In recent years, perception of flood risks has become an important topic to policy makers concerned with risk management and safety issues. Knowledge of the public risk perception is considered a crucial aspect in modern flood risk management as it steers the development of effective and efficient flood mitigation strategies. This study aimed at gaining insight into the perception of flood risk...

This paper summarizes our effort towards managing the multi-disciplinary disaster-related data from the Great East Japan Earthquake, which happened on March 11, 2011 off the coast of northeast Japan. This earthquake caused the largest tsunami in the recorded history of Japan, killed many people along the coast, and caused a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, which continues to affect a large area o...

This paper examines in the perspective of performance how politicians in political interviews rely on linguistic strategies to grapple with the conflict between being uncooperative and being polite. Three pairs of question-answer regarding North Korea nuclear crisis between the spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry and the reporters were illustrated. As the illustration shows, the spokesman di...

This research was conducted to examine the role of sociocultural factors on depression among elderly of twin cities (Rawalpindi and Islamabad) of Pakistan. 310 older adults participated in the present study. Through convenient sampling technique, face to face interview was carried out for data collection. Urdu translated Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form and demographic sheet were used to t...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by the t(9;22) translocation coding for the chimeric protein p210 BCR-ABL. The tumor suppressor PTEN plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of CML chronic phase, through non genomic loss of function mechanisms, such as protein down-regulation and impaired nuclear/cytoplasmic shuttling. Here we demonstrate that BCR-...

crisis management, as one of the key activities in strategic management has significant importance. one of the major requirements of crisis management is the high level of readiness and qualification of human resources responsible for crisis management. the focus of this paper is on presenting a crisis management model with human resources approach. first, we reviewed the literature and extract...

if crisis defined as time of danger or concern, and regard it as a situation which getting out of it is difficult, without a doubt, the most critical juncture of the history is the decade of the 60 ah. the model of crisis management demanded a comprehensive plan that would be observed the best insights and techniques to manage the crisis. we call this program, strategelogy of crisis management....

As atoms get colder, they start to behave more like waves and less like particles. Cool a cloud of identical atoms so cold that the wave of each atom starts to overlap with the wave of its neighbor atom, and all of a sudden you wind up with a sort of quantum identity crisis known as Bose-Einstein condensation. How do we get something that cold? And what is the nature of the strange goop that re...

The theoretical literature suggests a positive relation between financial leverage and asset returns, but the empirical evidence on this effect is mixed. We examine leverage effects in public real estate markets across eight countries with active public real estate markets. Cross-country public real estate markets provide an interesting testing ground given the significant use of leverage in re...