The purpose of this study was to analyze, within a more extensive intervention program, the existence of positive emotions and positive coping in the refugees at the two largest shelters created after the earthquakes of El Salvador in January, 2001. One hundred and fifteen survivors were interviewed in the shelters about different aspects related to positive cognitions and emotions experienced ...

In disaster management, evacuation modeling is considered a useful visual tool to managers for reviewing current strategies, estimating the ability of shelters accommodate all evacuees, and developing route planning. Though there are several existing studies on in case an earthquake, research that integrates road blockades into simulations quite limited. From viewpoint, this aims develop with c...

Housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a critical problem facing LGBTQ+ people in United States. In addition, people, particularly transgender disproportionately suffer from homelessness face by homeless shelters identity. This both affect color. Note makes two contributions that would enable courts to grant meaningful relief these contexts. First, it a...

We conducted a retrospective study to examine trends in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and TB disease rates among homeless persons in shelters in New York, NY, 1992-2006. Although TB case rates fell from 1,502/100,000 population to 0, a 31% LTBI rate in 2006 shows the value of identifying and treating TB in the homeless.

We heuristically solve an evacuation problem with limited capacity shelters. An evolutionary learning algorithm is developed for the combined routeand shelter-assignment problem. It is complemented with a heuristic method for the fair minimization of shelter capacities. Different behavioral assumptions “fair” vs. “globally optimal”) are investigated. The proposed approaches are discussed in the...