INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNITY-BASED RISK ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG THE FULANI HERDER COMMUNITY OF KPONGU, NORTH-WESTERN GHANA

Indigenous knowledge and community-based risk assessment of climate change among the Fulani Herder Community of Kpongu, North-Western Ghana

Given rising concerns about Cyclist Accessories - Clothing - Outerwear climate change and development in Africa, this paper draws on Community Risk Assessment for mapping the risks of Fulani Herders to climate change in North-Western Ghana.Herder communities are seldom explored in climate change related studies although their livelihoods largely de

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Generalized Fragility Relationships with Local Site Conditions for Probabilistic Performance-based Seismic Risk Assessment of Bridge Inventories

The current practice of detailed seismic risk assessment cannot be easily applied to all the bridges in a large transportation networks due to limited resources.This paper presents a new approach for seismic risk assessment of large bridge inventories in a city or national bridge network based on the framework of probabilistic performance based sei

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In-Process Analysis of Melt Pool Fluctuations with Scanning Optical Coherence Tomography for Laser Welding of Copper for Quality Monitoring

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an inline process monitoring technology for laser welding with various applications in the pre-, in-, and post-process.In-process monitoring with OCT focuses on the measurement of weld depth by the placement of a singular measurement beam into the keyhole.A laterally scanned measurement beam gives the opportuni

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