Thus a system has been created that provides survival chances for the largest possible proportion of the victims of a major accident or catastrophe, although some open questions concerning the practical applications still need to be answered. 展开 关键词: emergency and disaster medicine medical ...
Similarly, in his Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau argued that our treatment of animals should be guided by sentience, not rationality. He even went on to say that animals have a certain intelligence; he called them ‘ingenious machines’.[74] For Rousseau, a central element in the education...
By so doing, children’s imagination is set free, and they become active participants in ecological issues, thus fulfilling one of the main reasons why “the theatre … [is] an appropriate medium for the children in their learning process [because of] the element of freedom that it provides ...
Petitions are a powerful tool for individuals and communities to raise their collective voice and bring about change. By defining the concept of a petition, understanding how it works, and exploring an example, we have shed light on the significance and impact this age-old mechanism has in our...
the case of huge losses caused by property damage or catastrophes. With the coinsurance clause in place, businesses who would like to save money and avoid further expenses by going for lesser insurance would be encouraged to insure the property at the value of its replacement cost or near it....
Given that the theoretical literature assigns a high value to protection against natural catastrophes, it is no surprise that in the 1990's, the limited capacity of the reinsurance market was one of the central causes leading to the invention of catastrophe bonds” ([9], p. 2). These ...
To combine data from different sources, we developed a five-step retrospective harmonization process, which consists of: The definition of the target schemes and formats of the variables to be harmonized, i.e., date, location, type of natural hazard, type of the affected element, extent of da...
Therefore, the importance of studying power system resilience has never been higher. This research [2] takes a multifaceted look at the topic of power system resilience. Given the increasing severity and frequency of natural catastrophes, researchers in the energy sector are examining strategies to ...
{R}}}^{D}\to {{\mathbb{R}}}^{D\times D}\)turns a vector of lengthDinto a diagonal matrix and\({\rm{softplus}}:{\mathbb{R}}\to {\mathbb{R}}\)is the Softplus function that acts element wise. This parametrization requires\({\mathcal{O}}\left({D}^{3}\right)\)time to ...
These mitigation strategies include both reactive and proactive measures that consider the specifications of the chemical supply element such as storage details, supplier location, storage complexity, and the number of available suppliers. In the remainder of this section, we shall provide a detailed ...