From political turmoil to economic recession, Rio has been hit by a series of national and local calamities that have overshadowed preparations, undermined confidence and prompted questions about who stands to benefit from the mega-event.
In the Philippines, the national calamity fund and the local disaster risk reduction and management fund (LDRRMF) have operated actively since 2012 (American Red Cross 2013).
But even as climate pollution slowly contributes to a global calamity, it immediately coincides with local public health impacts from ozone and particulate emissions.
When calamity strikes, local government comes into its own.
When I started the story, I, too, expected brimstone, or a more modern kind of lava, to pour through an opening in the sky, dousing the characters until they writhed in pain, but the brimstone didn't come, and the calamity stayed local and small, for which I'm grateful.
Compared with traditional neural networks, SVM can use the theory of minimizing the structure risk to avoid the problems of excessive study, calamity data, local minimal value and etc.
New York is so ethnically diverse that nearly every international calamity has a local dimension.
The combined effects of ITV's long-term retreat from its regional roots - and with that its commitment to local programming - and the commercial calamity affecting much of the UK's local press, has forced the issue up the political/regulatory agenda.
In light of the Katrina and Rita evacuation calamities, federal, state and local authorities must take a fresh look at the so-called approved plans for dealing with an explosion at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.
