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Future Riverine Flood Impacts for NUTS3 regions in Europe: GLOFRIS input to DIFI
No full text<p>This dataset presents results of current and future riverine flood impact data for NUTS3 regions in Europe. The dataset has been developed following the methodology presented in Tiggeloven et al. (2020) and Mortensen et al. (In Review).</p><p>This dataset can be used to as direct input for the DIFI model as described in Tesselaar et al. (2023).</p><p>References:</p><p>Mortensen, E., Tiggeloven, T., Haer, T., van Bemmel, B., Bouwman, A., Ligtvoet, W., & Ward, P.J.: The potential for various riverine flood DRR measures at the global scale. <i>Journal of Coastal and Riverine Flood Risk</i>, In Review.</p><p>Tesselaar, M., Botzen, W.J.W., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Tiggeloven, T. (2023). Flood insurance is a driver of population growth in European floodplains. <i>Nature Communications (provisionally accepted)</i></p><p>Tiggeloven, T., De Moel, H., Winsemius, H. C., Eilander, D., Erkens, G., Gebremedhin, E., ... & Ward, P. J. (2020). Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures. <i>Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences</i>, <i>20</i>(4), 1025-1044.</p>
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Money piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Author
No full textMoney piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, about the increased availability of credit for Maine\u27s small businesses
Timothy Meyer serves as a contributing author for UN report
No full textAssistant Professor Timothy Meyer served as a contributing author for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization\u27s report titled Networks for Prosperity: Connecting Development Knowledge Beyond 2015. The document, which was released during November, analyzes the nexus between the global connectedness of a country and its economic success, sustainability and government effectiveness. Meyer was one of only approximately 20 academic and practical experts from around the world selected to serve as a contributor after a global call for proposals.
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Selected Contributions of Sister Mary Berenice Beck, O.S.F. to Nursing in the United States, 1923-1956
No full textby Sister M. Timothy Costello.Typescript.Thesis (M.S.N.)--Catholic University of America.Bibliography: leaves 44-47.Also available in microfilm
Sea Change To Nature-based Solutions: A Coastal Flood Risk Perspective
Full text linkCoastal floods are one of the deadliest and costliest of natural hazards, triggering or contributing to economic disruption, displacement, (mental) health implications, environmental disasters, poverty traps, and geomorphic change. In the coming century, coastal communities are projected to face increases in coastal flood risk. To prevent this increase in coastal flood risk, or even reduce risk below today’s levels, adaptation strategies are necessary. To make informed decisions on what measures to take, it is important to better understand the effectiveness of such coastal flood risk adaptation strategies, preferably beyond just monetary terms. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis is to disentangle drivers of coastal flood risk and assess costs and benefits of adaptation strategies. By doing so, the thesis improves upon conventional flood risk assessments by taking steps into the direction of integrated and holistic assessments that include Nature-based Solutions and valuing of adaptation beyond monetary terms. This thesis uses artificial intelligence in the form of deep learning to construct a model to predict storm surges (which may lead to coastal flooding) at the global scale. Next to this, a risk model has been constructed to assess the effectiveness of adaptation strategies (based on structural measures, Nature-based Solutions, or a combination which is called “hybrid” measures). We assess risk by using projections of sea-level rise, socioeconomic change, subsidence, foreshore vegetation and restoration potential. Next to this we use vulnerability data, like poverty dynamics, to assess effectiveness of adaptation measures beyond monetary values. The results show that EAD increases by a factor of 150 between 2010 and 2080, if no adaptation were to take place, and that 15 countries account for approximately 90% of this increase. Moreover, sea-level rise contributed the most to the increase in coastal flood risk, but socioeconomic change and subsidence also play an important role at the regional scale. Furthermore, the results show that implementing Nature-based Solution, like conservation and restoration of foreshore vegetation, can contribute a large share to reduce flood risk and will next to structural measures, likes dikes and levees, increase the feasibility of adaptation strategies for two-thirds (68%) of the regions assessed. Moreover, we show that restoration of mangroves contribute to the safeguarding of communities by providing coastal flood protection benefits. Therefore, implementing adaptation in low- and middle-income countries could contribute to the resilience of people in poverty, poverty alleviation and help tackle poverty traps. Overall, the results of this thesis contribute to international initiatives such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and can be used to inform policy makers and development agencies on risks from global to regional level. In order to bridge the gap between academia and the risk management community, we integrated the results into the Aqueduct Global Floods webtool (www.wri.org/floods). This webtool allows any user to examine current and future risk, as well as the benefits of strucutral flood protection at the sub-national scale. Implementing adaptation measures, such as mangrove restoration, in LMICs could contribute to the resilience of people in poverty, decrease the risk of displacement and migration, and tackle poverty traps. The loss of these ecosystems disproportionally affects vulnerable groups and communities that live close to the coast and often heavily depend on natural resources. The results can help policymakers to assess the threat of coastal flooding and design sustainable adaptation measures considering poverty dynamics
Benefit-cost analysis of adaptation objectives to coastal flooding at the global scale
No full textThis dataset presents results of benefit-cost analyses of different adaptation objectives using grey infrastructure to coastal flooding at the global scale.
The four adaptation objectives are: (1) ‘Protection constant’, which keeps protection levels in the future the same as current protection levels; (2) ‘Absolute risk constant’, which calculates future protection standards when the absolute value for expected annual damage is kept the same as current; (3) ‘Relative risk constant’, which calculates future protection standards when expected annual damage as a percentage of GDP is kept the same as current; and (4) ‘Optimize’, which calculates future protection standards by maximizing net present value.
The results for each adaptation objective include future protection standards, change in risk relative to GDP, benefit-cost ratio and net present value for various RCP-SSP combinations for sub-national regions.</p
The Baptismal Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
No full textTimothy A. Curtin.Typescript.Thesis (S.T.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1971.Bibliography: leaves 368-393
Five minutes with Timothy Gowers: “academics can publish journals of the highest quality without a commercial entity”
Full text linkFields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics. Discrete Analysis is an arXiv overlay journal, which means articles are submitted and hosted via the preprint server arXiv first. The journal coordinates peer-review and publishes via Scholastica with no cost to reader or author. Gowers reflects here on his vision for the future of editor-owned journals
First person – Timothy Cummins
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Timothy Cummins is the first author on ‘PAWS1 controls cytoskeletal dynamics and cell migration through association with the SH3 adaptor CD2AP’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Timothy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine Clinical Proteomics Center, which focuses on identifying biomarkers of kidney diseases by using quantitative mass spectroscopy.</jats:p
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