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Qing Li, Yu Li, Lingyun Zhao, Zhixiong Zhang, Yu Wang and Meihong Ma
Accurately assessing the risk of flash floods is a fundamental prerequisite for defending against flash flood disasters. The existing methods for assessing flash flood risk are constrained by unclear key factors and challenges in elucidating disaster mec...
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Zihan Gui, Heshuai Qi, Faliang Gui, Baoxian Zheng, Shiwu Wang and Hua Bai
Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is an important regional water resource and a landmark ecosystem. In recent years, it has experienced a period of prolonged drought. Using appropriate drought indices to describe the drought characterist...
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Yan He, Yanxia Zhao, Yihong Duan, Xiaokang Hu and Jiayi Fang
Compound drought and hot events can lead to detrimental impacts on crop yield with grave implications for global and regional food security. Hence, an understanding of how such events will change under unabated global warming is helpful to avoid associat...
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Marco Guerrieri, Giuseppe Parla, Masoud Khanmohamadi and Larysa Neduzha
Asphalt pavements are subject to regular inspection and maintenance activities over time. Many techniques have been suggested to evaluate pavement surface conditions, but most of these are either labour-intensive tasks or require costly instruments. This...
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Sadaf Montazeri, Zhen Lei and Nicole Odo
The construction industry, despite its anticipated significant growth, has struggled with low productivity over the past two decades. Design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA), a methodology with a history of success in other industries, presents a pr...
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