Natural disaster
Models and Algorithms for Natural Disaster Evacuation Problems
... a natural disaster, mainly a wildfire or a ...the disaster, adapting standard logistics (food, drinkable water, health…) to the current state of infrastructures, and evacuating endangered areas (see ...
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Prenatal Stress due to a Natural Disaster Predicts Adiposity in Childhood: The Iowa Flood Study
... Natural disasters provide excellent opportunities to examine the effects of prenatal stress on childhood out- comes because the stressors are independent of potentially confounding genetic and medical risk factors ...
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Arkema was not a Natural Disaster. It was a Preventable Accident Waiting to Happen
... for natural disaster ...nuclear disaster was surely a wakeup call on the potential of hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis to compromise electrical power and greatly compound an impending ...
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The tsunami in South-East Asia – a retrospective analysis of the management of an apocalyptic natural disaster
... globalised natural disaster (Anonyme, 2005a; Debarbieux, ...this natural disaster, this paper sets out to explore the challenges of the management of tsunami-related ...this natural ...
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Decision support for infrastructure network vulnerability assessment in natural disaster crisis situations
... 156 The use of Multi Agent System approach seems to be indicated to more than one title. In the context of this thesis, an agent could be seen as an autonomous computer module which is able to take decisions in an ...
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Prenatal stress due to a natural disaster predicts insulin secretion in adolescence
... 9. Dancause KN, Laplante DP, Fraser S, Brunet A, Ciampi A, Schmitz N, et al. Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster increases risk for obesity in 5 ½ year old children. Pediatr Res. 2012; 71:126–131. ...
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Decision Support for Infrastructure network vulnerability assessment in natural disaster crisis situations
... References [1] D. Kamissoko, « Decision support for infrastructure network vulnerability assessment in natural disaster crisis situations », Doctorate, University of Toulouse, University of Toulouse 1 ...
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Medium-term health of seniors following exposure to a natural disaster
... a natural disaster, as well as those of Jia et al, 48 which showed that advanced age combined with fear for one’s physical safety during a traumatic event increase PTSD ...the disaster event ...
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Decision Support System for Infrastructure Networks Vulnerability to Natural Disaster
... The VESTA project aims to propose a methodology of analysing infrastructure network risk and vulnerability in the field of prevention or reduction of the natural disaster consequences. This model will lead ...
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Towards Situation-based IT Management During Natural Disaster Crisis
... information will be hence transformed into structured information relevant for the definition of operational policies. Besides, we have developed dynSMAUG, a dynamic security management framework driven by situations ...
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Psychosocial support during displacement due to a natural disaster: relationships with distress in a lower-middle income country
... a natural disaster and psychosocial distress among men and women, and differences based on psychosocial sup- port received during ...to natural disasters in ...
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Pregnant women's cognitive appraisal of a natural disaster affects their children's BMI and central adiposity via DNA methylation: Project Ice Storm
... Project Ice Storm provides a unique opportunity to study all of the above factors from an independent stressor due to a natural disaster. Project Ice Storm has been following a cohort of children whose ...
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Men’s help-seeking attitudes in rural communities affected by a natural disaster
... The objectives of the present study were (a) to identify the motivations and hindrances influencing men’s help- seeking and (b) to identify men’s needs in relation to health and social[r] ...
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Natural natural disasters and economic disruption
... It may be noted that some instruments could alleviate the aftermath of a natural disaster. Insurance, aid contributions and debt rescheduling might provide imme- diate ex-post resources. Insurance is almost ...
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Towards "drone-borne" disaster management: future application scenarios
... a natural disaster occurs in a populated zone, a fast and effective organization of the disaster management is required to assist the affected population, minimize the number of victims and limit the ...
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Towards a Performance Measurement System to Control Disaster Response
... 206 C. Rongier, et al. possible to attach more importance to one of the criteria, for example gravity for a natural disaster. The goal is to determine the most critical activities to treat them in ...
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Reducing Disaster Displacement Risk in Southern Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
... Most disaster responses so far have been reactive rather than preemptive, highlighting the need to promote resilience and preparedness in the face of both slow-onset and sudden-onset ...and disaster-induced ...
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A Multi-Agent System for Studying Cross-Border Disaster Resilience
... A Multi-Agent System for Studying Cross-Border Disaster Resilience ABSTRACT Resilience to disasters depends on measures taken before, during and after the occurrence of adverse events. These measures require ...
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Data-driven optimization of OFDA's disaster response capacity: Final Report
... the disaster portfolio and include varying lead times, the research team opted for a simulation ...individual disaster occurrences from BHA’s past response activities and organized this data sequentially by ...
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Microservice Disaster Crash Recovery: A Weak Global Referential Integrity Management
... A disaster crash of a microservice µs means that its local database and its log are lost and we have to recover the database from a past backup.The backup provides a consistent state of the local database. ...
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