The perception of physician shortage in Canada is widespread. Absolute shortages and relative discrepancies, both specialty-wise and in urban-rural distribution, have been a daunting policy challenge. International Medical Graduates (IMGs) have been at the core of mitigating this problem, especially as long as shortage of physicians in rural areas is concerned. Considering such recruitment as h...

and school staff. therefore, it is essential to pay continuous and specific attention to safety problems in schools. we identified 20 critical success factors (csfs) in the current study based on previous researches in order to achieve effective school safety. then these factors validated by 33 governmental high school administrators. this survey was conducted in tehran, among 96 governmental h...

Received: December 19, 2016 Revised: February 06, 2017 Accepted: March 20, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: Seismic isolation has been proven to be an efficient approach to seismic retrofitting of structures based on the concept of reducing the seismic forces by lengthening the structural fundamental vibration period. However, superstructures may collide with each other under seismic excitation as ...

Digital but physical surrogates are tangible representations of remote people, typically members of small intimate teams, positioned within an office and under digital control. Surrogates selectively collect and present awareness information about the people they represent. They also react to people’s explicit and implicit physical actions: a person’s explicit acts include grasping and moving t...

Climate change is occurring in the Southeastern United States, and one manifestation is changes in frequency and intensity of extreme events. A vulnerability assessment is performed in the state of Georgia (United States) at the county level from 1975 to 2012 in decadal increments. Climate change vulnerability is typically measured as a function of exposure to physical phenomena (e.g., droughts...

Maintaining the functionality, productivity, and safety of communities necessitates the seismic reliability of lifeline infrastructure networks. However, assessing the reliability of an infrastructure network is a nontrivial task due to the variability of ground motion and the complexity of the response of the network resulting from that ground motion. Even more challenging is the task of ident...

Open-source climate risk assessment platforms allow for accessible and efficient estimation of current future by combining information about hazard, exposure vulnerability. Such assessments require making a number choices, such as which hazard data source to use, the approach taken represent As these choices are, some extent, subjective, when assessing informing adaptation decisions, alternativ...

Article history: Received 2 August 2012 Received in revised form 26 July 2013 Accepted 28 August 2013 Available online xxxx This paper presents a system for analysis of municipal Critical Infrastructures, which offers integrated tools for target analysis, hazard scenario simulations and spatial analysis within a remotely accessible Web-based Geographic Information System. The system has been ap...

introduction vulnerability is a term used to show the amount and extent of damage and the losses caused by natural disasters in different communities (social, formal-physical, etc.). vulnerabilities is identified as the sensitivity of the environment against the hazards. from among natural disasters, earthquakes can have a vast scope of losses for desert regions. therefore, in order to reduce a...