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Walid Ahmad Safi, Yo Hibino, Koichi Kusunoki, Tomohisa Mukai, Yasushi Sanada, Izumi Nakamura and Satoru Fukai
The required base shear and drift limit for post-disaster management buildings have increased in the Japanese Building Code following major seismic events. One method to satisfy these requirements for reinforced concrete frame buildings is to cast exteri...
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Xishan Li, Yuhang Zou, Hao Xuan, Wei Yang, Guoxiang Liao, Chengyan Wang and Deqi Xiong
Currently, oil spill pollution is one of the major environmental concerns for sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) aquaculture. During oil spills, spraying chemical dispersants is generally considered an efficient oil spill response. However, the impact...
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Kevin Sebastián Ballesteros-Salazar, Diego German Caizaguano-Montero, Ana Gabriela Haro-Báez and Theofilos Toulkeridis
The current study is based on the analysis and adaptation of a Federal Emergency Management Agency guide, FEMA P-1000, from the USA to improve school safety against natural hazards by applying the guide to the infrastructure of Ecuadorian schools, focusi...
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S. Díaz, L. Pujades, L. Pinzón, Y. Vargas
Pág. Page 279 - 290
Recent researches have proven the importance of considering the seismic directionality effect. The performance of buildings subjected to earthquakes depends on its orientation respect to the seismic actions applied. This type of calculation is computed u...
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Jorge F. S. Ferreira, Devinder Sandhu, Xuan Liu and Jonathan J. Halvorson
Scarcity of good-quality irrigation water is a major impediment to meet food demand for a growing world population. Recycled waters may be available locally more affordably, but their higher salinity is a concern. Salinity effects on spinach mineral comp...
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Alexandre Pereira Santos, Juan Miguel Rodriguez-Lopez, Cleiton Chiarel and Jürgen Scheffran
How just are risk responses that worsen vulnerability in the long term? Should the urban poor be left with self-reliance when facing hazards in the Anthropocene? This research investigates urban development and vulnerability in the Anthropocene. While it...
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Florian Schmitz and Oliver Wilhelm
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Irina I. Volkova, Igor V. Volkov, Yana A. Morozova, Viktor A. Nikitkin, Evgenia K. Vishnyakova and Nina P. Mironycheva-Tokareva
Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem?s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and i...
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Bok-Gi Lee, Jin-Young Kim, Ju-Seong Jung and Kang-Seok Lee
This study proposed a novel V-bracing system equipped with a laterally layered friction damper (LLFD), which can supplement the shortcomings of conventional vibration control systems and is applicable to existing reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings. A ma...
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Zhihui Wan, Heng Liu, Feng Zhou and Guoliang Dai
Post-grouted piles, as a foundation form for large-span and large-scale structures on calcareous sand, are expected to provide a high bearing capacity, but research on the response of post-grouted piles subjected to axial load in calcareous sand is still...
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Mengmeng Gao and Shuang Li
In current structural design codes, elastic vibration modes are used for seismic design. However, when a structure is subjected to strong earthquakes and inelastic response or even when collapse damage is observed, the damage state is always unevenly dis...
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Tian-Ye Zhang, Dong-Rui Di, Xing-Liang Liao and Wei-Yu Shi
Forests, being the primary repository of terrestrial biodiversity, possess a significant capacity to regulate the phenomenon of climate change. It is additionally crucial to consider how natural disasters affect the state and development of forest biodiv...
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Yesheng Lu, Junning Cui, Jiubin Tan, Xingyuan Bian and Yamin Zhao
The Demand for circulating cooling water (CCW) with high temperature stability and a quick response to temperature control is essential for precision engineering, so a dynamic thermal filtering method is proposed in this paper. Some CCW is bypassed, bloc...
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Raz Godelnik
Pág. 176 - 203
Objective of the Study: This paper explores whether and to what degree incumbent firms innovate in response to competition from the sharing economy.Methodology/Approach: Data on incumbents? actions related to the sharing economy between 2011 and 2015 was...
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Tran Cong Dung,Ðao Duy Minh DOI: 10.26459/hueuni-jed.v128i5C.5119
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Abstract: This study aims to identify the adaptation capacity undertaken by households in response to natural disasters and climate changes (CC). A total of 100 households in two communes including Quang Phuoc and Quang Cong, Quang Dien district were int...
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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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Shaoyong Han, Zhun Zhu, Mina Mortazavi, Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny and Peyman Mehrabi
The aim of this paper is to study the performance of a composite floor system at different heat stages using artificial intelligence to derive a sustainable design and to select the most critical factors for a sustainable floor system at elevated tempera...
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Luca Folador, Alessio Cislaghi, Giorgio Vacchiano and Daniele Masseroni
Forest fire is a common concern in Mediterranean watersheds. Fire-induced canopy mortality may cause the degradation of chemical?physical properties in the soil and influence hydrological processes within and across watersheds. However, the prediction of...
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Carlotta Pia Contiguglia, Angelo Pelle, Bruno Briseghella and Camillo Nuti
Well-known methods for seismic performance assessment, such as incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), multi-stripes analysis (MSA) and the cloud method, involve nonlinear response time-history analyses to characterize the relationship between the chosen dam...
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Kejin Wang, Nina S. N. Lam, Lei Zou and Volodymyr Mihunov
Disaster resilience is the capacity of a community to ?bounce back? from disastrous events. Most studies rely on traditional data such as census data to study community resilience. With increasing use of social media, new data sources such as Twitter cou...
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