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Optimizing urban infrastructure resilience: Analyzing cascading failures and critical node dependencies through multilayer network models

As urbanization and industrialization progress, urban infrastructure systems grow increasingly complex, heightening their vulnerability to cascading failures from natural disasters and human-induced...

Assessing resilience potentials in management of occupational safety and health in hospitals: Development and validation of a tool

•A tool based on the Resilience Assessment Grid (RAG) was designed and validated.•A pilot test was conducted with 404 healthcare professionals across three public hospitals.•The tailored RAG proved...

CO-Mode with AV-CRM: A novel paradigm towards human–machine collaboration in intelligent vehicle safety

With the continuous advancement in vehicle intelligence, enhancing safety has emerged as a key priority in intelligent vehicle research and development. Intelligent vehicles are currently limited in...

High-performance fire detection framework based on feature enhancement and multimodal fusion

Fire detection technology has become increasingly critical in the context of rising global fire threats and extreme weather conditions. Traditional methods rely on single-modal sensors and conventional...

Machine learning for occupational accident analysis: Applications, challenges, and future directions

Machine learning (ML) drives progress in occupational accident prevention across diverse sectors. However, significant challenges persist in aligning these tools with practical safety needs, including...

Guidance for estimating the blast load from vapour cloud explosions in traffic environments using the multi-energy method

The accidental release of a flammable gas on a road can result in a vapour cloud explosion (VCE). Such VCEs generate a blast wave that propagates away from the explosion, potentially damaging nearby...

Knowledge and practice of earthquake management among apartment dwellers: A case study of Jakarta City, Indonesia

Urban city apartments and flat dwellers face increasing threats from earthquakes, and the current understanding and implementation of earthquake risk reduction techniques in high-rise housing communities...

National resilience: Development and validation of a new four-dimensional model for disaster preparedness assessment

The studies described here aim to develop and empirically validate a more accurate and reliable model for assessing national resilience, emphasizing its importance for disaster risk reduction and disaster...

A position-aware attention model based on double-level contrastive learning for hyper-relational knowledge graph representation in emergency management

Effective emergency management relies on timely risk identification and decision-making, wherein natural language processing plays a vital role. Hyper-relational knowledge graph (HKG) representation,...

Improving fire resistance of data monitoring equipment in wildland and wildland-urban interface fires

The 2019–2020 Black Summer fire season highlighted the vulnerability of water monitoring sites, causing damage, data loss, and negatively affecting water management during massive wildfires. It becomes...

A deep learning and edge computing integrated approach for fall behavior detection in buildings

This study proposes a model integrating YOLOv11 and STGCN for accurate and real-time detection of fall behaviors within buildings. A specialized video dataset comprising fall behaviors performed by...

A resilience evolution model of urban lifeline systems during operation based on performance state transitions

To better understand the resilience evolution dynamics of urban lifeline systems over extended operational periods, this study introduces a model inspired by the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR)...

Urban road collapse risk assessment based on the extended xLSTM Network

Rapid urbanization has substantially increased the complexity of urban underground spaces. This complexity leads to frequent road collapse incidents that pose significant threats to the safety and property...

The value of structured occupational safety data and cluster analysis: A case study from the Italian National Surveillance System

The collection and analysis of accident data are crucial steps towards the application of effective preventive measures in the occupational safety context. The analysis of work-related accidents/injuries...

Studying the dynamics of crowd panic propagation during emergency evacuation

•Patterns of panic propagation in emergency evacuation were studied.•The weight of panic influence factors was quantified by statistical means.•System dynamics model and evacuation simulation for panic...

Systematic literature review of Ergonomic evaluation methods in the mining sector (2015-2024)

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the mining sector are frequently associated with exposure to ergonomic risk factors, leading to decreased productivity and increased absenteeism. This study presents...

TriFireNet: A multi-stage framework for robust real-time fire and smoke detection

This study presents TriFireNet, a modular framework designed to address the challenges of smoke and fire detection in complex and dynamic environments. TriFireNet efficiently captures multiscale variability,...

Community vulnerability to cyclones: An empirical evidence from rural India to improve resilience

India experiences various natural disasters each year, leaving communities with significant consequences. The eastern coast, particularly Odisha, is the most cyclone-prone region globally. Rural and...

Development of a framework for safety and resilience in overhead power cables: Use of a fuzzy inference system for risk and reliability analysis

Ensuring the safety, resilience, and reliability of overhead low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power cables in aging infrastructure is vital for maintaining essential services and mitigating...

Study on emergency evacuation guidance in the subway station hall

In recent years, with continued urbanization, subway stations with complex structures have developed rapidly, posing serious challenges to daily crowd management and emergency evacuation safety. A social...

Resilience assessment of public health system at multi-levels: An emergency management capacity quantification model for pandemic response

Facing the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), countries and regions have implemented different policies and non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) according to their circumstances....

Extending the STPA to model the control structure with Finite State Machine

Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) are becoming increasingly complex, integrating physical entities with diverse computing and communication resources, multiple processors, networks, and devices. One example...

An analysis of relationships between occupational injury, job satisfaction and turnover intention among stone, sand, and gravel mine workers

Stone, sand, and gravel mining accounts for 80 % of all mining operations. Maintaining a skilled labor force is essential for this large and growing mining sector. Occupational injuries negatively impact...

Association analysis of causative factors of fall from height accidents

Working at height is widespread across various industries, with frequent and hazardous falls occurring regularly. Such tasks are often linked to multifactorial issues, where the interplay of diverse...

Facility service balance problem with information feedback mechanism in the virtual–real interaction network

Considering the information interaction in the virtual–real network, this paper introduces a novel three-layer model that explores the integrated influence between virtual and real networks. Existing...

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