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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Slow-onset"”.
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Supporting the operational performance management of public service systems during slow-onset disasters
… performance goals of public organizations during slow-onset disasters. The first study focuses on the volatility in the service needs of citizens from a public system during a long-term disaster. The study proposes a time series approach for predicting demand volatility patterns to manage service …
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Natural Hazards Monitoring Using Multiple Remote Sensing Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms
… to the speed and extent of a hazard: rapid onset hazards and slow onset hazards. Both could pose considerable risks to society development, community security, and ecosystems, especially in urban areas with dense populations. Satellite-based remote sensing techniques provide essential …
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Exploring the contributions of cross-sector collaborations to Disaster Risk Reduction in the city of Harare: an investigation through a drought response lens
… most often been studied in the context of rapid onset disasters such as floods, with less focus on slow-onset disasters such as multiple year droughts. There is also limited research on the contributions of cross-sector collaborations towards Disaster Risk Reduction in African cities. For this …
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Social Resilience in Cornish Fishing Communities
… to withstand ‘shock’ over both ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ onset events in social, political, economic and natural domain terms (Wilson, 2012a). Endogenous and exogenous influences may include natural changes in resources and resource dependency resulting in the loss or depletion of community …
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Land Loss: Attachment, Place and Identity in Coastal Louisiana
… Communities have watched this mostly slow onset disaster for over fifty years, yet the issue only began receiving significant attention in the last few years of the twentieth century. A third factor contributing to the sense of loss residents experience is their alienation from the …
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Revisiting barriers to climate change adaptation in coastal municipalities in Massachusetts
… events is more challenging to manage than slow-onset changes such as sea level rise or temperature changes. The findings lead one to believe that adaptation planning is not in fact a bureaucratic issue to be overcome with information, charts, and resources, but a much more fundamentally …
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Soft [beta]-adrenoceptor agonists for topical use in psoriasis
… For the pro~soft-drug, responses were of slow onset, in both preparations, with a slowly developing relaxatlon of the tracheal preparatlon at high concentrations (10-5 M). This is consistent with in vitro results where the dipivaloyl groups are hydrolysed more readily than the ethyl ester …
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Policy options for climate change loss and damage: A case study from Fijian agriculture
… consequences of climate change due to sudden and slow-onset events despite the implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures. Given this context, this thesis aims to identify institutional and policy gaps in the understanding of L&D and critically evaluate opportunities for policy, …
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Drought in Southern Africa: structure, characteristics and impacts
Drought is a complex, slow onset phenomenon which is a recurring and inevitable feature of the regional climate of southern Africa. This thesis focuses on the structure and characteristics of meteorological droughts in southern Africa and their impacts on surface soil moisture, agricultural yields …
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Formation of Copper-Salivary Component Complexes and Its Effect on Sensory Perception
… of astringency that is characterized with slow onset and longer duration time. Increase in pH of water from 5.5 to 7.5 inhibited metallic taste of copper, but did not reduce bitterness and astringency. The level of soluble copper at pH 7.5 decreased by 50 % compared to that at pH 5.5. …
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The influence of environmental temperature on the thermal tolerance of Antarctic notothenioid fishes
… avoidance in some SPZ waters also allows for the slow onset of adult antifreeze activity in at least one species of icefish, C. aceratus. Similarly, while the Antarctic notothenioids largely share low heat tolerances when acclimatized to their natural freezing water temperatures, these show …