Tornado Fatalities in Context: 1995–2018

Tornado Warnings and Tornado Fatalities : The Case of May 22 , 2011 Tornado in Joplin , Missouri

Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Tornado Fatalities in the United States: 1880–2005

A dataset of killer tornadoes is compiled and analyzed spatially in order to assess region-specific vulnerabilities in the United States from 1880 to 2005. Results reveal that most tornado fatalities occur in the lower–Arkansas, Tennessee, and lower–Mississippi River valleys of the southeastern United States—a region outside of traditional “tornado alley.” Analysis of variables including tornad...

norms and ideology in translation of children literature in persian context

اهداف عمده ی این مطالعه دو دسته هستند:1) تعیین هنجار های اجتماعی فرهنگی مورد استفاده در ترجمه ی کتاب کودک برای کودکان ایرانی 2) بررسی مفهوم کودک در ایران و ائدئولوژی این جامعه در رابطه با کودک که مترجم را مجبور به بازسازی کتابهای داستان برای کودکان ایرانی میکند. به این منظور, ابتدا ,مجموعه ای از 30 کتاب داستان و ترجمه های فارسی انها بر اساس مدلlambert and van gorp(2006)مقایسه شد و سپس استراتژیه...

Tornado Forecasting: A Review

Present-day operational tornado forecasting can be thought of in two parts: anticipation of tornadic potential in the storm environment, and recognition of tornadic storms once they develop. The former is a forecasting issue, while the latter is associated with warnings (or so-called nowcasting). This paper focuses on the forecasting aspect of tornadoes1, by dealing primarily with the relations...

Tornado Inflicted Damages Pattern

On average, about a thousand tornadoes hit the United States every year. Three out of every four tornadoes in the world, occur in the United States. They damage life and property in their path and they often hit with very little, sometimes no warning. Tornadoes cause approximately 70 fatalities and 1,500 injuries in US every year. The interest of this study is to find whether the fatalities and...