System restoration from cascading failures is an integral part of the overall defense against catastrophic breakdown in networked critical infrastructures. From the outbreak of cascading failures to the system complete breakdown, actions can be taken to prevent failure propagation through the entire network. While most analysis efforts have been carried out before or after cascading failures, r...

Different from the direct contact in epidemics spread, overload failures propagate through hidden functional dependencies. Many studies focused on the critical conditions and catastrophic consequences of cascading failures. However, to understand the network vulnerability and mitigate the cascading overload failures, the knowledge of how the failures propagate in time and space is essential but...

We measured the effects of sound and visual dynamic elements on user experience of a serious game, with special interest in engagement and arousal. Engagement was measured through questionnaires and arousal through the SAM and electromyography (EMG). We adopted the EMG of the corrugator (frown muscle) and the zygomatic muscle (smile muscle) as indicators for arousal and valence. We hypothesized...

The design code Eurocode 7 relies on semi-probabilistic calculation procedures, through utilization of the soil parameters obtained by in situ and laboratory tests, or means transformation models. To reach a prescribed safety margin, inherent parameter variability is accounted for application partial factors to either directly resistance. However, considering several sources geotechnical uncert...

Abstract. A natural levee is a typical wedge-shaped deposit adjacent to river channel. Given its location and distinctive features, the can serve as key revealing depositional processes of coupled channel floodplain system preserved in rock record. Levee–floodplain topographic evolution also closely linked avulsion which cause catastrophic floods. Nonetheless, geometry aggradation pattern on ha...

The population dynamics of the capitellid polychaete Capitella aff. teleta were studied in Gamo Lagoon, located northeast Japan, for subsequent 2 years from 2016, when a series restoration works was conducted following 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. found to be widely distributed estuary side, where levee located, innermost part but more abundant part, which is rich organic matte...

Although hydraulic infrastructure such as levees remain important for flood risk management in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada), there is increasing emphasis on nonstructural measures, regulatory maps, to reduce exposure vulnerability, example, preventing people from building high hazard areas. One key concept related areas protected by that of “residual risk”, is, floods greater than desig...