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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Emergency response"”.
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Emergency Response Improvement Project
… this CNL internship project is to improve team response to emergencies through staff education and protocol development with 100% participation within six months. This need was determined after an intense analysis following a near code on a pediatric patient. After an investigation, two problems …
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Decision Support for Casualty Triage in Emergency Response
Mass-casualty incidents (MCI) cause a sudden increase in demand of medical resources in a region. The most important and challenging task in addressing an MCI is managing overwhelmed resources with the goal of increasing total number of survivors. Currently, most of the decisions following an MCI …
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Assessing Uncertainty in Volunteered Geographic Information for Emergency Response
… volunteers through the Ushahidi web platform in response to the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Volunteers translated messages submitted by victims in Haiti, categorized each message based on its content, and georeferenced each message on a dynamic web based map. When categorizing …
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Optimization and decision strategies for medical preparedness and emergency response
… propagation module to allow immediate mitigation response to on-site uncertainties, and (3) user-friendly platform to facilitate modeling-solution integration and cross-domain collaboration. The work translates operations research methodologies into practical decision support tools for public …
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A Campus Situational Awareness and Emergency Response Management System Architecture
… enables effective security control and efficient emergency response, the proposed solutions will always fall short. This dissertation describes an architecture for SINERGY (campuS sItuational awareNess and Emergency Response manaGement sYstem) – a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based …
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Optimizing emergency response crew allocation during earthquakes to improve restoration time
… USGIS scenarios that PG&E includes in their emergency response plan. The results from this model would be a critical input to PG&E's emergency response team during an earthquake event. The better we are at predicting damage and allocating resources, the better we will be at minimizing …
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Resilience of transportation network during post-earthquake emergency response and recovery stages
… damaged bridges or debris may cause delays on emergency response activities and impact traffic efficiency and safety during the post-earthquake recovery stage. A functioning post-hazard transportation network is the backbone to support the effective emergency response and maintain efficient …
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Public-private partnerships : security and emergency response collaboration in a new threat environment
… there are several examples of partnerships for emergency response. Since both emergency response partnerships and security collaboratives share the same objective - to protect and secure the personnel, facilities, and supply chain - this thesis investigates emergency response, early detection, …
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Developing a Framework for Stigmergic Human Collaboration with Technology Tools: Cases in Emergency Response
… (GIS), have become a transformational force in emergency response. Social media enables ad hoc collaboration, providing timely, useful information dissemination and sharing, and helping to overcome limitations of time and place. Geographic information systems increase the level of situation …
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Model driven architecture - a tool for enterprise architecture : a look at emergency response systems
… We also examined the current work on designing Emergency Response Systems and customized our generic method to address their specifics. This thesis describes an ideal emergency response system, which we define as a virtual enterprise system, and articulates an Emergency Response System Design …
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Team Member Characteristics Contributing to High Reliability in Emergency Response Teams Managing Critical Incidents
Emergency response team (ERT) member characteristics that contribute to High Reliability performance during patient care resuscitation events or other Critical Incident Management Situations are poorly understood. Findings from this study describe individual characteristics that experienced …
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Kinship Infrastructure Design: Evaluating Diversity and Resilience in Emergency Response Systems Through Agent-Based Modeling
… case study applies KID to a simulated wildfire response scenario, and models firefighting agents such as helicopters, firetrucks, bulldozers, and construction crews. These are encoded with traits like speed and suppression capability to calculate kinship coefficients for different …
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VTGemini: Universal iOS Application for Guided Emergency Response and Notification for the Virginia Tech Community
… for application developers with respect to emergency management. Software engineers from the federal government to individuals have recognized the unique prospect of utilizing always-connected devices to assist in emergency notification, preparedness, and response. The federal government has …
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Improving Operational Readiness of Airport Emergency Response Crews: Utilization of Gaming Theory in Decision Making Simulations
… on the decision-making skills of airport emergency response technicians. Through the use of descriptive research methods this study has examined the benefits of using simulation training to enhance operational readiness. A specialized questionnaire was developed using a Likert scale format …
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An analysis of emergency response times within the public sector emergency medical services in KwaZulu-Natal
… for the degree of Master of Health Sciences in Emergency Medical Care, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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A Solar-Powered and Multi-Tiered Mesh Node for a Portable In Situ Emergency Response System
… to survivors. Current state-of-the-art emergency response systems rely on satellite radio-enabled devices, but survivors, unlike first responders, do not have access to such devices. To mitigate this problem, we present PERPETUU a solar-powered portable GIS microserver. The microserver …
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The Development of an Emergency Response Plan for Medical Contingencies during Commercial Spaceflight at the Houston Spaceport
… Field in Houston, Texas, in developing a medical response plan for contingency scenarios during its mission operations. With appropriate infrastructure development, the Houston Spaceport could become a leader in the commercial spaceflight industry and act as a model for space safety.
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You Make the Call: Using Officer Discretion In Selection of Emergency Response Mode for Fire and EMS
… to develop and analyze the effectiveness of emergency and non-emergency response mode criteria. Current and past literature was reviewed looking for similar systems currently in use and studies examining the effectiveness of those programs. National standards and laws were examined to attempt …
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Optimization of an Emergency Response Vehicle's Intra-Link Movement in Urban Transportation Networks Utilizing a Connected Vehicle Environment
Downstream vehicles detect an emergency response vehicle (ERV) through sirens and/or strobe lights. These traditional warning systems do not give any recommendation about how to react, leaving the drivers confused and often adopting unsafe behavior while trying to open a passage for the ERV. In …
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