Underwater shield tunneling will disturb the soil near river, especially in water-rich soft ground. This may cause a groundwater infiltration hydraulic gradient to exceed critical value, leading calamities, such as unexpected flooding or submerged erosion. To ensure security of construction and stability river embankment seepage, it is crucial assess safety underwater tunnel cover thickness. A ...

Floods are one of the most severe and frequent natural calamities. It causes enormous economic damage even leads to higher mortality rates. Studies on detection roads using artificial intelligence (AI) methods gained more attention currently, especially in development smart cities. Therefore, this study designs an optimal Fuzzy Wavelet Neural Network based Road Damage Detection (OFWNN-RDD) tech...

It may appear that the act of writing is fruitless in face size and open-ended complexity gathering environmental calamities including global heating, species extinction, appearance plastic everything. And yet – poets others continue to write ways allow us think about earth’s futures and, more specifically, future place catastrophic times. Geo, Eco Topo poetics are acts making earth, home, plac...

A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in three severely affected districts of Gujarat, to assess the impact of drought on diet and nutritional status of the population, household (HH) food security, the coping strategies adopted by the community and the extent of HH participation in relief works were also assessed. Food insecurity was reported by about half of the HHs and almost all the HHs r...

Data backup and archiving is an important aspect of business processes to avoid loss due to system failures and natural calamities. As the amount of data and applications grow in number, concerns regarding cost efficient data preservation force organizations to scout for inexpensive storage options. Addressing these concerns, we present Tape Cloud, a novel, highly cost effective, unified storag...

There is reason to believe that the vagus nerve carries sensory afferent messages from the intracranial cavity as it does from the other body cavities. Considering the arachnoid granulations as a secretory apparatus instead of an organ transporting cerebrospinal fluid, a simple model can be built. Assuming that the arachnoid granulations produce nitric oxide in accordance with changes in the in...

One explanation of the abrupt cooling episode known as the Younger Dryas (YD) is a cosmic impact or airburst at the YD boundary (YDB) that triggered cooling and resulted in other calamities, including the disappearance of the Clovis culture and the extinction of many large mammal species. We tested the YDB impact hypothesis by analyzing ice samples from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2)...

C2000 is a communication system based on the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) protocol and is used in the Netherlands by emergency services. We investigated the resilience of the voice component of C2000 against intelligent intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI). Low power signals interfering with the system’s higher protocols have the advantage of staying covert. The analysis shows t...

Drought is one of the major natural calamities causing important damages to natural vegetation, agriculture and the society. The climate changes scenarios forecast the increase and intensification of extreme phenomena all over the globe. Romania is one of the most vulnerable countries, and has 7 million hectares located within areas affected by the risk of desertification. An integrated system ...

Online social microblogging platforms including Twitter are increasingly used for aiding relief operations during disaster events. During most of the calamities that can be natural disasters or even armed attacks, non-governmental organizations look for critical information about resources to support effected people. Despite the recent advancement of natural language processing with deep neural...