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Daniel O. Aikhuele and Shahryar Sorooshian
Railway infrastructure is generally classified as either fixed or movable infrastructure assets. Failure in any of the assets could lead to the complete shutdown and disruption of the entire system, economic loss, inconvenience to passengers and the trai...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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David Maloney, Sung-Chul Hong and Barin Nag
Economic disruptions can alter the likelihood of defaults on peer-to-peer loans, causing those impacted to adjust. The option to declare economic hardship and temporarily reduce the payment burden can provide some relief. When this occurs, the borrower?s...
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Katarzyna Golan, Izabela Kot, Katarzyna Kmiec and Edyta Górska-Drabik
Insect pests have major effects on agricultural production and food supply. Pest control in conventional crop management in orchards is mainly based on agrochemicals, which entails economic, health and environmental costs. Other approaches, such as biolo...
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James Geisbush and Samuel T. Ariaratnam
The consequences of failures from large-diameter water pipelines can be severe. Results can include significant property damage, adjacent damage to infrastructure such as roads and bridges resulting in transportation delays or shutdowns, adjacent structu...
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Lingpeng Meng, Xudong Wang, Jie Jin and Chuanfeng Han
In the context of economic globalization and the development of information networks, container liner transportation plays a crucial role in international trade. However, the inherent inflexibility of fixed schedules in liner operations poses challenges ...
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Nurul Iman Abdul Jalil, Soon Aun Tan, Nur Shakila Ibharim, Anisah Zainab Musa, Siew Hui Ang and Wustari L. Mangundjaya
The emergence of coronavirus disease has impacted human lives, one of which is economic disruption. Many Malaysian organisations have devised various crisis-response techniques, such as downsizing, laying off, retrenching, and combining. As a result, the...
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Lavinia Javier Cueto, April Faith Deleon Frisnedi, Reynaldo Baculio Collera, Kenneth Ian Talosig Batac and Casper Boongaling Agaton
The spike in COVID-19 cases all over the world poses a massive impact on various sectors of society. The global economy is no exception, for it has been severely affected by the unprecedented public health crisis leading businesspeople to shutdown commer...
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Matheus Martins de Sousa, Osvaldo Moura Rezende, Ana Caroline Pitzer Jacob, Luiza Batista de França Ribeiro, Paula Morais Canedo de Magalhães, Gladys Maquera and Marcelo Gomes Miguez
Risk can be defined as the relationship between the likelihood of a hazard causing a potential disaster and its consequences. This study aims to assess the likelihood that a new industrial region, located in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), will be flood...
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Siama Begum, Rachel S. Fisher, Emma J. S. Ferranti and Andrew D. Quinn
The impacts of the changing climate have caused extensive disruption to the road network in the United Kingdom in recent years. Roads are vital for economic growth and social wellbeing, and a disruption to the network can have disastrous consequences. Si...
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