Sentence examples for example disaster from inspiring English sources

For example, disaster workers in an earthquake zone could harness the accelerometers in their phones together to provide a digital seismograph, tracking aftershocks.

The Chinese startup is also planning to produce a one-meter long drone that can carry up to 10kg and is intended for interval logistics (like package deliveries, for example), disaster relief, forest fire detection, and other heavy-duty use cases.

The concept underwent its most prominent reinvention within the field of social ecology through C. S. Holling's studies in the 1970s (Holling 1973), and spread across many disciplines over the next two decades, ascending to the core of different discourses, for example, disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster education and prevention, risk communication, and sustainability, among others.

Random parameter models allow the coefficients of the predictors (for example, disaster impact factors and economic characteristics of the countries/regions) to vary across the observations per an analyst-specified continuous distribution (Anastasopoulos and Mannering 2011; Venkataraman et al. 2013; Mannering et al. 2016).

This type of heterogeneity occurs when a single predictor variable (for example, disaster impact variable and economic characteristics of the countries/regions) is forced to have the same effect on the response variable (country-level economic growth) through a fixed parameter.

For example, disasters can have systematically unequal impacts by gender before, during, and after a disaster event.

For example, disasters effect investment options in the form of social goods because disaster response requires expenditures on relief goods, reconstruction of houses, and reinstallation of utility services.

In these examples, disaster events were coupled with strong advocacy coalitions that promoted policy change.

Britain's parliament gave the victims £100,000, an early example of disaster relief.The great Lisbon earthquake was the first of a series of natural disasters to strike Europe in the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when growing scientific observation was providing new explanations of the natural world to rival those of the church.

The press coverage surrounding the evacuation was later cited as an example of "disaster pornography", in academic analyses concerned with the portrayal of child victims of violence and disaster in ways that reaffirm those victims' remoteness from and subjectivity to western (here, Northwestern European) agency.

To take a less visible example, the disaster shut down a shelter for battered women.