Disaster response
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MOVEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS FOR DISASTER RESPONSE MANAGEMENT UTILIZING CELL PHONE USAGE DATA
... As cell phone usage becomes a norm in our daily lives, analysis and application of the data has become part of various research fields. This study focuses on the application of cell phone usage data to disaster ...
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A review of required features for a disaster response system on top of a multi-criteria decision: a Brazilian perspective
... a disaster response ...of Disaster Reports, Regional Contingency Plans module and the web base interface to register new ...the disaster beneficiaries and it does not have an off-line ...to ...
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BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CHLORELLA RESINOID VIA PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM
... the Disaster Protection Act of the Republic of Bulgaria (DPA) and other respective legislation, regulating disaster response and protection training [6, ...European Disaster Response ...
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Addressing geospatial preparedness inequity
... during disaster response in places lacking geospatial preparedness, that development NGOs could improve geospatial preparedness providing long-term sustainability and that IMOs would trust that information, ...
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Medical Students Working on Disaster Relief
... providing disaster response, the most important skills/qualities a medical student that wants to volunteer should have are: good general clinical judgement, on his experience “students who are exposed to ...
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Military Logistics in Natural Disasters: The Use of the NATO Response Force in Assistance to the Pakistan Earthquake Relief Efforts
... In the emergency phase, social routine and economic activity are both drastically al- tered. This phase may be short, lasting only days or a few weeks in societies with good civil defence capacity or longer in societies ...
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Disaster mitigation in health facilities
... include disaster mitigation measures in the design of new hospital facilities, owing to the scarcity of new construction and a lack of interest or commitment on the part of financing agencies (for example, the ...
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Triagem de pacientes em situação de catástrofe
... Triagem de pacientes em situação de catástrofe: aplicativos educacionais disponíveis como ferramenta para treinamento e auxílio de socorristas DISASTER TRIAGE: EDUCATIONAL APPS AVAIL[r] ...
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Afforestation of savannas : an impending ecological disaster
... The so-called reforestation agenda that targets these natu- rally non-forested ecosystems is actually not reforestation at all, but a different process – afforestation. Afforestation has been applied massively in Asia, ...
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Early recovery from disaster: the Pakistan earthquake
... The Pakistani military launched a massive response, supported by US, British, NATO and Australian military forces, amongst others. Coordination was an enormous challenge, as it always is for a host government in ...
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
... in disaster prone areas and is usually related to the fragility, sus- ceptibility or lack of resilience of the population when faced with different hazards [IADB ...
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Pan-Caribbean disaster preparedness and prevention
... 1) Country visits by the preparedness adviser to identify priorities for national emergency plans and to assist in the development of such plans. 2) Regional, subregional, o[r] ...
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Emergency preparedness and disaster relief coordination
... sector, Ministry of Health and Social Security, governmental and non-governmental organizations, civilian and military, national and international communities). The place[r] ...
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Emergency preparedness and disaster relief coordination
... Concerned that the prompt and generous assistance provided to disaster-stricken nations by other Member Countries and by the international community be more attune t[r] ...
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Emergency preparedness and disaster relief
... In mitigation and preparedness, the main partners have been the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (UN / DHA), through the Secretariat of the International Decade for Natural Disaster[r] ...
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CD32.R10: Emergency preparedness and disaster relief coordination
... a disaster by allocating the necessary personnel and budget, to the extent possible, according to the vulnerability of the country to natural disasters, chemical or nuclear accidents, or other emergency situations ...
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Quantitative expression on drought magnitude and disaster intensity
... and disaster intensity, and laid out a new method by quantitative ...and disaster intensity of drought is the quantitative index to describe the scale of loss caused by a ...the disaster situation of ...
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A web based geospatial application for disaster preparedness in Uganda
... (Tran et al., 2009) discuss one of the many ways to involve GT in flood management relevant to this study. The authors use Geographic Information System (GIS) at the local level and express the need for integrating ...
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Assistance for the medical rehabilitation of the disaster area
... To approve the inclusion in the provisional agenda prepared by the Director of the Bureau for the XVIII Pan American Sanitary Conference, XXII Mee t ing of the Regional Committee of the [r] ...
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