Modeling the resilience of startups in the COVID-19 pandemic using the system dynamics approach
September 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted startups, disrupting operations, consumer behavior, and market dynamics. Addressing these challenges necessitates an in-depth analysis of startups' vulnerabilities...
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An improved multi-velocity cellular automaton model that considers psychological impatience
September 2025
The cellular automaton (CA) model is an essential tool for studying pedestrian evacuation dynamics; moreover, improving simulations of actual evacuation environments and increasing the reliability of...
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Evaluation of the underground space safety resilience of Chinese urban agglomerations based on the “Pressure-State-Response”: A case study of underground rail transit in 26 cities
September 2025
Urban underground space disasters exhibit characteristics including complex causal mechanisms and high risk. They also present unpredictability and risk coupling amplification. Differences in underground...
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Evaluation of the cognitive performance of nuclear power plant operators using heart rate variability under hot-humid exposure
September 2025
•Comparison of humidity 60 %, 70 %, 80 %, and 90 % on cognitive performance.•VLF could be a reliable indicator of cognitive performance in hot-humid exposure.•HRV indicators have a significant impact...
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JMoE-FAP: A novel model for telecom network fraud victimization pattern analysis
September 2025
A comprehensive examination of the victimization process, coupled with the development of effective preventive strategies, represents the most promising approach for mitigating telecom network fraud....
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Selecting vehicle dispatching plan for typhoon emergency evacuation based on fault-tolerance analysis
September 2025
Unexpected scenarios often occur during typhoon response, which is likely to cause the failure of evacuation vehicle dispatching and other preparedness plans. To solve this problem, a vehicle dispatching...
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Quantitative resilience assessment on critical infrastructures – A systematic literature review of the last decade (2014-2024)
September 2025
The everyday functioning of infrastructures and the capacity of their owners to provide high-quality services are critical to the well-being of communities and societies. When disruptions endanger society's...
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Urban community exposure risk assessment for industrial asbestos cement roofing: Coupled GIS and computer vision-based approach
September 2025
Legacy asbestos in built-up urban areas poses a risk of exposure to the surrounding community through environmental exposure pathways. Better understanding the exposure risk of in-situ asbestos containing...
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Evolution of Human Factors Research in Aviation Safety: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of the Intellectual Structure
Available online 24 August 2025
Despite the multitude of research endeavors dedicated to Human Factors (HF) in aviation safety, a comprehensive review remains conspicuously scarce. Accordingly, this study presents the first in-depth...
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Leveraging digital twin for COVID-19 risk assessment in IoT-enhanced hospital pharmacies
Available online 16 August 2025
Over the past three years, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused widespread human casualties, economic disruptions, and public health challenges. It is vital to assess the risk...
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Machine learning hybrid dynamic best model selection algorithm for real-time fire prediction using IoT-enabled multi-sensor data in buildings
Available online 6 August 2025
Fire disasters in urban areas, including homes, offices, and industrial facilities, have increased significantly over the past decade, causing extensive damage and loss of life. Integrating intelligent...
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Exploring cascading failures in supply chain risk management: A systematic review, 2013-2024
Available online 5 August 2025
Supply chain risk management has become increasingly crucial due to the complexity and interconnectivity of modern supply chains. Among various risk factors, cascading failures have emerged as a significant...
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Human detection with smoke occlusion based on AI-generated images
Available online 5 August 2025
Detecting occupants trapped in buildings is challenging during fire accidents because of the dense, rapidly spreading smoke. To this end, this paper proposes a human detection method that accounts for...
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Influencing Factors and Mechanisms of Super High-Rise Buildings Safety Risks: A Fuzzy-DEMATEL-AISM Analysis
Available online 25 July 2025
•Developed multi-dimension theoretical framework for super high-rise building risks•Identified key influencing factors/pathways for super high-rise building structural risks•Introduced multi-factor,...
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Skeleton-based detection of anomalous personal protective equipment doffing behaviors among healthcare workers
Available online 23 July 2025
Identification of doffing behaviors of personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of healthcare workers. With the continuous emergence of new infectious diseases,...
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Coupled effects of ammonia addition proportions and pipeline diameter on self-ignition in high-pressure hydrogen leakage
Available online 21 July 2025
Hydrogen's intrinsic flammability and explosiveness pose serious safety hazards. This study systematically investigates the coupled effects of pipe diameter and ammonia addition proportions on self-ignition...
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Awareness analysis via Weibo social media data of major fire disasters
Available online 16 July 2025
Fire, a globally significant hazard, has a detrimental impact on lives, property, and socio-economic development. Public attention to fires is crucial for building fire safety under the current disaster-driven...
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A position-aware attention model based on double-level contrastive learning for hyper-relational knowledge graph representation in emergency management
Available online 11 July 2025
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,...
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National resilience: Development and validation of a new four-dimensional model for disaster preparedness assessment
Available online 9 July 2025
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...
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A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Framework for Community Isolation Center Site Selection to Enhance Public Health Resilience
Available online 5 July 2025
•Proposes a fuzzy MCDM framework for selecting isolation centers during outbreaks.•Integrates FAHP and FTOPSIS using trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to model uncertainty.•Applies the model to a real-world...
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Knowledge and practice of earthquake management among apartment dwellers: A case study of Jakarta City, Indonesia
Available online 4 July 2025
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...
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Clutaxis: An information-driven source search method balancing exploration and exploitation in turbulent environments
June 2025
Locating unknown emission sources in turbulent environments is a challenging yet crucial task, particularly in emergency response scenarios. Existing studies have developed information-theoretic approaches...
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Cost-aware strategies for enhancing energy resilience in microgrids via stationary and mobile resources
June 2025
The primary goal of this research study is to enhance energy resilience with a focus on cost efficiency. To achieve this objective, two key objectives have been identified: (1) reducing unserved loads,...
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Optimization of vehicle routing problems combining the demand urgency and road damage for multiple disasters
June 2025
•The multiple disasters are divided into three different scenarios.•The model takes into account both the demand urgency and road damage.•The demand urgency are quantified through the analysis of five...
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Optimizing firefighting resilience in airports through genetic algorithms and decision-making frameworks
June 2025
Aviation transport infrastructure is key to international commerce and cultural exchange, with any emergency potentially causing major impacts on contemporary society. With advancements in technology...
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