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Younsil Kim and Joongwon Bae
To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the national airspace in a safe manner, a risk-based approach to the regulation of UAVs is adopted in many countries. Thus, the capacity to permit UAVs in urban airspace also needs to be evaluated in a ri...
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Beibei Yan, Qianqian Wei, Xinfeng Li, Xiaoyu Song, Zongjun Gao, Jiutan Liu, Ruilin Zhang and Min Wang
This study analyzed the sources of total metal elements using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) model and conducted human health risk assessment for adults and children using the health risk assessment model recommended by the United States Environ...
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Juan Camilo Gómez Zapata, Raquel Zafrir, Massimiliano Pittore and Yvonne Merino
Efforts have been made in the past to enhance building exposure models on a regional scale with increasing spatial resolutions by integrating different data sources. This work follows a similar path and focuses on the downscaling of the existing SARA exp...
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Fangfang Geng, Youliang Ding, Honglei Wu and Kang Yang
The novel self-centering precast concrete (SCPC) frame with hysteretic dampers has favorable seismic behavior and achieves the desirable demands at the design basis earthquake (DBE) and the maximum considered earthquake (MCE) seismic levels under the nea...
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Xiaying Wang, Yumei Yang, Yuanping Xia, Shuaiqiang Chen and Yulin She
As one of the most developed coastal cities, Shanghai experiences long-term ground surface settlement disasters during urban expansion periods, which has adverse effects on economic development. To date, many studies regarding Shanghai?s ground surface s...
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Dario Rosidi
Pág. pp. 57 - 63
A seismic risk assessment procedure for earth embankments and levees is presented. The procedure consists of three major elements: (1) probability of ground motion at the site, (2) probability of levee failure given a level of ground motion has occurred ...
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Alexey Konovalov, Yuriy Gensiorovskiy, Valentina Lobkina, Alexandra Muzychenko, Yuliya Stepnova, Leonid Muzychenko, Andrey Stepnov and Mikhail Mikhalyov
Damages caused by earthquake-induced ground effects can be of the order or significantly exceed the expected damages from ground shaking. A new probabilistic technique is considered in this study for earthquake-induced landslide risk assessment. A fully ...
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Pattira Kasamesiri, Ruamruedee Panchan and Wipavee Thaimuangphol
Microplastic pollution has been identified as a potential threat to the aquatic environment and humans globally, with widespread occurrence in ecosystems, including reservoirs that constitute a key role in ecosystem services for humans. However, the eval...
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?eljana Nikolic, Elena Benvenuti and Luka Runjic
The seismic risk assessment of existing urban areas provides important information for the process of seismic risk reduction in different phases of planning and emergency management. Between different large-scale assessment approaches, a vulnerability in...
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Florin Pavel and Radu Vacareanu
This study is focused on the assessment of the seismic risk for elements of the electric network (thermoelectric powerplants and substations) in Romania. Firstly, the main elements of the electric network analyzed in this study are briefly presented. The...
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Ciro Ricco, Simona Petrosino, Ida Aquino, Carlo Del Gaudio and Mariarosaria Falanga
In the present paper, we analyse ground tilt and seismicity at Campi Flegrei caldera and Ischia Island, two volcanic areas located in the south of Italy. These areas have been well studied for many years from a petrological, volcanological and geophysica...
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Amira Oun, Arun Kumar, Timothy Harrigan, Andreas Angelakis and Irene Xagoraraki
Most of the waterborne disease outbreaks observed in North America are associated with rural drinking water systems. The majority of the reported waterborne outbreaks are related to microbial agents (parasites, bacteria and viruses). Rural areas are char...
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Matteo Del Soldato, Lorenzo Solari, Federico Raspini, Silvia Bianchini, Andrea Ciampalini, Roberto Montalti, Alessandro Ferretti, Vania Pellegrineschi and Nicola Casagli
Satellite interferometric data are widely exploited for ground motion monitoring thanks to their wide area coverage, cost efficiency and non-invasiveness. The launch of the Sentinel-1 constellation opened new horizons for interferometric applications, al...
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Kirsten DePrekel, El Hachemi Bouali and Thomas Oommen
Transportation infrastructure is critical for the advancement of society. Bridges are vital for an efficient transportation network. Bridges across the world undergo variable deformation/displacement due to the Earth?s dynamic processes. This displacemen...
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Kartika Indah Sari,Darlina Tanjung
Pág. 85 - 91
District Medan Belawan often subjected to tidal flooding. This is due to because the region is located on the coast of the beach and the surface of the ground is lower than the surface of the ocean. Some of the factors that cause the occurrence of tidal ...
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Kartika Indah Sari,Darlina Tanjung
Pág. 85 - 91
District Medan Belawan often subjected to tidal flooding. This is due to because the region is located on the coast of the beach and the surface of the ground is lower than the surface of the ocean. Some of the factors that cause the occurrence of tidal ...
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Naveen Kumar Meena and Sanjay Nimbalkar
The piled raft foundations are widely used in infrastructure built on soft soil to reduce the settlement and enhance the bearing capacity. However, these foundations pose a potential risk of failure, if dynamic traffic loading and ground conditions are n...
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Jadwiga Nidzgorska-Lencewicz, Agnieszka Makosza, Czeslaw Kozminski and Bozena Michalska
Fruits, garden plants, and agricultural crops grown in Poland exhibit wide variations in their sensitivity to frost, particularly in early spring. In the case of frost, generally, the yield and quality are reduced, and sometimes, entire plants can be des...
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Patricia Gamboa, Rui Varandas, João Rodrigues, Cátia Cepeda, Cláudia Quaresma and Hugo Gamboa
Occupational disorders considerably impact workers? quality of life and organizational productivity, and even affect mortality worldwide. Such health issues are related to mental health and ergonomics risk factors. In particular, mental health may be aff...
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Junyoung Ko, Kyeongtak Song, Hoon Kim, Sae Yong Lee and Jihong Park
Landing on a single-leg without receiving direct visual information (e.g., not looking at the ground) may increase the risk of injury. We examined whether visual focus contributed to the changing lower-extremity dynamics and patellofemoral joint stress d...
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