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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleExploring the Inadequacy of Pertinent Capacities for Urban Flood Risk Management in the Developing CountriesNkwunonwo Ugonna Chimnonyerem, Chiemelu Emmanuel Ndukwe, Nkwunonwo Ugochi AdannayaOf all the widespread natural hazards with large scale human, economic and environmental impacts, flooding surpasses. In the urban areas, the threats of this hazard are substantial and call for ever more attention, which, within the contexts of sustainable human and urban development, is increasingly an important problem in social science research. Urban flooding is a relatively new hazard phenomenon, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 18 Aug 2016 · 7,828 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Review of Flood Risk Analysis in NigeriaAkinola Adesuji Komolafe, Suleiman Abdul-Azeez Adegboyega, Francis Omowonuola AkinluyiNigeria has witnessed diverse flood events in the past years and due to the high level of vulnerability and lack of coping capacity of the people, with the fast occurrence of extreme events resulting from climate change, many lives and properties are at risk of its impacts. This paper reviews the recent past and present efforts in assessing the flood … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 12 Sep 2015 · 10,800 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMental Health Problems and Coping among Flood Victims in Ghana: A Comparative Study of Victims and Non-VictimsEmmanuel Dziwornu, Nuworza KugbeyThe occurrence of natural disasters results in loss of lives and properties. However, the short and long term focus of assistance is usually on the physical wellbeing of the victims with no attention to their accompanying mental health issues. This study examined the mental health problems and coping strategies among flood victims and non-victims in the Eastern Region of Ghana. … …Current Research in Psychology, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 28 Aug 2015 · 9,843 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleDETECTION OF FLOOD ATTACKS IN DTN USING RATE LIMITER TECHNIQUEC. Balamurugan, M. Viswanathan, T. Abhishek Kumar, G. S. RajFlood attacks means a network becomes so weighed down with packets, caused by the attackers. It prevents packets being sent/received between the nodes in the network. There are many methods adopted to prevent flood attacks in other networks, but none has been installed successfully for DTN’s. Disruption tolerant network is a network, developed in such a manner that intermittent communication … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 7 · 19 Feb 2014 · 6,980 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Impact of a Letter of Map Amendment on Floodplain Property ValueJames E. LarsenSubstantial empirical evidence indicates properties across the United States that are located within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) sell at a discount compared to similar properties otherwise located. This result is also true in our sample. Researchers have suggested the price discount equals a combination of the present value of the required flood insurance premiums and the value of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 14 Aug 2012 · 6,894 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMonitoring of GPS Precipitable Water Vapor During the Severe Flood in KelantanWayan Suparta, Ja’afar Adnan, Mohd. Alauddin Mohd. AliProblem statement: This study mainly discusses the possibility of PWV derived from GPS data for monitoring of water vapor changes during the severe flood due to heavy rainfall. There are two cases of heavy rainfall recorded during the winter monsoon in November 2009 at Kuala Krai, Kelantan. Approach: The first and second cases were sustained for 3 days from 4-6 … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 13 Mar 2012 · 9,166 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFlooding Distributed Denial of Service Attacks-A ReviewKhadijah Wan Mohd Ghazali, Rosilah HassanProblem statement: Flaws either in users’ implementation of a network or in the standard specification of protocols has resulted in gaps that allow various kinds of network attack to be launched. Of the kinds of network attacks, denial-of-service flood attacks have caused the most severe impact. Approach: This study reviews recent researches on flood attacks and their mitigation, classifying such … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 8 · 15 Jul 2011 · 6,847 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleChanging Public Policy Due to Saudi City of Jeddah Flood DisasterNaill M. Momani, Ayman S. FadilProblem statement: This study discussed the last flood disaster which occurred in Jeddah City-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 25th of November 2009 which caused more than 121 fatalities and billions of dollars in losses in addition to around 20,000 sheltered families which cause a shift in public policy to deal with natural disasters in Saudi Arabia. Approach: We followed the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 9,012 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleIntegrated Modeling for Flood Hazard Mapping Using Watershed Modeling SystemSeyedeh S. Sadrolashrafi, Thamer A. Mohamed, Ahmad R.B. Mahmud et al.In this stduy, a new framework which integrates the Geographic Information System (GIS) with the Watershed Modeling System (WMS) for flood modeling is developed. It also interconnects the terrain models and the GIS software, with commercial standard hydrological and hydraulic models, including HEC-1, HEC-RAS, etc. The Dez River Basin (about 16213 km2) in Khuzestan province, IRAN, is domain of study … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 10,792 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFlooding Attack Aware Secure AODVS. Madhavi, K. DuraiswamyProviding security in a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a challenging task due to its inherent nature. Flooding is a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack in MANET. Intentional flooding may lead to disturbances in the networking operation. This kind of attack consumes battery power, storage space and bandwidth. Flooding the excessive number of packets may degrade the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 27 Feb 2013 · 7,535 accessesView PDFCite