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Natural Disasters

Known as: Disaster, Natural, disaster natural, Disasters, Natural 
Sudden calamitous events producing great material damage, loss, and distress. They are the result of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, floods… 
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Climate change threatens the objective of eradicating poverty. Poor people and poor countries are already vulnerable to all types… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
Pediatric otolaryngology in a field hospital in the Philippines.
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
The role of Twitter during a natural disaster: Case study of 2011 Thai Flood
With the emergence of Web 2.0, social media became a key platform that allowed people to interact and share information. Unlike… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Organizational characteristics of the austere intensive care unit: The evolution of military trauma and critical care medicine; applications for civilian medical care systems
Critical care in the U.S. military has significantly evolved in the last decade. More recently, the U.S. military has implemented… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
An investigation of the relationship between cognitive reactivity and rumination.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A forest planning problem solved by a linear fractional goal programming model
2006
2006
The 1906 earthquake and a century of progress in understanding earthquakes and their hazards
Our knowledge of the earliest historic earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area comes from Spanish mission records, dating back… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Natural Disasters: Health and Mental Health Considerations
The recent occurrence of the tsunami in southwest Asia heightened awareness of the devastating impact of natural disasters on… 
2002
2002
The Mediating Effects of Attributional Style and Event-Specific Attributions on Postdisaster Adjustment
Attributional style and event-specific internal attributions were examined as cognitive mediators for the negative effect of… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Corporate Catastrophes, Stock Returns, and Trading Volume
This paper extends the literature to a redefinition of catastrophes, takes it international, and attempts to model the impact on… 
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