Types of natural disasters and their occurrence

Major Natural Disasters in China, 1985–2014: Occurrence and Damages

This study aimed to describe the characteristics of natural disasters and associated losses from 1985 to 2014. The Mann-Kendall method was used to detect any long-term trends and abrupt changes. Hotspot analysis was conducted to detect the spatial clusters of disasters. We found an increasing trend in the occurrence of integrated natural disasters (tau = 0.594, p < 0.001), particularly for floo...

an investigation into elt teachers’ sense of self-efficacy in teaching reading comprehension and their personality types

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...

Role Types and their Dependencies as Components of Natural Types

This paper presents a canonical extension of object-oriented development for roles and context-dependent behavior. We syntactically distinguish between classes as natural types and roles as role types. Thereby a class contains roles and their dependencies. The visibility and the access to an object depend on its current role. We develop powerful facilities to organize the dependencies of roles:...

poverty and natural disasters

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Natural Disasters