INTEGRATING HEC-RAS, GIS, AND LISREL FOR ASSESSING AND ENHANCING URBAN BUILDING RESILIENCE AGAINST FLOOD THREATS: COMPREHENSIVE MODEL AND ANALYSIS

Integrating HEC-RAS, GIS, and LISREL for assessing and enhancing urban building resilience against flood threats: Comprehensive model and analysis

Floods pose significant threats to urban areas, resulting in substantial human and financial losses annually.The vulnerability of key urban centers to these risks diminishes their efficiency, leading to public dissatisfaction and service deficiencies.Recognizing and enhancing the resilience of essential buildings becomes crucial in mitigating these

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Fetal Calf Serum Exerts an Inhibitory Effect on Replication of Duck Hepatitis A Virus Genotype 1 in Duck Embryo Fibroblast Cells

Among the causative agents of duck viral hepatitis, duck hepatitis A virus genotype Rifle Slips 1 (DHAV-1) is the most common virus reported in most outbreaks worldwide.How to propagate DHAV-1 in cell cultures efficiently remains a problem to be explored.Here, we aimed to test the effect of serum type on DHAV-1 replication in duck embryo fibroblast

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Reconsidering the use of rankings in the valuation of health states: a model for estimating cardinal values from ordinal data

Abstract Background In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as Apron precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have not been used in deriving cardinal valuations.This study reconsiders the role of ordinal ranks in valuing health an

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Is point-of-care ultrasound disruptive innovation? Formulating why POCUS is different from conventional comprehensive ultrasound

Abstract Background Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is spreading throughout Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Pre-hospital Care.However, there is an underlying inherited conflict with the established specialties performing comprehensive examinations.It has been stated that PoCUS is disruptive innovation.If this is true the definition might ope

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