Initial MEWS score to predict ICU admission or transfer of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A retrospective study
Published in The Journal of Infection
Developing a sociocultural framework of compliance: an exploration of factors related to the use of early warning system...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundEarly warning systems (EWS) are most effective when clinicians monitor patients’ vital signs and comply with the recommended escalation of care protocols once deterioration is recognised.ObjectivesTo explore sociocultural factors influencing acute care clinicians’ compliance with an early warning system commonly used in Queensland public ...
Machine Learning: New Potential for Local and Regional Deep-Seated Landslide Nowcasting
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nowcasting and early warning systems for landslide hazards have been implemented mostly at the slope or catchment scale. These systems are often difficult to implement at regional scale or in remote areas. Machine Learning and satellite remote sensing products offer new opportunities for both local and regional monitoring of deep-seated landslide d...
Regional rainfall threshold maps drawn through multivariate geostatistical techniques for shallow landslide hazard zonat...
Published in The Science of the total environment
The Empirical Rainfall Thresholds (ERTs) for shallow landslide initiation are commonly devised worldwide mostly to be implemented within landslide early warning systems. Nonetheless, since the pioneering works on ERTs in the 1980s, only meteorological variables - that are cumulated E or intensity I and duration D values of rainfalls that are likely...
An Early Warning System for Debris Flows and Snow Avalanches
To protect a mountain road against debris flows and snow avalanches that occur periodically along a gully, an innovative monitoring and early warning system (EWS) was designed, installed and tested. The system is based on a detection section equipped with 3 inclinometers suspended above the gully located at approximately 120 m upstream from the roa...
The efficacy of twelve early warning systems for potential use in regional medical facilities in Queensland, Australia.
Published in Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
Early warning system (EWS) validation studies are conducted predominantly in tertiary metropolitan facilities and are not necessarily applicable to regional hospitals. This study evaluates 12 EWSs for use in regional subcritical hospitals. This is a retrospective case-control study of patients who experienced severe adverse events (SAEs) in two reg...
Food Security Tipping Points: Using remote sensing to improve famine early warning systems
With a growing population and climate-related disasters projected to become more severe, the need to anticipate and better prepare for food crises has never been higher. Status quo early warning systems perform well, by and large, but complex weather phenomena are a major source of uncertainty. In this dissertation, I explore whether statistical di...
Erosion and Deposition Volumes Estimation Using a Drone and Near Surface Geophysics Methods in Coastal Badlands Context....
A four-year diachronic study was carried out on coastal badlands cliffs ("les falaises des Vaches Noires", Normandy, France) to assess erosion and acretion volumes. Cretaceous to Jurassic facies at cliffs face are exposed to erosion activated by rainfalls on the tableland and tempests and high tidals at the bottom. Consequences have a direct impact...
Data Reduction Techniques of Coral Reef Morphology and Hydrodynamics for use in Wave Runup Prediction
Many tropical, coral reef-lined coasts, are low-lying with elevations less than five meters above mean sea level. Climate-change-driven sea level rise, coral reef decay and changes in (storm) wave climate will lead to greater chance and impacts of wave-driven flooding, posing a heavy threat to these coastal communities. Early warning systems (EWS) ...
How accurate is food security early warning? Evaluation of FEWS NET accuracy in Ethiopia
Published in Food Security
Famine early warning systems are fundamental for anticipating and preventing food security crises. These systems require diverse socio-economic, climate and other environmental indicators. However, the uncertainty that is inherent in climate forecasts and other early warning data can influence the accuracy of early warning systems. Inaccurate forec...
