AIGC challenges and opportunities related to public safety: A case study of ChatGPT
December 2023
Artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) is a production method based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology that finds rules through data and automatically generates content. In contrast...
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Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends
September 2020
2019/20 Australia's bushfire season (Black Summer fires) occurred during a period of record breaking temperatures and extremely low rainfall. To understand the impact of these climatic values we conducted...
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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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Virtual and augmented reality technologies for emergency management in the built environments: A state-of-the-art review
March 2021
With the rapid technological advancements in recent decades, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have been increasingly adopted to address various challenges in emergency management...
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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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Improving sentiment analysis accuracy with emoji embedding
December 2021
Due to the diversity and variability of Chinese syntax and semantics, accurately identifying and distinguishing individual emotions from online texts is challenging. To overcome this limitation, we...
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Safety climate: Current status of the research and future prospects
December 2020
In order to study the current situation and prospects of an improved safety climate, this paper provides an extensive literature review and analysis of the concept of safety climate. Following that,...
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Understanding future changes to fires in southern Europe and their impacts on the wildland-urban interface
March 2021
Southern Europe is a highly fire-prone region where extreme fires have often disastrous consequences on both structures and people. Human activities and fire weather conditions favouring ignitions and...
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Review of analyses on crowd-gathering risk and its evaluation methods
March 2023
Overcrowding and stampedes may occur in public places with the gathering of crowds. To mitigate and prevent risk, the accident mechanism and methods for monitoring and evaluating crowd-gathering risk...
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E-voting system using cloud-based hybrid blockchain technology
March 2024
With the invention of Internet-enabled devices, cloud and blockchain-based technologies, an online voting system can smoothly carry out election processes. During pandemic situations, citizens tend...
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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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Effect of economic policies on the stock and bond market under the impact of COVID-19
March 2022
The global epidemic of COVID-19 has made a huge impact on global health and financial markets. And the spread of the virus has stalled economic development in many parts of the world. As stocks and...
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Data-driven evacuation and rescue traffic optimization with rescue contraflow control
March 2024
In response to local sudden disasters, e.g., high-rise office or residential building fire disasters, road occupation can cause conflicts, and traffic directions may be opposite between evacuation vehicles...
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Multi-hazard disaster scenario method and emergency management for urban resilience by integrating experiment–simulation–field data
June 2021
Due to the frequent occurrence of multi-hazard disasters worldwide in recent years, effective multi-hazard scenario analysis is imperative for disaster rescue and emergency management. The response...
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Resilience assessment model for urban public transportation systems based on structure and function
December 2023
Urbanization and the increasing frequency of extreme climates affect the sustainability of urban public transportation systems, and improving resilience is one of the primary directions for sustainable...
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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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Secure and resilient improved image steganography using hybrid fuzzy neural network with fuzzy logic
March 2024
The exponential growth in communication networks, data technology, advanced libraries, and mainly World Wide Web services has played a pivotal role in facilitating the retrieval of various types of...
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Offshore system safety and operational challenges in harsh Arctic operations
June 2022
Offshore oil and gas drilling operations are going to remote and harsh arctic environments with demands for heightened safety and resilience of operational facilities. The remote and harsh environment...
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Exploring the correlation between temperature and crime: A case-crossover study of eight cities in America
March 2024
Recent years have seen increasing academic interest in exploring the correlation between temperature and crime. However, it is uncertain whether similar long-term trends or seasonality (rather than...
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The landscape of safety management systems research: A scientometric analysis
September 2022
Safety management systems (SMSs) are widely applied across many industrial sectors, and a large body of literature has been published addressing their design, implementation, effectiveness, and associated...
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Quantification of disaster resilience in civil engineering: A review
September 2020
Resistance to unexpected disasters and rapid post-disaster recovery (i.e., disaster resilience) of cities are extremely necessary owing to the concentrated risk of urbanization. Resilience quantification...
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Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime incidents number in different cities
December 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic is strongly affecting many aspects of human life and society around the world. To investigate whether this pandemic also influences crime, the differences in crime incidents numbers...
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Unsupervised intrusion detection system for in-vehicle communication networks
June 2024
In-vehicle communication has been optimized day to day to keep updated of the technologies. Control area network (CAN) is used as a standard communication method because of its efficient and reliable...
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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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Discussing the development of domestic and foreign fire protection technical regulation and fire protection technical standard systems
March 2023
This paper reviews the composition, development, and operation mechanism of domestic and foreign fire protection technical regulations and standards. Considering the development and problems of China's...
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