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Heat-related mortality remains a public health challenge in the United States. The objective of this study was to determine the temporal consistency of high-risk zones for heat-related mortality using historical georeferenced mortality data from seven US cities. A generalized additive model was...
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Catastrophic flooding associated with sea-level rise and change of hurricane patterns has put the northeastern coastal regions of the United States at a greater risk. In this paper, we predict coastal flooding at the east bank of Delaware Bay and analyze the resulting impact on residents and...
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Rockfall susceptibility has been analysed in mountain cliffs of the Cantabrian Range, North Spain. The main aim of this analysis has been to build a predictive model of rockfall activity from a low number of environmental and geological variables. The rockfall activity has been quantified in a...
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The accurate prediction of debris flows occurrence that will allow the reduction or prevention of economic losses and … attention. Most prediction methods are based on rainfall as the basic parameter, with the moment of occurrence as only result …, and without a prediction of debris flow travel time and size. This paper takes Jiangjia Gully in Dongchuan of Yunnan …
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prediction of rock burst classification with case instances using cloud models and attribution weight. First, cloud models are … and applicable for prediction of rock burst classification. Finally, different models with varying indicators are …
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methods cannot be adequately tested and evaluated either because of (a) lack of a precise definition of “prediction” and/or (b … designed in 1984 for prediction of great, Magnitude 8, earthquakes, hence its name. By 1986, the algorithm was rescaled for …-term middle-range earthquake prediction technique has been designed. Since 1991, each half-year, the algorithm M8 alone and in …
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A regularized joint inverse procedure is presented and used to estimate the magnitude of extreme rainfall events in ungauged coastal river basins of El Salvador: Paz, Jiboa, Grande de San Miguel, and Goascoran. Since streamflow measurements reflect temporal and spatial rainfall information,...
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Being able to predict cumulative plastic deformation of soil under cyclic loading has been quite a popular subject for researchers both in the past and at present. In this paper, a non-equal interval non-homogeneous exponential grey model NNGM (1, 1) for cumulative plastic deformation has been...
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Building a model to rapidly simulate the impact of typhoons on agriculture and to predict agricultural losses is crucial and great help for remedial measure and distributing subvention right after the disaster. The relationship between typhoon-related meteorological factors and agricultural...
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In pipeline management the accurate prediction of weak displacements is a crucial factor in drawing up a prevention … work addresses the specific problem related to the prediction of displacements induced by rainfall in unstable areas, of …
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