Browsing by Author "Mostafavi, Ali"
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Dargin, Jennifer Sara (2022-04-22)Natural disasters place tremendous stress on critical infrastructure systems by testing their service reliability under extreme condition. Prolonged service disruptions can pose serious threats to the physical, emotional, ...
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Nazarnia, Hadi; Mostafavi, Ali; Ganapati, Nazife E.; Pradhananga, Nipesh; Khanal, Rewat (ICE Publishing, 2016-06)Despite the emerging literature on resilient infrastructure systems, the number of studies related to developing communities is rather limited. The majority of the existing studies focus mainly on resilience of infrastructure ...
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Truong, JennyNatural disasters, such as earthquake, flood, hurricane and tornado, cause disruptions and damages in different infrastructure systems (e.g., water, electricity, road), and thus, greatly affect the quality of life. Despite ...
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Rasoulkhani, Kambiz (2019-11-13)Urban water infrastructure systems are exposed to the impacts of various chronic and acute stressors such as climate change, population growth/decline, aging infrastructure, and extreme events (e.g., natural disasters). ...
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Lee, Cheng-Chun (2021-03-23)Assessing drainage conditions at the neighborhood level can help public works agencies to develop maintenance plans and mitigation strategies to guard against pluvial floods. Drainage condition assessments can also inform ...
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Qureshi, Rameez Riyaz (2022-07-25)Disasters impact the delivery of infrastructure services and disrupt the normal functioning of communities. A primary goal of recovery is to restore patterns of activity to pre-disaster levels in the shortest time possible ...
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Qureshi, Rameez Riyaz (2020-04-23)Infrastructure interdependencies have significant impacts on the recovery of community sectors in the post-disaster period. The focus of this research is to identify critical community sectors and to understand how the ...
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Gao, Lei (2018-04-19)In the wake of a polarizing election, social media is laden with hateful content. Context accompanying a hate speech text is useful for identifying hate speech, which however has been largely overlooked in existing datasets ...
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Datta, Songjukta (2018-11-29)Timely crowd evacuation in life-threatening situations such as fire emergency or terrorist attack is a significant concern for authorities and first responders. An individual’s fate in this kind of situation is highly ...
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Esparza, Miguel Tobias (2022-08-02)Natural hazards, such as flooding and hurricanes, wildfires, pose a threat to the well-being of communities by disrupting the infrastructure services people use in their day-to-day lives. To mitigate these impacts, Big ...
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Coleman, Natalie (2019-05-02)Natural disasters place tremendous pressure on critical infrastructure systems by testing their service reliability under extreme conditions. System failures are inevitable during harsh events, and prolonged disruptions ...
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Olarte, Walter E. (2021-04-14)Project execution cost and safety have been traditionally approached as independent areas of study. The argument for a separate treatment is that the most effective way to improve safety is to add safety barriers, resulting ...
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Serrano Diaz, Juan Sebastian (2021-08-02)The offshore oil and gas industry is a highly fragmented industry where contractors execute most everyday activities in all its phases. These contractors comprise around 80% of the personnel performing project activities ...
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Abuhamdia, Rana Zakaria Ahmad (2018-11-26)Social resilience after disasters is characterized by two key dimensions, reducing impacts and enhancing recovery. In that context, reducing the number of household that are either forced or choose to relocate due to damage ...
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Ridha, Tamarah Adnan (2023-07-25)Climate change poses significant challenges to communities and infrastructure, particularly in coastal areas. Rising sea levels and increased storm intensity and frequency result in submergence, flooding, and coastal ...
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Fan, Chao (2020-11-11)Many cities around the world are exposed to extreme flooding events. As a result of rapid population growth and urbanization, cities are also likely to become more vulnerable in the future and subsequently, more disruptions ...
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Esmalian, Amir (2022-04-19)Natural hazards, such as flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, pose a threat to the well-being of communities by disrupting the infrastructure services people use in their day-to-day lives. The impacts of infrastructure service ...
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Li, Qingchun (2021-07-22)The objective of this study is to enhance the fundamental understanding of the dynamics of coupled human-infrastructure networks for urban resilience. Natural hazards are natural phenomenon, while the consequent disasters ...
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Oti, Isaac Chigozie (2018-05-29)Various types of essential data are collected at different phases of the infrastructure life cycle. For major infrastructure assets, these data are commonly available and tend to be of high quality. At the local level ...