(1) The author gratefully acknowledges valuable comments from five reviewers, Keith Beven, Jim Hall, Irina Krasovskaia, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, and Bellie Sivakumar. They helped the author to improve and enrich the chapter. (2) The work on this chapter was carried out within the WATCH (Water and Global Change) Integrated Project of the European Union's 6th Framework Programme. Floods are an inc...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the Department of Health and Human Services offers extensive disaster behavior health resources to assist disaster survivors in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and manmade disasters. One of SAMHSA's most innovative resources is the SAMHSA Behavioral Health Disaster Response App (SAMHSA Disaster A...

In this paper, we present an approach in which synchronization of chaos is used to address identification problems. In particular, we are able to identify (i) the discontinuity points of systems described by piecewise dynamical equations and (ii) the delays of systems described by delay differential equations. Delays and discontinuities are widespread features of the dynamics of both natural an...

BACKGROUND Natural and manmade disasters are creating increasingly complex response challenges. The current U.S. emergency response model relies heavily upon the availability and expertise of highly trained public safety agencies. Too often, this leads the public and our leaders to assume that professional emergency medical care will be immediately available. Unfortunately, there are often dela...

Correspondence to Shyam Sundar Budhathoki; [email protected] My friend’s uncle in his 50s living in Hetauda, Nepal had severe left-sided chest pain while working one evening. His colleague took him on a motorbike—twowheeler in local parlance—to a nearby hospital, arriving 45 min after the pain had started. The ECG and cardiac enzymes suggested an acute ST-elevated myocardial infarction. T...

A mathematical model describing the dissolution and disintegration of long fibers and the clearance of short fibers is developed. For short fiber clearance, the model is based on previous modeling of the retention and clearance of particles, and most model parameters are taken from that particulate model. In addition to modeling the disappearance of long fibers, the present study includes a qua...

in this paper, a new circuit is proposed for step-up z-source inverter based on qzsi (quasi-z-source inverter). the proposed topology inherits all advantages of the conventional topology. the proposed topology in comparison with conventional topology reduces the st (shoot-through) duty cycle by over 25% at the same voltage boost factor. theoretical analysis of the proposed qzsi in the st and no...

Abstract A mining company is a complex probabilistic system which functions in-between the geological and market environments. These environments are carriers of various uncertainties have influence on business success. The authors discuss background differentiation mineral resource potential in terms coal field as transformation natural possibility to manmade reality. It distinguished between ...