Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey

DE Alexander - Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2013 - nhess.copernicus.org
This paper examines the development over historical time of the meaning and uses of the
term resilience. The objective is to deepen our understanding of how the term came to be …

High efficiency single dopant white electrophosphorescent light emitting diodes

…, J Brooks, A Tamayo, AM Alexander… - New journal of …, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient white electrophosphorescence has been achieved with a single emissive dopant.
The dopant in these white organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) emits simultaneously from …

Intramolecular hydrogen bonding to improve membrane permeability and absorption in beyond rule of five chemical space

A Alex, DS Millan, M Perez, F Wakenhut… - MedChemComm, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Utilising ‘beyond rule of five’ chemical space is becoming increasingly important in drug
design, but is usually at odds with good oral absorption. The formation of intramolecular …

[BOOK][B] Principles of emergency planning and management

DE Alexander - 2002 - books.google.com
As interest in planning for emergencies and disasters burgeons, and educational and training
programs proliferate, Principles of emergency planning and management is the first book …

Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management

DE Alexander - Science and engineering ethics, 2014 - Springer
This paper reviews the actual and potential use of social media in emergency, disaster and
crisis situations. This is a field that has generated intense interest. It is characterised by a …

[HTML][HTML] Readiness of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter for LHC collisions

…, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre… - The European Physical …, 2010 - Springer
The ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter has been operating continuously since August 2006. At
this time, only part of the calorimeter was readout, but since the beginning of 2008, all …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

…, F Alessandria, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre… - Physics Letters B, 2012 - Elsevier
A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton–proton collisions with the ATLAS
detector at the LHC is presented. The datasets used correspond to integrated luminosities of …

[HTML][HTML] The ATLAS simulation infrastructure

…, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre… - The European Physical …, 2010 - Springer
The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being used
for large-scale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation requires …

[HTML][HTML] Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data

…, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre… - The European Physical …, 2012 - Springer
Detailed measurements of the electron performance of the ATLAS detector at the LHC are
reported, using decays of the Z, W and J/ψ particles. Data collected in 2010 at $\sqrt{s}=7\…

[HTML][HTML] Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at with ATLAS

…, C Alexa, G Alexander, G Alexandre… - The European Physical …, 2012 - Springer
The measurement of missing transverse momentum in the ATLAS detector, described in this
paper, makes use of the full event reconstruction and a calibration based on reconstructed …