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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Extreme Natural Events"”.
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Infrastructure Performance and Risk Assessment under Extreme Weather and Climate Change Conditions
… explores the impact of climate change and extreme weather events on critical infrastructures as defined by US Department of Homeland Security. The focus is on two important critical infrastructure systems – Water and Transportation. Critical infrastructures are always under the risk of …
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Influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH)
The combination of natural disasters and inadequate infrastructure introduces unique challenges in providing safe drinking water in low-income countries. For example, Nepal faces several challenges in managing sporadic diarrheal outbreaks across the country, given its susceptibility to extreme …
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"Golden forests" of the sea: assessing values and perceptions of kelp in the Western Cape region of South Africa
… kelp's ability to increase one's safety from extreme natural events, or its importance as a source of food and feed for domestic animals — are attributed to individuals' held values as well as their socio-demographic characteristics and situational contexts. While actors did not display …
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Tornado Scars: The Long-term Imprints of Disaster on the Texas Urban Landscape
… the nature and depth of "scarring" that extreme natural events have on the human landscape. Field work across 19 locations affected by 15 strong and violent tornadoes during the last half of the 20th century included study sites at Knox City, San Angelo, Waco, Dallas, Silverton, Wichita …
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Imprecise probability and decision in civil engineering : Dempster-Shafer theory and application
… are often dominated by random, but infrequent, extreme natural events. For these rare events the sample record is usually short and the relevant subjective knowledge based on human experience is also likely to be very limited. The imprecise probability concept therefore has potential relevance …
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Development of Electromagnetic Friction Dampers for Improving Seismic Performance of Civil Structures
… limiting damage to civil structures subjected to extreme natural events such as earthquakes. Friction is one of the most reliable mechanisms of energy dissipation that has been utilized extensively in friction dampers to improve seismic performance of civil structures. Friction dampers are …
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Potamanautes warreni biomarker assays to monitor silver nanomaterial contaminants in aquatic environments
… that the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme natural events (such as temperature elevations) will increase in the future (IPCC, 2001; IPCC, 2007). Global warming and climate change could increase atmospheric temperatures by 2.4 – 6.4 °C (IPCC, 2001; IPCC, 2007). The main feature …