Bad Weather
Damaging events along roads during bad weather periods: a case study in Calabria (Italy)
... characterising bad weather periods; (b) the ap- proach was designed for cases in which data on damage af- fecting people are unavailable, mainly due to the lack of agencies collecting them and because of ...
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Battling Bad Weather along the Way: Meaning Making in Narrative Inquiry and Its Challenges
... I decided then that my research text would be created based on the original three sets of field texts – my teaching/research journal, my students’ weekly journals, and the life story i[r] ...
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Unit 3 - BASICS OF PROBABILITY
... They estimate that the probability of bad weather is 0.25, that of a disruptive incident is 0.15 and that bad weather and a disruptive vent will occur is 0.08. Find the probability th[r] ...
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Reliability Assessment of Radial distribution system incorporating weather effects
... from weather related failures and the SAIFI from a conventional calculation are the ...the bad weather ...of bad weather failures are illustrated pictorially in the table ...two ...
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Introduction: Philosophy and structure of this book
... the bicycle is understood, often incorrectly, to be a slower option than other forms of transport; the distance to relevant destinations; bad weather; a lack of bicycle facilities at the[r] ...
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Modeling of vessel and equipment cost for the maintenance activities of an offshore tidal energy array
... Contingency factor bad weather Distance in tidal park Vessel speed in tidal park ROV mob/demob time Time other than ROV bring Seakite onboard Inspection time / device Rate/day vessel 1 R[r] ...
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RV "John Murray" Cruise 6, 21 April 30 May 1972: Tidal recording north and east of Shetland, and geological sampling along the North British Shelf
... We also planned to take some current profiles at one or two anchor stations east of Sietland in about 50 fathoms depth, each occupying about two days, but bad weather prevented us from o[r] ...
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Robert Brown at Port Dalrymple
... Detained at Kent's Gmup through bad weather her dest•inati'on was changed whe,n Wnliam Collins, who .had 1bee1n sent off from Port Phillip in the Francis to make an examina-tion ·of Port[r] ...
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Risk analysis and strategic planning on bridge construction works at the toll road procurement projects in Central Java Province
... Bad weather is a risk with the highest level of risk interest in the high category, followed by the risk of error in design by the planner which belongs to the medium ...category. Bad weather ...
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Weather derivatives and hedging the weather risks
... “bad” weather may cause serious financial damages to corporations and individuals (see for example Brockett 2005; Chincarin ...suboptimal weather conditions (Cyr et ...the weather deriva- ...
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Voyage of the "Mary and Sally" to Macquarie Island for the purpose of obtaining sea elephant oil and seal skins
... During this fortnight of easterly gales, whilst the brig was at sea, her shore party reported that, owing to bad weather, they had got but little oil and a small lot of 30 seal skins... [r] ...
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Evaluation of Power from Solar Panels Utilization and Power Theft Identification System
... of Bad weather conditions and different global and geographical location we can extract a large amount of power from solar radiations The microcontroller block is playing a major role in this project ...
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Design of Auto Level Crossing and Signal Indicating System
... in bad weather conditions, the system controls the traffic at level crossings by automatically blowing of train horn from a specified location placed at one quarter mile in advance to the level crossing so ...
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Solutions to overcome the sea accidents
... To minimize accidents at sea, fishing vessels need to use marine radar to detect targets during the night and in bad weather, to ensure safety for ships and peo[r] ...
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Design of a Microcontroller Based Data Acquisition System for Ground Weather Observations: Evaluation of Radio Refractivity of Air
... of weather observations, many meteorological stations are equipped with data collection platforms made of such devices and especially de- signed to automatically record ground measurements such as the time ...
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Narrowing the field: cancer-specific promoters for mitochondrially-targeted p53-BH3 fusion gene therapy in ovarian cancer
... anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl-xL, Bcl-2, and Bcl-W [13, 14] — has been tested in several ovarian cancer cell lines and shows greatly enhanced apoptotic activity compared to wt p53 when fused to p53 (Fig. 2) (unpublished ...
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Political Bad Reputation
... the bad policy is played when the probability to face a good chal- lenger is high, meaning that when this probability is high it becomes too costly for the bad to mimic the good ...the bad incumbent ...
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Religion: Good or Bad?
... "Religion is a very complicated concept for many people, but religion can be seen in every corner of the world and its effects come in many different shapes and sizes. One word that[r] ...
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Preliminary Data Validation and Reconstruction of Temperature and Precipitation in Central Italy
... automatic weather stations, and investigations of high-low range limit, rate of change limit, or persistence analyses ...neighbouring weather stations, in order to detect errors in the data, even if they ...
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Bad governance of family firms: The adoption of good governance on the boards of directors in family firms
... While the general perspective in corporate governance research is exploring the relationship between governance mechanisms and firm outcomes, little is known about how and why family f[r] ...
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