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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

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But the failures with FEMA and disaster response after Hurricane Katrina and under Trump with Puerto Rico and Houston are a good example. But I don't know if the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers and levees was about capital shallowing or just politics, failure to adequately address risk, budget shortfalls, etc.

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Your cloud, your way: Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is generally available

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In 2020, Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty vision that included three distinct pillars: data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty. Use Vision AI to optimize natural disaster response, analyze infectious diseases, or detect fraud. Train ML models on sensitive economic datasets.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

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Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8 The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). The magnitude 6.9 tremors killed 2,914 people and injured 8,848.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

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