Mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is being touted as the most promising and potential broadband wireless technology. And the popularity rate has been surging to newer heights as the knowledge-backed service era unfolds steadily. Especially Mobile WiMAX is being projected as a real and strategic boon for developing counties such as India due to its wireless coverage ...

As a result of the increase in natural disaster losses, policy-makers, practitioners, and members of the research community around the world are seeking effective and efficient means of overcoming or minimising them. Although various theoretical constructs are beneficial to understanding the disaster phenomenon and the means of minimising losses, the disaster risk management process becomes les...

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Recently IEEE 802.16 WiMAX has attracted a lot of attention in wireless networking research and applications. An attempt had been made to compare DropTail, RED, Proportional fairness and DRR protocol model of WiMAX Point to Multi-Point mode with the focus on entry process and scheduling. DropTail queue similar to a First in First out (FIFO) queue drops tailing-after packets when the queue is fu...

In order to investigate the content evolution of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in school geography curriculum China, this research used five dimensions DRR learning framework, namely knowledge, response, action, participation, and integration, as a platform conceptual premise upon which review primary secondary standards from 1986 present. Geography carrier subject had been an integration appro...

Global and national strategy emphasises land use planning as a key mechanism for disaster risk reduction (DRR). The practice of natural hazards is devolved to local levels, making the capacity government critical achieving strategic DRR goals. This study assessed governments in Australia plan hazards. Many Local Government Areas (LGAs) had satisfactory or good hazard provision, but remoteness, ...

Field experiments were carried out at ICAR- Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad during the dry season 2015/16 and 2016/17 to study influence nitrogen rates varieties on yield attributes, yield, use efficiency, economics puddled direct-sown rice Treatments comprised four nitrogen- control (no nitrogen), N100 (100 kg N ha-1), N120 (120 ha-1) N140 (140 as main plots drought-tolerant (V1-D...

Disasters, including disaster-related activities, have been shown to precipitate, intensify, and lengthen violent conflicts, yet disasters also demonstrated the potential reduce conflict, encourage cooperation, build peace. Disaster-conflict disaster-peace literature has sought establish causal linear relationships, but research not explored with same rigour mechanisms linking these phenomena i...

Climate-related disasters are increasing in many parts of the world, yet investment disaster risk reduction (DRR) remains insufficient to manage these risks. This is despite growing recognition that DRR interventions can reduce potential impacts from as well deliver broader economic, ecological, and social co-benefits. Focusing on net benefits DRR, beyond avoiding losses damages, considered an ...