We present a test-bed for Emergency Management Simulations by contrasting two prototypes we have built, CAVIAR and Reverse 111. We outline the desirable design principles that guide our choices for simulating emergencies and implement these ideas in a modular system, which utilizes proactive crowd-sourcing to enable emergency response centers to contact civilians co-located with an emergency, t...

The effect of sediment feeding was investigated in the case live-bed scour around circular bridge piers under flood waves to provide contributions for future experimental procedures. Circular three different diameters were tested a long rectangular flume containing uniform layer 25 cm thick, by generating 7 triangular hydrographs with durations ranging between 6 and 20 minutes peak discharges v...

The purpose of this paper is to examine problems associated with display (playback) of live continuous media under varying conditions for an internetwork of workstations running a general purpose operating system such as Unix. Under the assumption that the network cannot guarantee the required bounds on delay and jitter, there is a need to accommodate the delay jitter in the end systems. Variou...

Scour around non-circular cylinders has seldom been studied before. This paper aims to numerically investigate the flow behaviour and evolution of local scour two single square-shaped piers with 90 ° (square pier) 45 (diamond orientation angles under steady-current live-bed conditions. For this purpose, a coupled approach between hydrodynamic morphodynamic model is developed validated against e...

OBJECTIVE To resolve uncertainty as to the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) associated with sleeping in bed with your baby if neither parent smokes and the baby is breastfed. DESIGN Bed sharing was defined as sleeping with a baby in the parents' bed; room sharing as baby sleeping in the parents' room. Frequency of bed sharing during last sleep was compared between babies who died o...

OBJECTIVE The Alaska Division of Public Health has stated that infants may safely share a bed for sleeping if this occurs with a nonsmoking, unimpaired caregiver on a standard, adult, non-water mattress. Because this policy is contrary to recent national recommendations that discourage any bed sharing, we examined 13 years of Alaskan infant deaths that occurred while bed sharing to assess the c...

For many insect species, group living provides physiological and behavioral beneÞts, including faster development. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius L.) live in aggregations composed of eggs, nymphs, and adults of various ages. Our aim was to determine whether bed bug nymphs reared in groups develop faster than solitary nymphs.We reared Þrst instars either in isolation or in groups from hatching to a...

Forty disposable medical shoe covers were briefly exposed to the surgical floor and were found contaminated by a large number of bacteria. This study also demonstrated live bacteria, including pathogens attached to contaminated shoe covers, can be subsequently transferred to surgical bedsheets. We suggest an infection control policy should be considered to prevent patients returning to their be...

For many insect species, group living provides physiological and behavioral benefits, including faster development. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius L.) live in aggregations composed of eggs, nymphs, and adults of various ages. Our aim was to determine whether bed bug nymphs reared in groups develop faster than solitary nymphs. We reared first instars either in isolation or in groups from hatching t...

OBJECTIVE Cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for binge eating disorder (BED) is traditionally evaluated using clinical interviews and questionnaires. These retrospective assessment methods are discussed to be problematic due to memory recall error. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) might be promising for gathering ecologically valid and reliable data. METHOD We assessed the feasibility ...