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Social Considerations: Health, Economics, and Risk Communication
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social...
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Compatibility of the SES Generation Model with the Precursory Phenomena Before the Tohoku M9 Earthquake in Japan in 2011
Applying naturalNatural time analysis of seismicity time analysis to the JapanJapanese seismicity from 1 January 1984 until the M9Earthquake, EQ...
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Unveiling the hazards: comprehensive assessment of paraquat herbicide’s toxicity and health effects
Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide commonly used to control weeds and unwanted vegetation in various agricultural, horticultural, and industrial...
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Weather Dependence: A Myth or Reality? A Case Study for Arterial Hypertension
AbstractThe paper examines the relationship of meteorological factors with the development of cardiovascular complications. Statistically significant...
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Temporal Changes in Lethal Temperatures Above 50 °C in the Northern Hemisphere
The human body can withstand high temperatures to some extent, but exposure to temperatures exceeding human heat tolerance leads to sickness and, at...
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Planning for heat: Time activity patterns, heat hazards, and exertional heat illnesses among American interscholastic football players
For interscholastic athletes participating in outdoor sports, excessive heat can affect health, safety, and performance. Increasingly, many state...
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Temperature and Rainfall
Climate change is expected to affect the health of human beings around the world through complex mechanisms that link the environment to human...
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Applications of Natural Time Analysis to Disaster Prediction in Other Disciplines indexNatural Time
Here, we focus on the applications of naturalNatural time time analysis which have not been addressed in the previous monograph Varotsos, P.A.,...
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Temperature and Rainfall
Climate change is expected to affect the health of human beings around the world through complex mechanisms that link the environment to human...
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Cold and Health
In temperate climates, winter is the coldest season of the year (Fig. 10.1). In the winter solstice that starts on December 21, in the Northern...
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Climate Change and Health
Climate change is one of the biggest threats to human health in the twenty-first century. But before we move on to a specific description of climate...
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Urban and Environmental Hazards
The ever-rising urbanization and economic aspirations of humans have led to the increased vulnerability of humans to future hazards. The prominent...
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Biogeochemistry and Conservation Biology
Biogeochemistry, encompassing nearly all the factors for plant and animal ecological, chemical, and physical relations, has a close and even...
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Minimum of the Seismicity Entropy Change Under Time Reversal Before Major Earthquakes in Natural Time Analysis
Upon analyzing in naturalNatural time time the Olami-Feder-Christensen model,Olami-Feder-Christensen (OFC) model which is the most studied earthquake...
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Fluctuations of the Entropy Change of Seismicity Under Time Reversal Before Major Earthquakes in Natural Time Analysis
Using a sliding window of length i (number of events) through the time series of consecutive earthquakes, sliding each time by one earthquake, and...
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Temporal Correlations in the Magnitude Time Series Before and After the Minimum of the Order Parameter Fluctuations of Seismicity
Applying detrended fluctuation analysisDetrended fluctuation analysis, DFA to the earthquake Magnitude of earthquakemagnitude time series upon...
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Health impacts of extreme events
Urbanization and urban development, along with the acceleration of population growth, the development of industrial activities or the consumption of...
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A review of emergency response in disasters: present and future perspectives
With the increasing occurrence of disasters, how to respond to disasters has attracted a lot of interest. However, a systematic study of emergency...
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Health Benefits and Risks of Minerals: Bioavailability, Bio-Essentiality, Toxicity, and Pathologies
The chapter starts with the uptake of minerals in the elemental form by the human body, minerals that could be either beneficial or harmful, the...
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Methodologies for the Assessment of River Ecosystem in Southern West Bengal, India
Southern eco-regions of the state West Bengal (Lat. 22.0°–23.3° N; Long. 86.0°–88.3°E), India, is a mosaic of different landscape types, endowed with...