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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “"Emergency management"”.
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Analyzing Twitter Data for Emergency Management
… during disastrous events. During emergencies, emergency personnel need to make strategic decisions in a short amount of time, coordinate actions and prioritize tasks. Social media can be a powerful source of information that comes directly from the public; it can reflect public sentiment, …
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Novel Approaches to the Emergency Management of Hyperkalaemia
… blood and, if severe, can constitute a medical emergency. Prevalence estimates have historically varied greatly depending on the population investigated with reports ranging from 1-10% in patients admitted to hospital. Management of severe hyperkalaemia (serum potassium >6.5 mmol/L) is typically …
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A reference data access service in support of emergency management
… natural disasters recovery and reduction and of emergency management georeferenced information is strongly needed. In my personal experience obtained in the three years period spent at ITHACA, during the shorter at GFDRR Labs and through the work done indirectly with UN-WFP, after a natural …
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A decision support system for mass evacuation and emergency management
… decision makers make decisions while facing emergency or disaster evacuation conditions, that is, to build a decision support system for mass evacuation and emergency management. By combining MASSVAC2 and HEUPRAE2 analysis models, shortest path finding technique, computer graphic display …
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The Sound of Silence: First Nations and British Columbia Emergency Management
… regulatory and treaty frameworks impacting emergency management in British Columbia, with a particular emphasis on Crown-identified First Nation roles. I show that the regime overwhelmingly positions non-First Nation governments, contractors and other organizations to manage emergencies on …
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Understanding health emergency management response planning in Oman: perspectives on standardization.
… regarded as a critical phase in the disaster management cycle as it happens during the event itself. In particular, extensive stakeholder effort often boils down to and concentrated within the response point. Understanding then both the complexity of this phase and the nature of the …
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Explainable and Network-based Approaches for Decision-making in Emergency Management
… well-being of people. CIs play a crucial role in emergency management. For example, the recent Hurricane Ida, Texas Winter storm, colonial cyber-attack that occurred during 2021 in the US, shows the CIs are highly inter-dependent with complex interactions. Hence power system failures and shutdown …
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Organization and reorganization as manifestation of public policy: national security emergency management
… interagency program for national security emergency preparedness (NSEP). The research examines NSEP organizational history starting with its formal creation in 1933, and focusing on its most recent structure, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (during the 1978-1990 period). The …
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Optimization Models Addressing Emergency Management Decisions During a Mass Casualty Incident Response
Emergency managers are often faced with the toughest decisions that can ever be made, people's lives hang in the balance. Nevertheless, these tough decisions have to be made, and made quickly. There is usually too much information to process to make the best decisions. Decision support systems can …
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Risk and Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Systems: a basis for proactive emergency management
… vulnerabilities of complex systems in a societal emergency management context. Operational definitions of vulnerability and emergency response capabilities are suggested and two methods for analysing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure networks, based on the suggested definition, are …
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Intergovernmental Collaboration in Emergency Management: The Case of the September 2009 Georgia Flood
… aspects of intergovernmental collaboration in emergency management at the local, state, and federal level. It provides a descriptive analysis of how these mechanisms interact with each other for effective emergency management. Most importantly, this study provides a unique insight on how …
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Optimization-based Logistics Planning and Performance Measurement for Hospital Evacuation and Emergency Management
… as well as the analyses of various resource management strategies in terms of the equity of evacuation plans generated. We first formulate the evacuation transportation problem of a hospital as an integer programming model that minimizes the total evacuation risk consisting of the threat risk …
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READING FROM THE SAME MAP: TOWARDS A NEW SITUATIONAL AWARENESS MODEL FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
… issue for public safety disciplines, including emergency management, law enforcement, and the fire service. These fields operate substantially differently from each other, but share a common model for SA, based on John Boyd’s OODA loop. Boyd’s model, though applied widely, is heavily shaped by …
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An exploration of cloud-based technology for enhancing emergency management: Cases from New Zealand
… is known about the role they might play in emergency management, in particular in natural emergencies. This research addresses this gap by exploring emergency management professionals’ perceptions of cloud usage in key emergency management lifecycle stages of preparedness and response. The …
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Social Vulnerability and Public Health: Developing A Metric For Medical Emergency Management In Florida
… that correlate with the responsibilities of Emergency Support Function 8 (public health and medical services). Consequently, this research develops the concept of medical vulnerability, an explicit construct that demonstrates those underrepresented vulnerable populations. The concept is …
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Risk and vulnerability analysis in society’s proactive emergency management: Developing methods and improving practices
… play important roles in the society’s proactive emergency management. This thesis addresses two ways of improving the analysis of risk and vulnerability analysis in this context. First, by developing methods for risk and vulnerability analysis of technical infrastructure networks and emergency …
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Credibility assessment of volunteered geographic information for emergency management: a Bayesian network modeling approach
An emerging paradigm of volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the field of Geography was resulted from recent advances of GPS equipped mobile devices such as the iPhone, and the amount of geographic information and its promptness has been dramatically increased with the participation of …
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Federal Preparedness Grants: An Investigation Of The Impacts To Local And State Emergency Management Programs
… federal government influences local and state emergency management through national emergency management doctrine as well as providing considerable grant programs to local and state governments who adopt the federal policies. The study attempts to explore some effects of this policy dichotomy. …
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