In recent years humans have endured increasing number of natural disasters, of which flood is the greatest and most common throughout the world. Flood..Ajin. R. SR. R. KrishnamurthyM. JayaprakashVinod. P. G
while, it had no effect on corn and rice yields. The Tmaxand Tminhad no significant effect on wheat yield. A 1 °C rise in Tmaxsignificantly decreased corn (− 34%) and rice (− 8.30%) yield which was offset by a 1 °C increase in Tminincreasing corn (47%) and rice (2...
History shows repeatedly that major disasters are often preceded by a series of smaller accidents, near-misses, or accident precursors. This was true in some of the most notorious accidents in recent decades. In the Challenger space-shuttle accident, engineers at NASA and its contractor, Morton T...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or pilotless aircraft operates with advanced components including a physical model, Ground Control Station (GCS), modern sensors and a platform for ease of communication between them. In the past, UAVs are used for civilian and military operations such as rescue and ...
automobiles, and sports industries for so-called “durable” products, increased number of animal species on the endangered list of extinction, forest fires of the Amazon, increased floods and other natural disasters, and many more instances have negatively impacted the environment as well as human ...
It compromises agricultural production in some of the least developed countries, and it increases the hazards of weather-related disasters. Therefore global warming, together with the changes in food and water supplies it causes, can indirectly spurs increases in such diseases as malnutrition, diarrhea...
and regions affected by natural disasters, as well as areas with civil unrest, show a higher burden of disease (BoD) associated with parasitic diseases [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. Helminthiasis caused by intestinal parasitic worms is common in economically weaker parts of the world with limited acc...
(They act like life under Bill Clinton could not have been worse, and they say that AFTER seven years of the Bush Disasters.)If she wants to run on her husband’s record, then it’s worth pointing out that the Clinton Administration wasn’t the progressive paradise that she’s ...
Change detection is the process of identifying areas that have experienced modifications by jointly analyzing two or more registered images [205], whether the change is caused by natural disasters or urban expansions. Change detection has very important applications in land use and land cover analysis...
Natural events, such as storms, earthquakes, or floods, are well-known hazards with widespread potential to turn into disasters. While these events are mostly sudden and occur in a relatively short time window, slower processes, such as fatigue, corrosion, ageing, etc., can also impact structur...