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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Fourthly, relationships of trust and participation need to be built between the authorities and the general public. On the approach road a steel girder viaduct had been folded up and swept kilometres downstream by the violence of the water.

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SIA New Member Profile: Quanergy

Security Industry Association

Gerald Becker : Quanergy, a publicly traded company (NYSE: QNGY and QNGY.WS), was founded in 2012 with the ambition to solve difficult problems in various markets with 3D technology. Tell us the story of your company. Gerald Becker, vice president of market development and alliances at Quanergy.

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Ciudad Juárez Blaze That Killed 39 ‘Should Not Have Happened,’ Fire Safety Expert Says

National Fire Protection Association

In a PBS News Hour article published two days after the incident, witnesses alleged guards at the facility failed to release male detainees after the fire broke out, and Mexican authorities have said they are investigating eight employees for potential criminal charges.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. I am amazed at how many authors submit work and do not even seem to have spent those vital two minutes putting the basic key words into Google Scholar.

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What Makes An Award-Winning Partner Program?

Pure Storage

by Pure Storage Blog This blog was co-authored by Wendy Stusrud and Megan Minkiewicz What’s a great way to know your partner program is competitive and robust? In 2012, the Pure Partner Program was launched and has been engaging a vast and hearty network of Resellers around the world ever since. When CRN awards it a 5-star rating !

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Exploring the Differences: Multi-dimensional Modeling vs Relational Modeling in Analytical Systems

Advancing Analytics

When pushed to understand why 90% of solutions require a database, the author cited Referential Integrity. Ralph Kimball is a well-known data warehousing expert and author. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 5.12 (2012): 1751-1762. Communications of the ACM 55.11 (2012): 86-92. Abadi, Daniel J., and David J.

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Powering Resilience with Critical Event Management

everbridge

According to the IMF’s World Uncertainty Index , “…global uncertainty has increased significantly since 2012. You need to address this from the top management so that you have the help of this authority to prioritise [resilience].”. – Uncertainty is the New Normal. Uncertainty impacts business confidence.