简介：Iama~*moviefanatic.WhenfriendswanttoknowwhatpicturewontheOscarin1980orwhoplayedthepolicechiefinJawstheyaskme.Myfriends,though,havestoppedaskingmeifIwanttogoouttothemovies.Theproblemsingettingtothetheater,thetheateritself,andthebehaviorofsomepa-

简介：VarioustypesofgeologicalhazardsexistintheSouthChinaSea.Indynamicssense,theycanbecategorizedinto5principalgenetictypesrelatedtoeffectsofhydraulicdynamics,gaseousactivity,soilmechanics,gravityandtectonism,respectively.Integratedanalysesindicatethatthegeologicalhazardsassociatedwithvolcanoes,earthquakesandfracturesaremainlydistributedintectonicallyactiveregions,whereasthoseresultingfrommudflows,landslidesanddiapirsareusuallyconcentratedintheregionofslope,thatshallowgas,highpressuregaspocketsandsoftintercalationsaremajorpotentialgeologicalhazardsintheinnershelf,andthatstronghydraulicdynamics,especiallystormtide,isoneofthemajorcausesofgeologicalhazardsinthelittoralareas.ThegeologicalhazardsthatoccurredintheSouthChinaSeaarealsocharacterizedbyperiodicity,successionand,toacertainextent,unpredictabilityinadditiontoregionalization.

简介：Coastallowlandshavelargeareasofhazardimpactandrelativelylowcapacityofpreventiontothewaterrelatedhazards,whichhavebeenindicatedbythewide-spreadfloodhazards,highpercentagesoflandwithhighfloodvulnerability.Increasingpopulationpressureandtheshiftofresourcesexploitationfromlandtoseawillforcemoreandmorecoastallowlandstobedevelopedinthefuture,furtherenhancingthedangerofwater-relatedhazards.Inthispaper,thecoastallowlandsinthenorthernJiangsuprovince,China,wereselectedasacasestudy.TheInterpretationStructuralModel(ISM)wasemployedtoanalyzethedirectandindirectimpactsamongtheelementswithinthesystem,andthereby,toidentifythecausalelements,middlelinkages,theirexpressions,andrelations.

简介：Manysurvivalstudiesrecordthetimestotwoormoredistinctfailuresoneachsubject.Thefailuresmaybeeventsofdifferentnaturesormayberepetitionsofthesamekindofevent.Inthisarticle,weconsidertheregressionanalysisofsuchmultivariatefailuretimedataundertheadditivehazardsmodel.Simpleweightedestimatingfunctionsfortheregressionparametersareproposed,andasymptoticdistributiontheoryoftheresultingestimatorsarederived.Inaddition,aclassofgeneralizedWaldandgeneralizedscorestatisticsforhypothesistestingandmodelselectionarepresented,andtheasymptoticpropertiesofthesestatisticsareexamined.

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简介：The26thDecember2004earthquakeofMw9.3isthesecondlargestearthquakeevertohavebeenrecorded.ThisgeneratedatsunamiwhichaffectedseveralAsiancountries.InIndia,theAndaman&Nicobargroupofislands,andcoastalstatesofTamilNadu,AndhraPradeshandKeralawereseverelyaffected.Here,webrieflyprovideanoutlineoftheapproachtakenbyIndiaforanearlywarningsystemformitigationofoceanogenicdisasters.

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