Frances C. Wilkinson is Deputy Dean of University Libraries and Professor of University Libraries and Learning Sciences in the University Libraries at the University of New Mexico; e-mail: fwilkins@unm. edu. © 2015 Frances C. Wilkinson, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This qualitative study examines the relationship between emotional intellig...

Perspectives The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has firmly placed disability in a human rights perspective. In the context of the Convention, disability refers to activity limitations and participation restrictions that result from the interaction of an impairment of body function or structure with environmental factors. The Convention addresses the rights ...

OBJECTIVE To study whether the methods used to select participants in research on prevalence rates of the health effects of exposure to a disaster may cause bias. This study compared background characteristics, disaster exposure, and complaints reported by (1) police officers who participated in an epidemiological study and underwent a medical examination, and (2) police officers who only parti...

OBJECTIVES Disaster medicine research generally lacks control groups. This study aims to describe categories of diagnoses encountered by the Belgian First Aid and Support Team after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and extract earthquake-related changes from comparison with comparable baseline data. The hypothesis is that besides earthquake-related trauma, medical problems emerge soon, questioning an ...

One of the most important goals of disaster management teams is to protect the assets and infrastructures of the community in the event of accidents such as wildfires and floods. This issue requires appropriate operations of all disaster management teams and analysis of available information for suitable decision making and consequently timely response. A mixed integer mathematical model is pre...

Abstract This article attempts to reveal how and why international rescue relief operations had difficulties, following the 2011 East Japan earthquake, in being smoothly received a country like with well-prepared domestic natural disaster response mechanisms as well highly regulated economy society. To this end, examines lessons challenges from by foreign assistance teams then tries present pos...

Reform (FAIR) Act implemented farm program contract payments that do not increase as agricultural prices fall, shifting farm policy toward a greater emphasis on risk management and, in particular, on crop insurance. This shift has resulted in the introduction of new types of insurance policies; especially those that provide both yield and price protection. Several new and innovative crop polici...

introduction: disaster occurs almost daily in the world and increases the issue of it because of high volume of population, industrialization and acts of terrorism, my country is one of the most unexpected event areas of the world. health care systems encounter special challenges in disaster management, that they include triage and treatment a large number victims and also victims' information ...

Katrina caused enormous physical destruction, environmental degradation, and human misery (Travis 2005). Full remedia-tion will take years, and many decisions that are fundamental to the restoration and rejuvenation of the Gulf Coast are yet to be made. The challenges for New Orleans, Louisiana, are particularly complex. Criticism of the disaster response and preparedness effort was swift and i...