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Giuseppe Santarsiero, Angelo Masi, Valentina Picciano and Andrea Digrisolo
Bridges are essential for guaranteeing the functioning of transportation systems since their failure can cause serious threats to the safety, well-being and economy of modern communities, especially in emergency conditions. Following recent bridge failur...
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Bart Vonk, Wouter Jan Klerk, Peter Fröhle, Berry Gersonius, Frank den Heijer, Philipp Jordan, Ulf Radu Ciocan, Jeroen Rijke, Paul Sayers and Richard Ashley
Uncertainties about climate change consequences, changing societal requirements and system complexity require flood protection asset managers to continuously evaluate their asset management policies and practice to manage risk and improve the resilience ...
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Sheika Henry, Anne-Marie Laroche, Achraf Hentati and Jasmin Boisvert
Over the years, floods have caused economic damage that has impacted development in many regions. As a result, a comprehensive overview of flood-prone areas at the provincial scale is important in order to identify zones that require detailed assessment ...
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Kalyan R. Piratla, He Jin and Sepideh Yazdekhasti
Transportation agencies are currently challenged to keep up with culvert infrastructure that is rapidly deteriorating due to lack of adequate maintenance and capital improvement. It is imperative for the transportation agencies to identify and rehabilita...
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Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Paul G. Langowski, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day, Jessica R. Haas and Elise M. Bowne
Wildfires can cause significant negative impacts to water quality with resultant consequences for the environment and human health and safety, as well as incurring substantial rehabilitation and water treatment costs. In this paper we will illustrate how...
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Dongping Gui, Haiyan Wang and Meng Yu
With the COVID-19 outbreak hitting the world, the frequency and severity of port congestion caused by various factors are increasing, challenging the stability of international supply chains. Thus, it is necessary to conduct an in-depth study on congesti...
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Maryam Dhahri, Manel Elmsalmi, Awad M. Aljuaid and Wafik Hachicha
Port risk management (PRM) during port operations is a current problem that can negatively affect the environment, people, and economic issues. In the literature, there is an enormous amount of research related to supply chain risk management (SCRM) in v...
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Gaetano Pecoraro, Gianfranco Nicodemo, Rosa Menichini, Davide Luongo, Dario Peduto and Michele Calvello
This paper presents a procedure for assessing?at the municipal scale?the level of risk (or attention required) of stretches of roads exposed to the activity of existing or potential slow-moving landslides. This procedure can be applied to support studies...
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Armin Rashidi Nasab, Hassan Malekitabar, Hazem Elzarka, Ala Nekouvaght Tak and Khashayar Ghorab
Addressing safety risks in construction is an ongoing priority, and integrating safety considerations into construction scheduling is a crucial aspect of this effort. A notable challenge is the safety risk posed by concurrent tasks, which has received li...
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Carla Iadanza, Alessandro Trigila, Paolo Starace, Alessio Dragoni, Tommaso Biondo and Marco Roccisano
The new national IdroGEO web platform allows the navigation, social sharing and download of data, maps, reports of the Italian Landslide Inventory, national hazard maps, and risk indicators. It is a tool for communication and dissemination of information...
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M. L. Gutiérrez-Carrillo, I. Bestué Cardiel, E. Molero Melgarejo and M. Marcos Cobaleda
This study presents a methodology generated for the preventive conservation of defensive earthen architecture, applied to the case of the Lojuela Castle (Lecrin Valley, Granada, Spain). In the application of the designed protocol, a multidisciplinary ana...
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Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki, Steven A. Freeman and Gretchen A. Mosher
The grain handling industry plays a significant role in U.S. agriculture by storing, distributing, and processing a variety of agricultural commodities. Commercial grain elevators are hazardous agro-manufacturing work environments where workers are prone...
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Mary E. Schoen, Michael A. Jahne and Jay L. Garland
We used quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) to estimate the microbial risks from two contamination pathways in onsite non-potable water systems (ONWS): contamination of potable water by (treated) reclaimed, non-potable water and contamination o...
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Alemu O. Aga, Bayou Chane and Assefa M. Melesse
To prolong the useful life of lakes and reservoirs, prioritizing watersheds by severity and risk of soil erosion is an essential index to develop sound sediment management plans. This study aims to predict soil erosion risk and sediment yield using Soil ...
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Assela Pathirana, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan, Maaike Bevaart, Eric Voost, Salameh Mahasneh and Hiba Abu Al Rob
Traditional infrastructure asset management is about maintaining the status quo of service levels in a resource-restricted, sometimes risk-increasing environment. Infrastructure asset management (IAM) is effective in addressing resource-deprived situatio...
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Akwasi F. Mensah and Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio
This paper proposes a closed-form method to evaluate wind turbine system reliability and associated failure consequences. Monte Carlo simulation, a widely used approach for system reliability assessment, usually requires large numbers of computational ex...
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Aneta Wysokinska-Senkus, Justyna Górna, Magdalena Kazmierczak, Pawel Mielcarek and Piotr Senkus
Context: Food safety is essential for every human. It determines public health, nutrition, elimination of hunger, and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. It is crucial for sustainable production, consumption, and international food trade. Ensuring ...
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Balqis Albreiki, Tetiana Habuza, Zaid Shuqfa, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Nazar Zaki and Saad Harous
Detecting at-risk students provides advanced benefits for improving student retention rates, effective enrollment management, alumni engagement, targeted marketing improvement, and institutional effectiveness advancement. One of the success factors of ed...
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An?e Mihelic, Toma? Hovelja and Simon Vrhovec
Different activities, artifacts, and roles can be found in the literature on the agile engineering of secure software (AESS). The purpose of this paper is to consolidate them and thus identify key activities, artifacts, and roles that can be employed in ...
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Stefanos Stefanidis, Vasileios Alexandridis and Theodora Theodoridou
Worldwide, floods are the most common and widespread type of disaster during the 21st century. These phenomena have caused human fatalities, destruction of infrastructures and properties, and other significant impacts associated with human socioeconomic ...
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