Natural Disaster: Much Space for Progress!

Goal programming-based post-disaster decision making for allocation and scheduling the rescue units in natural disaster with time-window

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause enormous harm during each year. To reduce casualties and economic losses in the response phase, rescue units must be allocated and scheduled efficiently, such that it is a key issues in emergency response. In this paper, a multi-objective mix integer nonlinear programming model (MOMINLP) is proposed to minimize sum of weight...

Expert Systems for Natural Disaster Event Extraction

Remote Sensing for Natural Disaster Management

Natural disasters are extreme events within the earth's system that result in death or injury to humans, and damage or loss of valuable goods, such as buildings, communication systems, agricultural land, forest, natural environment etc. The economic losses due to natural disasters have shown an increase with a factor of eight over the past four decades, caused by the increased vulnerability of ...

Social Media-Based Identifier for Natural Disaster

This article proposes a conceptual framework design tool to implement Secure Place Locator (SPL) that can help the process of Disaster Management (DM) through utilizing social media, in which this software can inform disaster site and safe point for casualities evacuation in real time with Geographic Information System (GIS) aid. The discussion is limited to the system design, with design metho...

So much effort, so little progress?

In colorectal cancer (CRC), the treatment guidelines differ for Union International Contrè Cancer (UICC) stage II and III colon cancer patients. In patients with stage II colon cancer without risk factors such as T4 tumor, tumor perforation, emergency surgical procedure, or less than 12 removed lymph nodes, the low risk of recurrence is justifying no role of adjuvant chemotherapy. It would be c...