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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"emergency response systems"”.
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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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Kinship Infrastructure Design: Evaluating Diversity and Resilience in Emergency Response Systems Through Agent-Based Modeling
<p>Traditional infrastructure systems are often designed for predictable scenarios, making them vulnerable to disruption when real-world conditions change unexpectedly. This research addresses that limitation by introducing Kinship Infrastructure Design (KID), a bioinspired framework based on the …
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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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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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Analysis of Responder-Involved Struck-by Crashes
<p>Emergency responders face significant risks of injury and death from struck-by crashes while operating on or near roadways. Annually, about 50 responders are killed, and hundreds more are injured, leading to operational disruptions and damage to life-saving equipment (ERSI, 2024). This study …
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Assessing Public Health Preparedness in Alberta Using a Systems-Level Approach
… and preparedness of public health and emergency preparedness organizations throughout Alberta was investigated. An online organizational questionnaire provided a census of organizations involved in public health preparedness, and information on the structure of inter-organizational …