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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

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Perhaps technological innovation will one day bring this issue under control, but there is no sign of this at present. This may be more of a problem for the arts than for the sciences, in which the fruits of research are supposed to benefit all of us, but at present it is hard to tell. Scepticism induces me to prefer the latter.

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Covid-19 and the Disaster Research Gold Rush

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So is the response by academic authors. Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day. I admit that this is equally true of the present blog, but my criticism is not aimed at those who express an opinion. As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

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In 2020, some confusion arises from the fact that much of the planning refers to influenza, whereas the SARS category of diseases is not strictly a 'flu virus, but most of the planning principles are exactly the same, so this is mainly a labelling issue.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

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The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. With thanks to Mr Tony Moore for his observations and guidance.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

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There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning. Secondly, we need to make emergency planning more rigorous and standardise it on the basis of well-chosen benchmarks. In addition the city's emergency plan has been comprehensively revised.

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Mon apprentissage - Il mio tirocinio - My apprenticeship - Meine Lehre

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The armoury includes present- and past-tense subjunctives, reflexives, engineering the position of clauses and sub-clauses vis-a-vis the stem, choosing longer, more abstruse words rather than shorter, simpler ones, always with the proviso that they convey elegance. I have used it to shoot down both published and aspiring authors.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

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Hence, these are some good criteria for presenting Covid-19 research to a potential readership. Will the paper add anything to the debate on Covid-19, or our knowledge of the disaster, that is not already known and present in some of the many other articles that are available? What use is it then?