This chapter presents a disaster recovery scenario that has been used throughout the ASCENS project as a reference to coordinate the study of distributed algorithms for robot ensembles. We first introduce the main traits and open problems in the design of behaviors for robot ensembles. We then present the scenario, highlighting its generality as a framework to compare algorithms and methodologi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the preparedness of health workers in St James, Jamaica, to respond to natural disasters. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on a 25% quota sample of hospital and health department staff in St James in 2005 (n = 307). Awareness of and attitudes to disaster management policies, plans and training and how these influenced their response in Hurricane Ivan were eva...

Few studies currently examine the effect of different disaster informational programmes because conducting such intervention is challenging. By providing two types online learning programmes, this study measured changes made to three perspectives: (1) preventive awareness scores, (2) willingness pay for information (WTP), and (3) settlement preferences (preferences post-disaster recovery goals)...

BACKGROUND A storm-related disaster in New South Wales, Australia in June 2007 caused infrastructure damage, interrupted essential services, and presented major public health risks. We investigated household disaster preparedness and information sources used before and during the disaster. METHODS Rapid cluster survey of 320 randomly selected households in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, New So...

Hospitals play an important role in maintaining social infrastructure and are therefore required to perform emergency response work addition their daily routine the event of a natural disaster or pandemic. Thus, hospitals regularly conduct exercises education raise crisis awareness medical staff, preparing for quick during disaster.

The purpose of this paper is to propose a “disaster preparedness game for everyone” that can accumulate information on the problems and needs foreigners. Through practice at Nepalese school in Japan, unique people was accumulated. In addition, proposed had ripple effect, allowed learn while having fun improved their disaster awareness. From outcome research, accumulated "Disaster Preparedness G...

Çalışmanın temel hedefleri İzmir ili yerleşiklerinin afetler konusundaki bilgi ve bilinç düzeyinin ölçülmesi bu veriler ışığında kamu kurum kuruluşlarının yapacakları bölgesel afet planlarına sayısal oluşturmaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda çalışmada ulusal uluslararası alandaki tanımları açıklandıktan sonra yerleşikleriyle yapılan anket görüşmesinin sonuçlarına yer verilmiştir. Çalışma nitel araşt...

The importance of situation awareness systems in crisis-management scenarios cannot be emphasised enough. These systems enable entire disaster situations to be mapped out in a real-time fashion thereby aiding significantly in human decision-making and the necessary positioning, management and deployment of resources. As a result of the core role these systems play in responding to crises, it is...