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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts. It proved to be a crucible of experimentation in architectural, engineering and urban planning terms.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Anti-Patterns vs. Patterns: What Is the Difference?

BMC

Factories are a very code-oriented pattern, while pub/sub is more architectural in nature. Moral Hazard In philosophical contexts, Moral Hazard is the separation of individuals from the consequences of their decisions. Moral hazard: Link incentives to performance and long-term outcomes.

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NPU vs. GPU

Pure Storage

NPU vs GPU: Differences Architecturally speaking, NPUs are even more equipped for parallel processing than GPUs. GPUs have more of a general-purpose architecture than NPUs and can struggle to compete with NPUs in processing large-scale language models or edge computing applications. Related reading: What is a discrete GPU?

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NPU vs. GPU

Pure Storage

NPU vs GPU: Differences Architecturally speaking, NPUs are even more equipped for parallel processing than GPUs. GPUs have more of a general-purpose architecture than NPUs and can struggle to compete with NPUs in processing large-scale language models or edge computing applications. Related reading: What is a discrete GPU?