Some people say that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones for communication has had a negative effect on young people's reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or ...
Here, we propose an all-in-one earthquake monitoring system called seismic Phase picking, Location, and Association Network (PLAN) that achieves for the first time the simultaneous implementation of the three tasks with multi-station data and inter-task constraints. PLAN consists of four interdepende...
Earthquake can cause heavy casualties and property losses immediately, and induced a mass of secondary mountainous disasters such as collapse, landslide and debris flow. Collapse and landslide provide abundant incompact solid matter for movement of debris flow directly, which makes the debris flow ...
Emergency Management Australia launched a program known as 'Earthquake Zonation Mapping of Urban Areas in Australia', which quantitatively assesses earthquake hazard and vulnerability of specific urban areas. These zonation maps are completed for four urban areas of Australia, which provide necessary quanti...
As you know, I’m the most committed of climate change sceptics, but I think this is an obvious effect of an earthquake. So obvious it barely needs scientific study. Grab the edge of your duvet and flick it as though making the bed. Presto, the other end of the duvet ...
Over the past 100 years, at least 150 novels and films have pictured the destruction of Los Angeles by earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, volcano, nuclear war, and extraterrestrials. InImagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction, David Fine explains the phenomenon: ...
such as the earthquake location and magnitude, with reasonable results7,42. Another alternative can be the use of Machine Learning techniques such as neural networks, which can be understood as a special type of emulator. These have gained significant attention lately because they can reduce the ...
61 speaking, there are two schools of linguists, both of whom try to explain 62 a child picks up a language so easily. The fact that a child picks a language 63 is 64 : At one year old, a child is able to say “bye-bye”; at two, he is able to use fifty; by there he ...
1 Because popular beliefs frequently related the activities of malignant spirits and demons to the unstable conditions of one’s home and threats to its inhabitants, a special emphasis was placed on finding ways to deal with these potentially troublesome entities. Ānzhái 安宅is still an ...
The prioritisation of survival over education for this CHH was challenging and distressing to them. CHHs were somewhat envious of other children who did not have to take on such premature burdens of responsibility. Two CHHs reported a “positive” effect from the government directive when they clos...