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Oliver Smith

- Verified email at micropathology.com - Cited by 1249

Oliver Smith

- Verified email at plymouth.ac.uk - Cited by 840

Oliver Smith

- Verified email at portlandoregon.gov - Cited by 214

Anthropological research on hazards and disasters

A Oliver-Smith - Annual review of anthropology, 1996 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Recent perspectives in anthropological research define a disaster as a process/event
involving the combination of a potentially destructive agent(s) from the natural and/or …

Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities

…, R Pulwarty, K Hewitt, A Oliver-Smith… - … Change Part B …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
A disaster is widely perceived as an event that is beyond human control; the capricious
hand of fate moves against unsuspecting communities creating massive destruction and …

A new model for ancient DNA decay based on paleogenomic meta-analysis

L Kistler, R Ware, O Smith, M Collins… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The persistence of DNA over archaeological and paleontological timescales in diverse
environments has led to a revolutionary body of paleogenomic research, yet the dynamics of …

Deviant leisure: A criminological perspective

O Smith, T Raymen - Theoretical Criminology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology.
Through reorienting our understanding of ‘deviance’ from a contravention of norms and values …

Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning

…, R Ring, D Yogatama, D Wünsch, K McKinney, O Smith… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Many real-world applications require artificial agents to compete and coordinate with other
agents in complex environments. As a stepping stone to this goal, the domain of StarCraft has …

A general equation for relaxation oscillations

N Levinson, OK Smith - 1942 - projecteuclid.org
1. Introduction. The importance of relaxation oscillations in physical and engineerin problems
was shown by Van der Pol, who also treated by graphical methods a particular equation …

The effect of renewable energy incorporation on power grid stability and resilience

O Smith, O Cattell, E Farcot, RD O'Dea, KI Hopcraft - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Contemporary proliferation of renewable power generation is causing an overhaul in the
topology, composition, and dynamics of electrical grids. These low-output, intermittent …

Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America

…, NAS Przelomska, F Malaquias Costa, O Smith… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico beginning
around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by ~7500 yr BP, …

Commute well-being differences by mode: Evidence from Portland, Oregon, USA

O Smith - Journal of Transport & Health, 2017 - Elsevier
To understand the impact of daily travel on personal and so cietal well-being, researchers are
developing more sophisticated quantitative measures of travel satisfaction. Metrics related …

Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago

O Smith, G Momber, R Bates, P Garwood, S Fitch… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Mesolithic-to-Neolithic transition marked the time when a hunter-gatherer economy
gave way to agriculture, coinciding with rising sea levels. Bouldnor Cliff, is a submarine …