On the robustness of network infrastructures to disasters and physical attacks gan Neumayer, Sebastian James

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Segmentation and supercycles : a catalog of earthquake rupture patterns from the Sumatran Sunda Megathrust and other well-studied faults worldwide gan Philibosian, Belle, Meltzner, Aron J.

“...After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense against seismic natural disasters. A concept that has come into focus more recently is that rupture segmentation and cyclicity can be complex, and that a characteristic earthquake model is too simple to adequately describe much of fault behavior. ...”
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Balancing utility and privacy of high-dimensional datasets : mobile phone metadata gan Noriega Campero, Alejandro

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Strategic and analytics-driven inspection operations for critical infrastructure resilience gan Dahan, Mathieu.

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Empirical essays on finance and development gan Shapiro, Jeremy Place

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Energy flows : empowering New Orleans gan Guiraud, Florence Nathalie

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社会记忆与身份认同 ：新加坡连续剧《红头巾》案例分析 = Case study of TV series Samsui Women : analysis of the construction of social memory and national identity... gan 陈嘉懿 Tan, Jia Yi

“...The Samsui women’s lives were poor back in their hometown, along with natural disasters and loose immigration policies in the nearby Southeast Asian countries, these were the reasons that prompted them to migrate to Singapore. ...”
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Present and future climate risks to global port infrastructure and maritime trade flows gan Verschuur, J

“...<p>Ports are vulnerable to the impacts of climatic extremes and natural disasters, which are expected to become more severe as a result of climate change. ...”

Diversity, ecology, and distribution of non-indigenous freshwater fish in Malaysia. gan Abdul Rahim, Khairul Adha

“...The intentional and unintentional introduction of non-indigenous fish species for various purposes, such as aquaculture development, aquarium fish industry, recreational fishing activities, natural disasters, biological control, and continuous released by Buddhist followers as part of their religious activities have caused a widespread distribution and establishment of nonindigenous species in local ecosystems. ...”
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Tsunami earthquakes : vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust gan Hananto, N. D., Leclerc, F., Li, L., Etchebes, M., Carton, H., Tapponnier, P., Qin, Y., Avianto, P., Singh, S.C., Wei, S.

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Submarine landslides in the west continental slope of the South China Sea and their tsunamigenic potential gan Pan, Xiaoyi, Li, Linlin, Nguyễn, Hồng Phương, Wang, Dawei, Switzer, Adam D.

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Essays on culture, institutions and comparative development gan Wang, Jun

“...In Chapter 2, we turn to another considerable survival threat for humans, namely natural disasters. We examine the origin of long-term orientation (LTO) by exploiting the variation in historical exposure to significant disasters. ...”
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Resilience-oriented power system restoration considering complex load behaviors gan Xie, Dunjian

“...Extreme natural disasters have caused significant power outages, resulting in massive economic and social losses. ...”
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新加坡华人移民的历史建构 ： 以电视剧《信约》三部曲为例 = The history of Chinese Immigrants in Singapore : a case study of the TV drama the journey gan 林美玲 Lin, Meiling

“...In a period where China was facing internal and external conflicts such as wars and natural disasters, these immigrants were mainly farmers from the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. ...”
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The Lisbon earthquake of 1755

“...<br/>The most momentous natural disasters are not necessarily those with the most victims, but rather those producing the greatest shockwaves in intellectual history. ...”

A temporal and spatial analysis of China’s infrastructure and economic vulnerability to climate change impacts gan Hu, X

“...<p>A warmer climate is expected to increase the risks of natural disasters globally. China is one of the hotspots of climate impacts since its infrastructures and industries are often hard hit. ...”

Optimized techniques for landslide detection and characteristics using LiDAR data gan Mezaal, Mustafa Ridha

“...Landslides are one of the major natural disasters that cause severe damage to lives and properties worldwide. ...”
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Effect of social marketing mix and attitude on farmers’ flood preparedness behavior in the east coast of Malaysia gan Gazali, Umar Muhammad

“...The agricultural sector in Malaysia is exposed to natural disasters such as flood, landslide, drought, thunderstorm and other natural catastrophes. ...”
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The effects of perceptions of a malicious intent to harm on victims' prosocial intentions during a crisis gan Goh, Pamela

“...Non-agentic threats are those that occurred as a result of other reasons apart from human intentions, e.g., natural disasters and vehicle accidents. Attribution of agency behind a crisis seemingly promotes proself inclinations in people; with reference to various concepts such as anthropomorphism, protection motivation theory, and the use of heuristics to interpret a situation, reasons for this tendency could be on part of the amplification of pain and threat perceptions arising from perceived agency. ...”
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Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease St... gan GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators, Wang, H, Abajobir, A, Abate, K, Bennett, D, Bisanzio, D, Deribew, A, Gething, P, Hay, S, Ali, R, Rahimi, K, Jha, V

“...Using various international databases, we identified fatal discontinuities, which we defined as increases in the death rate of more than one death per million, resulting from conflict and terrorism, natural disasters, major transport or technological accidents, and a subset of epidemic infectious diseases; these were added to estimates in the relevant years. ...”