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Anatoly Shavykin and Andrey Karnatov
Oil spills can have a serious negative effect on seabirds. Numerous studies have been carried out for relative vulnerability assessment of seabirds to oil, with the majority of such works based on ordinal quantities. This study aims to assess (from the a...
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Miao Yu, Jianwei Zhuge, Ming Cao, Zhiwei Shi and Lin Jiang
With the prosperity of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry environment, the variety and quantity of IoT devices have grown rapidly. IoT devices have been widely used in smart homes, smart wear, smart manufacturing, smart cars, smart medical care, and m...
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Clémence Guillard-Gonçalves and José Luís Zêzere
In this work residents’ social vulnerability and buildings’ physical vulnerability of the Loures municipality (Portugal) were combined to locate the areas where the vulnerability is the highest, and to analyse the landslide risk. The social v...
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Zhihui Tian, Ruoyi Zhang, Lili Wu, Yongji Wang, Jinjin Yang and Di Cao
Climate change, population growth, and socio-economic transformations present multifaceted challenges to the water resource systems in the four major river basins of Henan Province. Consequently, to gain a comprehensive understanding of water security wi...
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Giovanna Concu, Mariangela Deligia and Mauro Sassu
Several Italian cities are characterized by the presence of centuries-old historic walls, which have a cultural heritage value and, due to their structural role as a retaining wall, often influence the safety of adjacent buildings and infrastructure. Anc...
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Xingping Yang, Xiaoai Dai, Wenyu Li, Heng Lu, Chao Liu, Naiwen Li, Zhengli Yang, Yuxin He, Weile Li, Xiao Fu, Lei Ma, Yunfeng Shan and Youlin Wang
With the social and economic development in recent years, human activities have been more extensive and intensified. As a result, ecosystems are damaged to varying degrees, and regional ecological environments tend to be weaker. The socio-ecological syst...
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Eva Sventekova, Zdenka Urbancova and Katarina Holla
Increases in means of transport, developed transport networks, and modernization dependent on computer technology not only lead to huge security demands but also require preventive measures and vulnerability assessments of key elements of transport infra...
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Ezatollah Ghanavati, Majid Shah-Hosseini and Nick Marriner
The SE coast of Iran is of great economic and environmental importance. Global climate change affects this coastline through sea level rise (SLR), compounded by a decrease in sediment budgets in coastal areas. This study developed a Coastal Vulnerability...
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Catalina Quiñones-Bustos, Maria Teresa Bull and Claudio Oyarzo-Vera
This article proposes a vulnerability assessment model for evaluating buildings? expected seismic performance, as well as their vulnerability to tsunamis. The objective of this assessment is to provide appropriate information for decision makers regardin...
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Tingyang Gu, Minyan Lu, Luyi Li and Qiuying Li
Current research on software vulnerability analysis mostly focus on source codes or executable programs. But these methods can only be applied after software is completely developed when source codes are available. This may lead to high costs and tremend...
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Abdul Karim Gazi (Author)
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Purpose of the study: Cyclone is a common disaster in Bangladesh because of affecting the coastal area almost every year. The intention of this paper is to explore the vulnerability to cyclone and the possible way of mitigating vulnerability in the coast...
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Climate change and related hazards affect the livelihoods of people and their vulnerability to shocks and stresses. Though research on the linkages between a changing climate and vulnerability has been increasing, only a few studies have examined the cas...
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David E. Dismukes, Siddhartha Narra
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The U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is an excellent example of a working coast that supports a considerable degree of critical energy infrastructure across several sectors (crude oil, natural gas, electric power, petrochemicals) and functionalities (production...
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Jingsha He, Chengyue Chang, Peng He and Muhammad Salman Pathan
As the Internet becomes larger in scale, more complex in structure and more diversified in traffic, the number of crimes that utilize computer technologies is also increasing at a phenomenal rate. To react to the increasing number of computer crimes, the...
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Donatella Caniani, Donata Serafina Lioi, Ignazio M. Mancini and Salvatore Masi
Groundwater is an important source of water. Since the control and removal of pollution are expensive, it is essential to identify the possible sources of contamination and to correctly classify groundwater on the basis of its intrinsic and integrated vu...
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Esperanza Maldonado Rondón, Gustavo Chio Cho
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The aim of this paper is to develop a simple model to assess structural vulnerability of buildings at a regional scale. This model was especially made for areas where current reports on damages of buildings do not exist. The method is based on the identi...
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Esperanza Maldonado Rondón, Neyid Mauricio Jasbón Carvajal, Gustavo Chio Cho
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This document contains a methodology to assess the level of damage that buildings with reinforced concrete wall structural system may reach. The model estimates a vulnerability rate calculated in function of structure characteristics that most influent a...
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Shiqin Yang, Zisheng Yang and Renyi Yang
The three dimensions of ecological, economic, and social vulnerability in the mountainous countryside are caused by the fragility of the natural ecosystems of the mountains, which overlap with the geographical location of the countryside and are associat...
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Clebson Pautz, Alexandre Rosa dos Santos, Jéferson Luiz Ferrari, Plinio Antonio Guerra Filho, Sustanis Horn Kunz, Henrique Machado Dias, Taís Rizzo Moreira, Rita de Cássia Freire Carvalho, Vinícius Duarte Nader Mardeni, Elaine Cordeiro dos Santos and Larissa Marin Scaramussa
Environmental vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a region to damage when it is subjected to natural or anthropogenic actions. The assessment of environmental vulnerability in lakes is an important tool to assist managers in planning and interv...
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Zhibin Huang, Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu and Xinwei Yang
Although numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between environmental factors and chronic diseases, there is a lack of comprehensive population health vulnerability assessment studies from the perspective of environmental expos...
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