Machine learning for predicting earthquake magnitudes in the Central Himalaya by Ram Krishna Tiwari, Rudra Prasad Poudel, Harihar Paudyal

“… Human intervention cannot halt natural disasters like earthquakes, but machine learning application expertise can be utilized to detect patterns in data and increase understanding and predictive power. …”
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Round-Trip Emergency Supply Distribution Model Based on Nonfixed Routes by Yanli Tang, Ying Xiong, Ying Chen

“…In the face of increasing natural or man-made disasters, rapid and effective emergency dispatch and organization are of great significance to ensure the life safety of people and reduce social losses. …”
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Design and Prototype of an Automatic Dam Monitoring and Control System. by Kiconco, Dalison

“…Timely warnings to every person living in the locality and timely opening of shutters can thereby reduce the risks of loss of life and prevent disasters. Hence, automation of dam systems using Arduino, ultrasonic sensors, GSM modules, and motors, creates a new eye for both the Government as well as the people in the locality for creating mitigation plans.…”
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Quasi-weekly oscillation of regional PM_2.5 transport over China driven by the synoptic-scale disturbance of the East Asian winter monsoon circulation by Y. Bai, T. Zhao, K. Meng, Y. Zhou, J. Xiong, X. Sun, L. Shen, Y. Yue, Y. Zhu, W. Hu, J. Yao

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Accelerating Public-Private Partnerships for Overcoming Community Vulnerabilities in Coastal Peatlands Riau by Zulkarnaini Zulkarnaini, Ikhsan Masrul, Rinto Rinto

“…The study findings show that PPPs can accelerate peatland rehabilitation, improve socio-economic welfare, and reduce the impact of natural disasters. However, challenges related to the imbalance of actor roles, inter-agency coordination, and limited local technological capacity remain major obstacles. …”
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Predicting Tunnel Squeezing Using Multiclass Support Vector Machines by Yang Sun, Xianda Feng, Lingqiang Yang

“…Tunnel squeezing is one of the major geological disasters that often occur during the construction of tunnels in weak rock masses subjected to high in situ stresses. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Acts of unimaginable terror, catastrophic natural disasters and a global sense of humankind’s time running out might make us particularly receptive to the apocalyptic tone and message of Dombey and Son. …”
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A Time-Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for the Solution of Impact Problem of Gas-Saturated Coal by Jingfei Zhang, Deyong Guo, Wenhua Wu, Pan Guo

“…The results can provide a technological basis for the research of the prevention of coal and gas dynamic disasters under deep mining. And the method could be useful for the further numerical research of coal-rock-gas coupling problems and coal-gas-heat coupling problems subjected to impact loading.…”
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LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by Uzoma Amos Dike

“…The paper discovered that communal reading of lament psalms in the face of national disaster provided sharing platforms where the distressed expressed pain by composing their distresses. …”
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Richards equation for the assessment of landslide hazards by Ramesh Chandra Timsina

“…These models are crucial for addressing soil-related challenges and analyzing water-related risks, particularly in the context of water resource management, soil water-induced disasters, and the agricultural impacts of global environmental changes. …”
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Optimization and Practice for Partition Pressure Relief of Deep Mining Roadway Using Empty-Hole and Deep-Hole Blasting to Weaken Coal by Baobao Chen, Changyou Liu, Fengfeng Wu

“…Rockbursts are among the most harmful dynamic disasters, threatening the personnel safety and mine operation. …”
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Evaluation the efficiency of using Artificial Neural Networks in predicting meteorological droughts in north-west of Iran by Arash malekian, mahro dehbozorgi, Amir hoshang ehsani

“…Drought is one of the most destructive natural disasters in human societies that cause irreparable impacts on agriculture, environment, society and economics. …”
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Par-delà les temps qui courent : comment la pandémie de covid-19 nous invite à refonder notre rapport au temps by Coline Ruwet

“…However, these proposals do not account for other fundamental temporal upheavals of ecological disasters such as the irreversibility and invisibility of the processes as well as the brutal shocks generated by tipping points. …”
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The interrelationship between food security, climate change, and gender-based violence: A scoping review with system dynamics modeling. by Pooja Agrawal, Lori Ann Post, Janis Glover, Denise Hersey, Piya Oberoi, Brian Biroscak

“…An additional analytic layer of system dynamics modeling allowed for the integration of findings from the scoping review and discovery of additional insights into the interplay between disasters, food insecurity, and GBV. Findings from this review suggest that the development and adaptation of evidence-based, focused interventions and policies to reduce the effects of climate shocks and bolster food security may ultimately decrease GBV prevalence and impact.…”
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A Bursting Liability Evaluation Method Based on Energy Transfer by Yukun Hou, Shankun Zhao, Yang Zhao

“…As coal mining gradually moves to deep earth, rock bursts have emerged as one of the main disasters threatening the safety of coal production. …”
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Impacts of Microphysics Schemes and Topography on the Prediction of the Heavy Rainfall in Western Myanmar Associated with Tropical Cyclone ROANU (2016) by Khin Win Maw, Jinzhong Min

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The ‘Agency of Mapping’ in South Asia: Galle-Matara (Sri Lanka), Mumbai (India) and Khulna (Bangladesh) by Kelly Shannon

“…At the same time, ‘natural’ disasters are increasing in severity and frequency – due to climate change and the flagrant disregard of the environment in the relentless dive to impose imported terms of reference for modernisation and urbanisation. …”
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Study on Early Warning of Karst Collapse Based on the BP Neural Network by Dongqin Chen

“…In order to comprehensively grasp the dynamics of karst collapse, promote the comprehensive prevention and control level of karst collapse, and prevent secondary disasters caused by lava collapse, this study presents a method of karst collapse early warning based on the BP neural network. …”
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The application of PSO in structural damage detection: an analysis of the previously released publications (2005�2020) by Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…That is because the early detection of the damages and measures to be taken to repair and replace the damaged members with healthy ones could lead to economic advantages and would prevent human disasters. The optimization-based methods are one of the most popular techniques for damage detection. …”
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Effect of Wrapping on Post-Tensioned Beams Strengthened with Natural Sisal and Jute FRP Using Finite Element Analysis by D. P. Archana, H. N. Jagannatha Reddy, R. Prabhakar, M. U. Aswath, Basavaraju Paruti

“…Existing buildings are retrofitted to formulate them to be more resistant to seismic activity, earth motion, and other natural disasters. Many available reinforced concrete buildings across the globe are in desperate need of rehabilitation, repair, or replacement owing to degradation caused by a variety of reasons such as corrosion, lack of detailing, and failure of beam-column bonding, among others. …”
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