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The total cost of these 308 events exceeds $2.085 trillion in the US alone [1]. Globally, damage costs and disaster losses do not even show any improvement each year. This fact shows the current disaster approaches and strategies have failed. This paper aims to shed light on resilient city...
During times of public crises, governments must act swiftly to communicate crisis information effectively and efficiently to members of the public; failure to do so will inevitably lead citizens to become fearful, uncertain and anxious in the prevailing conditions. This pioneering study systematically in...
Each year, International Women’s Day encourages us to celebrate our female role models, confront the inequalities women face and focus on the change we want to see – and create – in the world. This year in particular, the theme is #ChooseToChallenge, which reminds us all that we canch...
sits on the Steering Committee on Work and Employment, argues that the traditional system of evaluating job candidates based on factors such as educational degrees, the brand of an educational institution or employer, or social connections is largely inefficient and perpetuates socioeconomic inequalities...
8.Plant Hardiness– Defining distinct boundaries in which plants are capable of growing as defined by climatic conditions. 9.Machine Performance– Logging geographic coordinates of agricultural machinery in a farm field to better understand the spatial variability cost of field operation and machinery per...
The combined effects of these mechanisms are nonetheless far from being egalitarian on a global scale, eventually sustaining regional inequalities in opportunities of geographical mobility based on the “birthright lottery” (Shachar, 2009). Declaration of competing interest We do declare that we have ...
In view of this unexpected result, it is striking that our findings, simply, corroborate the core result of gender studies of income inequalities (Baroudi and Igbaria, 1994; Booth et al., 2002; Gill, 2002; Bobbitt-Zeher, 2007): Also in the gig economy, women experience income discrimination...
to explore how local inequalities shape the labor market (seeMcCall 2001;McDonald et al. 2016). I situated my study in Texas for two reasons: one, it has an established and fast-growing tech scene in Austin and two, Texas has a large Hispanic workforce (Moretti 2013;Straubhaar et al. ...