Blockchain for public safety: A survey of techniques and applications
December 2023
As an emerging technology, blockchain provides a range of advantages, such as decentralized and transparent data storage, secure access control, and enhanced data traceability. However, it is rarely...
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Artificial intelligence empowering research on loneliness, depression and anxiety — Using Covid-19 as an opportunity
December 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on public mental health, leading to a surge in loneliness, depression, and anxiety. And these public psychological issues increasingly become a factor...
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Re-emergence of Ebola virus disease in Uganda: Should Southeast Asia countries be worried?
September 2023
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) (Sudan virus) was first reported in the Republic of Uganda on September 20, 2022. As of November 17, 2022, 151 confirmed cases have been reported, including...
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A study on predicting crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events
September 2023
Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events. Therefore, clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination...
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Data-driven decision-making model for determining the number of volunteers required in typhoon disasters
September 2023
Volunteer teams provide valuable support after large-scale disasters. However, excessive volunteer participation poses challenges for formal operations. Therefore, an appropriate decision-making method...
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Readiness of financial resilience in start-ups
September 2023
Financial resilience refers to a start-up's capacity to anticipate, plan for, respond to, and adapt to gradual change and abrupt unforeseen shocks to survive and thrive by enacting appropriate economic...
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Research on the security of China's oil resources supply based on the objective weight method
September 2023
With the rapid development of China's economy, external dependence on petroleum resources continues to increase, and their security has become an important part of national security. To evaluate the...
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An MCDM approach to assessing influential factors on healthcare providers’ safe performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Probing into demographic variables
September 2023
This study assessed the influence of occupational stress, individual resilience, and organizational resilience on the safety performance of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demographic...
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A dynamic task assignment model for aviation emergency rescue based on multi-agent reinforcement learning
September 2023
China's natural disaster situation presents a complex and severe scenario, resulting in substantial human and material losses as a result of large-scale emergencies. Recognizing the significance of...
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Early smoke and flame detection based on transformer
September 2023
Fire-detection technology plays a critical role in ensuring public safety and facilitating the development of smart cities. Early fire detection is imperative to mitigate potential hazards and minimize...
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Study on the influencing factors of piecewise multi-strain crossover epidemic spread under data contamination
September 2023
The ongoing impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on work and daily life persists as we transition from emergency to normal circumstances. The continuous mutation of viral strains...
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Eye movement evidence in investigative identification based on experiments
September 2023
Investigative identification is a routine criminal investigative procedure, the results of which can be used as evidence in litigation. However, some suspects often deny their involvement in the case,...
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Resilience in action: The bottom up! architecture festival in Turin (Italy)
June 2023
This article describes the practice of co-evolutionary and transformative resilience through a case study conducted in Turin (Italy). According to a broad definition, resilience includes performing...
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Emergency evacuation in a supermarket during a terrorist attack: towards a possible modelling of the influence of affordances on the evacuation behavior of agents in a complex virtual environment
June 2023
During a terrorist attack on a supermarket, the use of emergency exits is essential for effective evacuation and saving lives. However, people tend to ignore emergency situations. This behavior can...
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Test the effectiveness of building safety guidance signs in a T-junction corridor based on eye movement data
June 2023
Evacuation signs are a key factor in the effectiveness of occupants’ urgent escape from buildings. Different sign features may have disparate impacts on individual and crowd behavior. This study aims...
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Study on smoke propagation in tunnel construction of a hydropower station: A full-scale fire experiment
June 2023
In this study, full-scale fire experiments were conducted in a hydropower station to investigate smoke propagation during tunnel construction. The flame height, smoke temperature and stratification,...
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Quantitative scenario construction of typical disasters driven by ontology data
June 2023
This study introduces a quantitative scenario-building method for analyzing emergency scenarios based on ontological methods and the EOC (element-object-consequence) model. The ontological structure...
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Hazard prediction of coal and gas outburst based on the Hamming distance artificial intelligence algorithm (HDAIA)
June 2023
Currently, coal mining faces the uncertainty of the risk of coal and gas outbursts and inaccurate prediction results. Owing to this, an artificial immune algorithm (AIA) was developed for coal and gas...
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The role of emergency incident type in identifying first responders’ health exposure risks
June 2023
Fire-based emergency management service (EMS) personnel are dispatched to various incidents daily, many of which have unique occupational risks. To fully understand the variability of incident types...
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Development in comprehensive CFD simulation of fire and explosion
June 2023
In this study, an outline of developments is presented in comprehensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of fire and explosion with respect to safety science. Fires can be divided into...
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How to prevent and control community risks?Identifying community burglary risk hotspots based on time-space characteristics
June 2023
Community security and risk management is essential for urban governance. To identify community risks more accurately, the space-time characteristics of community burglary cases in a community located...
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Detection approach for unusable shared bikes enabled by reinforcement learning and PageRank algorithm
June 2023
Existing research models can neither indicate the availability of shared bikes nor detect unusable ones owing to a lack of information on bike maintenance and failure. To improve awareness regarding...
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The prediction of exit choice using cumulative prospect value
March 2023
Exit choice is essential for pedestrian safety and evacuation efficiency during the context of an emergency. Cumulative prospect theory is a widespread realistic decision-making theory that can transform...
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Study on single-group dynamics in evacuation considering pre-defined and undeclared leadership
March 2023
Grouping is a common phenomenon that occurs everywhere. The leader-follower relationship inside groups has often been qualitatively characterized in previous models using simple heuristics. However,...
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Notions of resilience and qualitative evaluation of tsunami resiliency using the theory of springs
March 2023
•The article revisits the resilience, vulnerability, and build back better.•Resiliency is a parameter in the discourse on a disaster that is mostly measurable.•Onsite capacity, instantaneous survivability,...
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