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Special Issue "Cascading Disaster Modelling and Prevention"
(2020)International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthDear Colleagues, Cascading disasters, which follow from an initial trigger to a range of disaster impacts, can contribute a significant part of the loss caused by any natural hazard event, and become as catastrophic as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, in the Sichuan Province of China, provides another example. This disaster led to over 69,000 deaths, 18,000 missing people, and 374,000 ...Journal Issue -
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Nanofiltration Membranes: Recent Advances and Environmental Applications
(2022)Nanofiltration Membranes: Recent Advances and Environmental ApplicationsJournal Issue -
The Architectural Model as Tool, Medium and Agent of Change
(2020)Architectural Theory ReviewJournal Issue -
Writing History in the Anthropocene
(2020)Geschichte und GesellschaftSince the turn of the new millennium, earth scientists from various disciplines have invited their colleagues, other scientists and humanists, politicians, NGOs, as well as the public at large, to consider consigning the contemporary geological epoch of the Holocene to the past, by superimposing a new time interval, the Anthropocene. When discussing this new geological epoch, scholars highlight that past and present societal actions in ...Journal Issue -
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on Segment Anything for Videos and Beyond
(2023)IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video TechnologyJournal Issue -
The Cornice
(2021)gta PapersSince the rise of avantgarde modernism, the cornice has been existing undercover. Dismissed by Le Corbusier but celebrated by Erich Mendelsohn in the form of architectural rally stripes, it was grandly rehabilitated in postmodernism. In contemporary architecture it leads a secret life between shadow gap and gutter, often reduced to the practical aspect of keeping water off the façade. Yet historically, the cornice has been the crowning ...Journal Issue -
Property-controlled forming processes
(2022)Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringJournal Issue