Grasping emergency dynamics: A review of group evacuation techniques and strategies in major emergencies
March 2025
Major sudden disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, and fires, often cause significant casualties. Emergency evacuation is crucial in mitigating these impacts. Different types of disaster incidents...
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A spatial scene reconstruction framework in emergency response scenario
December 2024
Rapid and accurate acquisition and analysis of information is crucial for emergency management, but traditional methods have limitations such as incomplete information acquisition and slow processing...
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Comfort assessment of wind induced vibrations for slender structures by field monitoring and numerical analysis
December 2024
Slender structures often lead to vibration discomfort for occupants when exposed to wind forces. This study proposes an innovative method for assessing comfort against wind-induced vibrations for slender...
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YOLOv8-EMSC: A lightweight fire recognition algorithm for large spaces
December 2024
Stringent fire prevention requirements are imperative in expansive environments. Fire detection in diverse large-scale settings typically relies on sensor-based or AI-driven target detection methods....
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Exploring the risks of automation bias in healthcare artificial intelligence applications: A Bowtie analysis
December 2024
This study conducts an in-depth review and Bowtie analysis of automation bias in AI-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) within healthcare settings. Automation bias, the tendency of human...
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DyHDGE: Dynamic heterogeneous transaction graph embedding for safety-centric fraud detection in financial scenarios
December 2024
•Offer a method that extracts temporal and structural information from a dynamic graph.•Utilize multiple encoders to process heterogeneous nodes to reduce noisy features.•Utilize the loss function to...
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Improving the industrial safety management system at enterprises with chemically hazardous sites
December 2024
This study focuses on developing an industrial and occupational safety management system for enterprises that contain chemically hazardous sites. The methodology, based on an expert approach, enabled...
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Determination of individual disaster resilience levels of hospital staff: A case study of Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kirdar City Hospital
December 2024
Istanbul is one of Turkey's most important financial and industrial centers, and it is located in a region with a high potential for seismicity. Due to its historical architecture and high level of...
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Risk assessment of fire casualty in underground commercial building based on FFTA-BN model
December 2024
•Development of a fire casualty risk assessment model for underground commercial building integrating FFTA and BN.•From post-incident and pre-incident perspectives to provide decision support for emergency...
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Scenario construction and vulnerability assessment of natural hazards-triggered power grid accidents
December 2024
In light of escalating urbanization trends and climate change impacts worldwide, the susceptibility of urban power grids to natural disasters has become an overarching global concern. Prior research...
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Multi-factor coupled forest fire model based on cellular automata
December 2024
The risk of forest fires is substantial due to uneven precipitation distributions and abnormal climate change. This study employs cellular automata principles to analyze forest fire behavior, taking...
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The Value of a Statistical Life in Assessing Seismic Resilience Enhancement Policies: A Stated Preference Binary Choice Experiment
Available online 16 November 2024
To decide about investments in appropriate seismic vulnerability reduction and resilience enhancement measures, policymakers need to acquire adequate insight into the value of a statistical life (VSL)....
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Steganographic Model to Conceal the Secret Data in Audio Files Utilizing a Fourfold Paradigm: Interpolation, Multi-Layering, Optimized Sample Space, and Smoothing
Available online 15 November 2024
Audio steganography techniques are evaluated using performance metrics such as payload capacity, stego audio file quality, and security (imperceptibility of hidden data). Increasing payload capacity...
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A data fusion-based method for pedestrian detection and flow statistics across different crowd densities
Available online 28 October 2024
Accurate tracking and statistics analysis of pedestrian flow have wide applications in public scenarios. However, the conventional tracking-by-detection approaches are prone to missing individuals in...
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A systematic review of safety risk assessment research in China
Available online 19 October 2024
The rapid industrialization and urbanization in China require a high level of safety management and thus urge the development of safety risk assessment in China. In the past two decades, many safety...
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An efficient and resilience linear prefix approach for mining maximal frequent itemset using clustering
Available online 19 October 2024
The numerous volumes of data generated every day necessitate the deployment of new technologies capable of dealing with massive amounts of data efficiently. This is the case with Association Rules,...
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A systematic review of urban terrorism literature: Root causes, thematic trends, and future directions
September 2024
Urban terrorism is a significant global concern, prompting extensive scholarly inquiry into its underlying causes and effects. However, a comprehensive literature review summarizing this body of knowledge...
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Cascade failure modeling and resilience analysis of mine cyber physical systems under deliberate attacks
September 2024
Guided by the intelligent construction of coal mines and integrating the concept of the Cyber-Physical System (CPS), a novel approach to a coal mine information-physical fusion system is proposed. This...
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Shortest or locally quickest? A prediction-based approach for evacuation choice simulation between multiple staircases
September 2024
Staircase choice is one of the most critical factors leading to the difference in pedestrian flow and evacuation routes in buildings with multiple staircases. Neither the shortest path to the building...
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COVID-19 and regional resilience: Trends, priorities, and the geography of research
September 2024
The global economic crisis of 2008–2013 led to the emergence of the concept of resilience, which focuses on the ability of socio-economic system store cover socially, economically, and environmentally...
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Seismic risk assessment and damage analysis: Emerging trends and new developments
September 2024
Earthquakes are major catastrophes that cause great life and economic losses to human society and environment. This paper reviews and synthesizes relevant studies, drawing from a systematic examination...
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Integrating flood and earthquake resilience: a framework for assessing urban community resilience against multiple hazards
September 2024
•Study incorporates seismic and flood indicators for city resilience.•DEMATEL technique used for flood & earthquake analysis.•The cluster of response capacity has the most impact on seismic and flood...
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Evaluating the impact of safety pictogram training on comprehension scores and knowledge retention among engineering students
September 2024
Safety pictograms are essential tools for identifying workplace hazards by providing critical information about health hazard risks, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and accident prevention. Effective...
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Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a fuel and the associated risks: A quantitative analysis in the scenario of a developing country
September 2024
Excessive dependence on fossil fuels has precipitated various challenges, including Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, health hazards, and the depletion of natural resources. Such perils underscore the...
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An integrative risk assessment approach to enhancing patient safety in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
September 2024
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) serves as an intervention strategy for the management of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients. However, owing to its complex nature and the...
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