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Disaster Mitigation Engineering -the Kobe Earthquake Disaster

The concept of plate tectonics is generally accepted in earth science and seismology. The surface of the earth is divided into rigid tectonic plates that move on the earth surface at extremely slow speed. The islands of Japan sit on the North American and Eurasian plates. The Pacific plate moves westward and the Philippines plate moves to northwest direction; both plates sink under the islands ...

Disaster studies

Disaster studies address the social and behavioral aspects of sudden onset collective stress situations typically referred to as mass emergencies or disasters. These situations can be created by natural hazards, technological accidents, violent intergroup conflicts, shortages of vital resources, and other major hazards to life, health, property, well-being and everyday routines. Disaster studie...

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Island disaster

attacking film reels stored in the UK's North West Film Archive. Although the fungi responsible were common Aspergillus and Penicillum species, the discovery reveals the ubiquity of fungi. " Fungi are the great recyclers — the 'rotting fungi' break down dead and decaying matter while other fungi are intimately associated with roots, ensuring that our forest trees can absorb essential nutrients,...

Disaster preparedness.

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

Blood products supply chain design considering disaster circumstances (Case study: earthquake disaster in Tehran)

Maintaining the health of people during and after a disaster is one of the most important issues in disaster management. Blood products are among the essential items needed to save the human life and the lack of them may lead to significant losses in human health. In this paper a comprehensive mathematical model of blood products supply chain is presented to respond the need for blood products ...