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Zhen-Zhen Nong, Qing Wang, He-Ying Hou, Peng-Ming Jiang and Ai-Zhao Zhou
Calcareous sand, a type of marine sediment formed from the skeletal remains of marine life, exhibits unique characteristics such as high porosity and fragility due to its biological origin. Particle breakage is a key attribute of calcareous sand. Given t...
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Irina Makarova, Polina Buyvol, Eduard Mukhametdinov and Aleksey Boyko
The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation is of strategic importance for the country. Considering the fragility of Arctic ecosystems, special attention needs to be paid to the sustainable development of transport and related infrastructure within the fra...
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Márton Pál and Gáspár Albert
Geodiversity is the variety of natural elements that are excluded from biodiversity, such as: geological, geomorphological, and soil features including their properties, systems, and relationships. Geodiversity assessment measures these features, emphasi...
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Jie Song, Raffaele De Risi and Katsuichiro Goda
Inundation depth is commonly used as an intensity measure in tsunami fragility analysis. However, inundation depth cannot be taken as the sole representation of tsunami impact on structures, especially when structural damage is caused by hydrodynamic and...
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Antti Talvitie
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The paper presents a nonconforming view about corruption and an approach to its ?cure?. It seeks to explain the situation that despite pervasive corruption and weak institutions, emerging economies in Asia attracted foreign investment and achieved a rema...
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Lau, D.T.,Vishnukanthan, K.,Waller, C.L.,Sivathayalan, S.
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The current practice of detailed seismic risk assessment cannot be easily applied to all the bridges in a large transportation networks due to limited resources. This paper presents a new approach for seismic risk assessment of large bridge inventories i...
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