An outbreak of acute neurological illness associated with drinking water source following a cyclone in Eluru, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India, December 2020 by Sahil Sharma, Purvi Patel, Sanket Vasant Kulkarni, Avinash Deoshatwar, Rajesh Yadav, Sukarma Tanwar, Kata Manohar, Joshi Roy Dolla, Sudhir Kumar Jain, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Tanzin Dikid

“…We recommended strengthening safe water surveillance in natural disaster response contingency plans in Eluru.…”
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Earthquake Damage Assessment in Three Spatial Scale Using Naive Bayes, SVM, and Deep Learning Algorithms by Sajjad Ahadzadeh, Mohammad Reza Malek

“…The ability to quickly assess damage across a vast area is crucial for effective disaster response. In recent years, social networks have demonstrated a lot of capability for improving situational awareness and identifying impacted areas. …”
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Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment and Zonation by Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Model with Diverse Spatial Data by Aqil Tariq, Jianguo Yan, Bushra Ghaffar, Shujing Qin, B. G. Mousa, Alireza Sharifi, Md. Enamul Huq, Muhammad Aslam

“…It provides policy guidelines for risk managers, emergency and disaster response services, urban and infrastructure planners, hydrologists, and climate scientists.…”
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Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment and Zonation Using an Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Model for the Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by Hassan Waqas, Linlin Lu, Aqil Tariq, Qingting Li, Muhammad Fahad Baqa, Jici Xing, Asif Sajjad

“…This study is pioneering in its field and provides policy guidelines for risk managers, emergency and disaster response services, urban and infrastructure planners, hydrologists, and climate scientists.…”
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The "+Add" Model : a proposed strategic framework to create agile high performance aerospace and defense product support supply chains by Riwes, Mina (Mina Diaa)

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Assessing earthquake-induced housing damage: A fuzzy Ahp approach incorporating local parameters and Pga Zoning in the Bantul District, Indonesia by Bawono, A. S., Noram Irwan, Ramli, Mohamad Idris, Ali

“…Policymakers had the opportunity to tailor disaster response plans based on the predominant damage state in each zone, allowing them to prioritize evacuations and resource deployment accordingly. …”
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Societal vulnerability in the context of population aging—Perceptions of healthcare students' in Saudi Arabia by Osama A. Samarkandi, Mohammed Aljuaid, Mohammed Abdulrahman Alkohaiz, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Abdullah Mohammed Alobaid, Abdullah A. Alghamdi, Mohammed A. Alhallaf, Nawaf A. Albaqami

“…Furthermore, we suggest informing emergency services disaster response planning processes about educational intervention to overcome disasters in Saudi Arabia and other countries.…”
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Reporting of surgical response to disasters in low-income and middle-income countries: a literature review by Luke Caddell, MS, Taylor Wurdeman, BS, Rolvix H Patterson, BA, Jordan Pyda, MD, Rachel Koch, MD, John G Meara, MD, Scott Corlew, MD

“…We encourage the incorporation of quantitative surgical metrics when reporting outcomes after disaster response, and propose the 4S framework as a conceptual model for reporting such metrics and understanding the surgical system response to disasters. …”
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Assessing Earthquake Impacts and Monitoring Resilience of Historic Areas: Methods for GIS Tools by Sonia Giovinazzi, Corinna Marchili, Antonio Di Pietro, Ludovica Giordano, Antonio Costanzo, Luigi La Porta, Maurizio Pollino, Vittorio Rosato, Daniel Lückerath, Katharina Milde, Oliver Ullrich

“…Our conclusions show how ARCH DSS can inform and contribute to increasing awareness of the vulnerabilities of HAs and of the severity of the potential impacts, thus supporting effective decision making on mitigation strategies, post-disaster response, and build back better.…”
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Mobile Apps to Support Mental Health Response in Natural Disasters: Scoping Review by Nwamaka Alexandra Ezeonu, Attila J Hertelendy, Medard Kofi Adu, Janice Y Kung, Ijeoma Uchenna Itanyi, Raquel da Luz Dias, Belinda Agyapong, Petra Hertelendy, Francis Ohanyido, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong, Ejemai Eboreime

“…The mobile phone apps for the interventions included Training for Life Skills, Sonoma Rises, Headspace, Psychological First Aid, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Behavioural Health Disaster Response Apps. The different studies assessed the effectiveness or efficacy of the mobile app, feasibility, acceptability, and characteristics of app use or predictors of use. …”
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Dynamic Mapping of Paddy Rice Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Data Based on a Deep Semantic Segmentation Model by Meiqi Du, Jingfeng Huang, Pengliang Wei, Lingbo Yang, Dengfeng Chai, Dailiang Peng, Jinming Sha, Weiwei Sun, Ran Huang

“…Dynamic mapping is not only essential to assist farms and governments for growth monitoring and production assessment in the growing season, but also to support mitigation and disaster response strategies in the different growth stages of rice.…”
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Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad by Brian Tomaszewski, Amy Walker, Emily Gawlik, Casey Lane, Scott Williams, Deborah Orieta, Claudia McDaniel, Matthew Plummer, Anushka Nair, Nicolas San Jose, Nathan Terrell, Kyle Pecsok, Emma Thomley, Erin Mahoney, Emily Haberlack, David Schwartz

“…Results of evaluation of the four skills via Project Lily Pad through a “think aloud” study conducted by both emergency management novices and professionals revealed that the game encouraged players to think spatially, can help build awareness for disaster response scenarios, and has potential for real-life use by emergency management professionals. …”
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Determining the optimal river gauge location for a flood early warning system in Uganda using HEC-RAS and AHP by Cheung, Joyce, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Essays on material flow management during disasters : material convergence and panic buying by Martin, J. Lemuel

“…A common problem in disaster response is the management of material flowing into the disaster area, known as material convergence, wherein most arriving supply is unneeded. …”
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Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment : Rebuilding for Resilience / by Haigh, Richard, editor 358667, Amaratunga, Dilanthi, editor 517255

A New Method for the Identification of Earthquake-Damaged Buildings Using Sentinel-1 Multitemporal Coherence Optimized by Homogeneous SAR Pixels and Histogram Matching by Haihui Liu, Chuang Song, Zhenhong Li, Zhenjiang Liu, Liangyu Ta, Xuesong Zhang, Bo Chen, Bingquan Han, Jianbing Peng

“…Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is now widely used in disaster response efforts due to its full-time and all-weather capability. …”
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Unlocking the capabilities of explainable few‑shot learning in remote sensing by Lee, Gao Yu, Dam, Tanmoy, Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Poenar, Daniel Puiu, Duong, Vu N.

“…In remote sensing, where decisions based on model predictions can have significant consequences, such as in natural disaster response or environmental monitoring, the transparency provided by XAI is crucial. …”
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Mitigating Psychological Problems Associated with the 2023 Wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia: Six-Week Outcomes from the Text4Hope Program by Gloria Obuobi-Donkor, Reham Shalaby, Belinda Agyapong, Raquel da Luz Dias, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong

“…Policymakers and mental health professionals should consider these findings when shaping strategies for future disaster response efforts, emphasizing the value of scalable and culturally sensitive mental health interventions.…”
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Hospital-Level Implementation Barriers, Facilitators, and Willingness to Use a New Regional Disaster Teleconsultation System: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Tehnaz Boyle, Krislyn Boggs, Jingya Gao, Maureen McMahon, Rachel Bedenbaugh, Lauren Schmidt, Kori Sauser Zachrison, Eric Goralnick, Paul Biddinger, Carlos A Camargo Jr

“…We examined state-wise hospital and ED disaster response capability. ResultsOverall, 164 (87%) hospitals and EDs responded—126 (77%) completed telephone surveys. …”
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Assessment of disaster preparedness and related impact factors among emergency nurses in tertiary hospitals: descriptive cross-sectional study from Henan Province of China by Jiange Zhang, Jiange Zhang, Lei Yang, Xue Cao, Ying Ren, Ying Ren, Xu Han, Xu Han, Shuting Zang, Shuting Zang, Fangfang Cai, Lijun Xu, Lijie Qin, Peirong Zhang, Yanwei Cheng

“…Five factors positively correlated with the levels of disaster preparedness included having attended in the theoretical knowledge training of disaster nursing since work (B = 8.937, p = 0.043), having experienced the disaster response (B = 8.280, p = 0.036), having participated in the disaster rescue simulation exercise (B = 8.929, p = 0.039), having participated in the disaster relief training (B = 11.515, p = 0.025), as well as having participated in the training of disaster nursing specialist nurse (B = 16.101, p = 0.002). …”
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