of such a large-scale problem, a semi-3D hydro-thermal numerical approach is presented to capture the combined influence of underground built environment characteristics coupled with ground properties on ground temperature elevation within the Royals Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), London. Num...
It measured 6.2 on the Richer scale. Fifty people died in the earthquake, and thousands more were injured or made homeless. Over 100,000 houses were destroyed or damaged. January is usually the coldest month of the year in Hebei. Temperatures often fall to minus 30C and cold winds blow ...
Chapter 1 Defining Natural Hazards – Large Scale Hazards The natural forces at work on planet Earth have been an integral part of life since the dawn of mankind. The impacts of hazards of natural origin can range from affecting infrastructure, personal possessions, and ecosystems to negatively ...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) impact plant growth and are a major driver of plant diversity and productivity. We quantified the contribution of intra-specific genetic variability in cassava (Manihot esculenta) and Rhizophagus irregularis to gene rep
(2020) argue that, “proposed models for coexistence between large-scale mining and ASM must integrate the historical and cultural context with the technical framework of geological, engineering, and legal characteristics” (pg. 15), and that, “even when both the ASM and large-scale mining ...
Time invariance; since the time scale of earthquake recurrence on the same fault segment is 100-1000 years and the evolution of the driving mechanism is a geological process 3–4 order of magnitudes slower, earthquakes can be taken as repetitions on existing weakness zones — the faults.2...
Large scale metric learning from equivalence constraints. In: Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, 2012. 2288--2295. Google Scholar [42] Tao D P, Jin L W, Wang Y F. Person re-identification by regularized smoothing kiss metric ...
The scale of this fantasy just kept growing as more and more groups realised the power it gave them -- above all, the group that had been instrumental in first spreading the idea: the neoconservatives. Because they now found that they could use it to help them realise their vision: that...
Up to 70.9% of China’s crude oil depends on imports; therefore, building up large-scale oil reserves is essential to ensuring national energy security [1]. Because underground oil storage has advantages such as low cost, high safety and minimal footprint, it has grown to be an important ...
There has been considerable research on geological disposal of intermediate-level and high-level radioactive waste in conventional mined geologic repositories [2], including large-scale demonstration tests in numerous underground research laboratories (URLs) [3,4]. The main technology for long-term ...