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  1. Geographical analysis of commercial motor vehicle hazardous materials crashes on the Oregon state highway system

    Crashes on highways frequently cause hazardous material exposure to the public and the environment. We evaluated differences in hazardous materials-related crashes vs. non-hazardous-material-related commercial...

  2. The Risks of the Rose City: Assessing the Social Vulnerability of Communities to Multiple Environmental Hazards in the...

    In the past three decades, research in the geography of hazards and disasters has expanded beyond the response to hazard events and incorporated the concepts of preparedness, recovery, and mitigation. These...

  3. Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: Natural Hazards: Are You at Risk

    This edition of the Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape focuses on hazard analysis, and looks at the relative danger of earthquake, flood, landslide, debris flow, lava flow, and radon throughout the Portland area....

  4. Decreases in Self-reported Alcohol Consumption Following HIV Counseling and Testing at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

    Background: Alcohol use has a detrimental impact on the HIV epidemic, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV counseling and testing (HCT) may provide a contact opportunity to intervene with hazardous alcohol...

  5. Faulty Measurements and Shaky Tools: An Exploration into Hazus and the Seismic Vulnerabilities of Portland, OR

    Events or forces of nature with catastrophic consequences, or "natural disasters," have increased in both frequency and force due to climate change and increased urbanization in climate-sensitive areas. To...

  6. Hazardous Materials Commodity Flow Study: Marion County, Oregon

    Hazardous materials are prevalent in all communities in the United States. They are stored and they are transported. Regardless of the method of transport, (for this study defined as: pipeline, rail, roadway,...

  7. Correction to "Stochastic comparisons of parallel systems when components have proportional hazard rates"

    In the article "Stochastic comparisons of parallel systems when component have proportional hazard rates" we found a gap in the middle of the proof of Theorem 3.2. Therefore, we do not know whether Theorem 3.2...

  8. Geodesy- and Geology-Based Slip-Rate Models for the Western United States (Excluding California) National Seismic Hazard Maps

    The 2014 National Seismic Hazard Maps for the conterminous United States incorporate additional uncertainty in fault slip-rate parameter that controls the earthquake-activity rates than was applied in previous...

  9. The Influence of Market Proximity on National Forest Hazardous Fuels Treatments

    The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's focus on hazardous fuels reduction has increased since the adoption of the National Fire Plan in 2001. However, appropriations for hazardous fuels reduction...

  10. Structure and Dynamics of Household Hazardous Wastes

    Municipal Solid wastes--the majority of which are household refuse--have, increasingly been implicated as a source of hazardous materials in landfill leachate discharges (U.S. EPA 1988). Data collected on the...

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