Crude politics spewing from oil rig disaster It's staggering. But all the whore media asks is if it's "Obama's Katrina" by Gene Lyons Link Send e-mail to Bart Marty's has new stuff every day on her fine, fine Entertainment Page 1,000+ daily issues in a row Marty always ...
WIDP has been a bit of a disaster. It was probably marginal when it was originally approved and since then there have been several years of delays, cost overruns because of quality and safety issues, mostly from the Chinese shipyard that won the fixed price construction contract, a couple ...
We don't need any Easter Egg Rolls or cutesy anything while that oil is gushing. Yes, he needs his time to relax but if he's seen clowning around with anybody during this months-long disaster, it's going to come off just like this. ...
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Underwater wireless communication (UWC) has widespread appli- cations, including real-time aquatic data collection, naval surveillance, natural disaster prevention, archaeological expeditions, oil and gas exploration, shipwreck exploration, maritime security, and the monitoring of aquatic species and water ...
Vulnerability is dynamic and variable across temporal and spatial scales and, is a function of several factors such as geographic conditions, disaster warning and preparedness systems, defensive capacities and governance [33–35]. To characterize regional vulnerability is challenging, especially given the...
Keywords: Damaged area; direct economic loss; disaster; drought; extreme precipitation 1. Introduction With global warming, the numbers of extreme precipitation events may increase in many areas [1–3]. Increased frequency of extreme events leads to increased frequency and intensity of floods and ...
Kaloop 1,2,3 ID , Emad Elbeltagi 4 ID , Jong Wan Hu 1,2,* ID and Ahmed Elrefai 5 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; mosbeh@mans.edu.eg 2 Incheon Disaster Prevention Research Center, Incheon National University, Incheon...
These distributed sensors can be used for disaster prevention in the civil structural monitoring of pipelines, bridges, dams and railroads. A sensor with centimeter spatial resolution and high precision measurement of temperature, strain, vibration and birefringence can find applications in aerospace smart...
These distributed sensors can be used for disaster prevention in the civil structural monitoring of pipelines, bridges, dams and railroads. A sensor with centimeter spatial resolution and high precision measurement of temperature, strain, vibration and birefringence can find applications in aerospace smart...