Disasters in Malaysia: tomorrow is a mystery by Duraisamy, Youventharan, Mohamad Idris, Ali, Noram Irwan, Ramli, Rokiah, Othman, Mohd Arif, Sulaiman

“…Lately there are high occurrences of natural disasters in Malaysia. Does it have anything to do with earth been suffering from extreme weather conditions or could be any other reasons to it. …”
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The impact of floods on safe drinking water supply and sanitation in Southeast Asia: A health priority - review by Qasim, Ban, Abdul Syukor, Abd Razak

“…Floods are the most common natural disasters in the developing countries, approximately 40% of all natural disasters.…”
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A review on disaster prediction using machine learning by Farghaly, Alaa Taiseer, Ngahzaifa, Ab Ghani, Abbas Saliimi, Lokman

“…Climate changes are increasing, with it the natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes forest fire, and floods occurrence rate are also on the rise. …”
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Increasing disaster awareness of the community by flood potential mapping of densely-populated urban river watershed in south and west Jakarta with LIDAR data segmentation by Margatama, Lestari, Al-Hikmah, Silvia Salmi, Riyanto, Indra, Pebrianti, Dwi, Bayuaji, Luhur, Sudiana, Dodi, Sri Sumantyo, Josaphat Tetuko

“…Degradation of environment quality is currently the prime cause of the recent occurrence of natural disasters; it also contributes in the increase of the area that is prone to natural disasters. …”
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UMP volunteers draw up mission to assist Kota Palu victims by Nor Fatin Nabilah, Mohd Tahir

“…Stirred by the plight of victims suffering from the double natural disasters of earthquake and tsunami, which hit Kota Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia, last September 28, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) volunteers -comprising Students Movement (GPS) in collaboration with the Chemical Engineering Students Association (CHEST) – have drawn up a programmed called Palu Humanitarian Mission to help lighten the former’s burden.…”
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Analysis of method stability of slope failure using slope/w and manual calculation for redesigning failed slope - a case study by Anshana Suwanno, Tan

“…Slope failure have become one of the most natural disasters that commonly happened in Malaysia due to many factors. …”
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The effect of wind load on roof truss system by Nur Alif, Ismail

“…From the past record, one of the top ten natural disasters occurred in Malaysia is wind storm. However the understanding of wind behavior to roof truss system is not well defined. …”
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MIAC the study of erosion control by Mohamad Ashraf, Abd Latif

“…Deforestation cause protected land to be exposed to various natural disasters. This is due to inability o f the forests to function as rain catchment areas. …”
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The potential of damages induced by wind speed by Wan Mohd Asyraf, Wan Mohd Razali

“…Malaysia is located near the equator and natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes usually not occur in Malaysia. …”
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Evaluation of roof truss system under wind load using SAP 2000 by Sharizan , Ramli

“…From past record, one of the top ten natural disasters occurred in Malaysia is windstorm. Windstorm has caused many failures to structure especially roof truss. …”
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A Review of Supply Chain Risk Management in Agribusiness Industry by Widiyanesti, Sri, Fernando, Yudi

“…Problems often arise in the field of supply chain risk which link to commodities in Indonesia, among others: price fluctuation, the scarcity of the commodity, supply and demand are not balanced, distribution and production costs are expensive, raw material commodities that are imported, and natural disasters. Companies which engaged in agricultural business have high risk of survival and not even grow. …”
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Portable water alarm detector by Linn, Wen Teck

“…One of the most common natural disasters that hit our country is flood. Many lives have perished in this hazardous natural disaster. …”
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Short term forecasting based on hybrid least squares support vector machines by Zuriani, Mustaffa, M. H., Sulaiman, Ernawan, Ferda, Noorhuzaimi, Mohd Noor

“…Flood is one of the common natural disasters that have caused universal damage throughout the world. …”
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Wireless Smart Sensor Network for Flood Management Optimization by Alfarra, Hossam Adden, Alsibai, Mohammad Hayyan

“…Flood is one of the most dangerous natural disasters that occurs frequently in south Asia. …”
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A connection probability model for communications networks under regional failures by Kabir, M. Nomani, Rahman, Md. Arafatur, Azad, Saiful, Azim, Mohamed Mostafa A., Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam

“…Communications networks are often disrupted by human-initiated and natural disasters such as terrorist bombings, aerial bombardment, earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions. …”
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Wide area measurement system in the IEEE-14 bus system using multiobjective shortest path algorithm for fault analysis by Awalin, Lilik J., Syahirah, Abd Halim, Jafferi, Jamaludin, Nor Azuana, Ramli

“…The power system's ability to supply all types of loads during natural disasters or faults has yet to be addressed. This work focuses on developing a wide-area measurement system to manage and control the power system under all operating conditions. …”
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The impact of watershed hydrology on landscape development by Naim Shauqi , Mohd Noor

“…The problem is rises when the landscape development analysis and modeling Is neglected when there are extremely natural disasters happen but in silent the impact or effect on the deposition on the river bed can be important particularly when threshold are involved in the development. …”
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Forecasting the streamflow changes trend by sdsm-ihacres model at Sg Jeram, Pahang by Muhamad Syarifuddin, Yem

“…So, it is vital to assist water reservoir management by evaluating future streamflow pattern especially in Malaysia where the natural disasters such as droughts and flood cannot be expected. …”
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Investigating older adults' attitudes towards crisis informatics tools: Opportunities for enhancing by Nurul M., Suhaimi, Zhang, Yixuan, Joseph, Mary, Kim, Miso, Parker, Andrea G., Griffin, Jacqueline

“…However, little work has examined how technology can support older adults during crises, despite increasingly common natural disasters, public health emergencies, and other crisis scenarios in which older adults are especially vulnerable. …”
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Modification of pervious concrete using steel slag as an aggregate replacement : application at Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia by Yafouz, Ayman Mohammed Shaher

“…Floods are the most significant natural disasters which affect 4.9 million people and inflict damage worth of several million every year in Malaysia. …”
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