwide, 3.7 billion people risk financial catastrophe if they require surgery, mostly affecting the poorest populations in LMICs. Surgical CHE and IHE are not …
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Immediate post catastrophic injury management in rugby union. Does it have an effect on outcomes?
… Injuries range from having minor consequences to catastrophic injuries with major life changing consequences. In South Africa, previous research indicated that the risk of catastrophic injury was high and that the immediate management was sub-optimal, worsening the injury outcome. In response, the …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… anxieties of the age: authoritarian-populism and catastrophic-utopianism. Four case studies, encompassing four different genres of media, define and illustrate these ideological impulses: The Fundamentals, Superman comic books, Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz film. …
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Catastrophic crisis communication: a study of hospital crisis planning following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
… the United States were prepared to respond to catastrophic crisis situations and find out if hospitals have changed or improved crisis plans since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.</p> <p>To examine preparedness and improvement of crisis plans since September 11, 2001, the researcher …
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Analyzing risk and catastrophic accidents: using LOPA and human factors to improve safety in generic projects
… Protection Analysis (LOPA), to analyze two past catastrophic accidents. The financial industry and the Space Shuttle program will be considered to produce the required analysis. LOPA models will be created to expose shortcomings in the failed projects and provide lessons to be learned in order to …
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