Preparing children for natural disasters

Preparing for disasters.

COVER Spin-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) image (width: 51.6 nanometers) of single magnetic skyrmions (gray) and a few remaining spin spiral lines in a bilayer of Pd/Fe on top of an Ir(111) surface. The magnetic STM tip is sensitive to the out-of-plane magnetization component of the sample. Skyrmions can be created and annihilated locally by injecting spin-polarized currents from ...

Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet: Preparing Children for Natural Disasters

This paper first reviews research linked to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction focusing on ―child-centred disaster risk reduction‖ (CC-DRR), highlighting systemic aspects of disaster prevention and preparedness educational programming to date. However, it is also pointed out that education evaluated to date largely assumes a linear, mechanistic approach to prepared...

Natural Disasters

Planning for Medical Emergency Transportation Vehicles during Natural Disasters

One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordingly, a number of casualties and injured people have to be known during a disaster. Obtaining an ...

Lessons from Sandy--preparing health systems for future disasters.

network.” Since the Wi-Fi was still working, residents downloaded a telephony app onto their phones and used it to send urgent text messages. At one point, the system brought several residents together for a code in a dark room. By the glow of headlamps and bobbing flashlights, a resident began resuscitation while others prepared to place a central catheter. While Samad tried to sustain morale,...