Many coastal communities throughout the world are threatened by local (or near-field) tsunamis that could inundate low-lying areas in a matter of minutes after generation. Although the hazard and sustainability literature often frames vulnerability conceptually as a multidimensional issue involving exposure, sensitivity, and resilience to a hazard, assessments often focus on one element or do n...

The primary treatment of hemorrhagic shock is control of the source of bleeding as soon as possible and fluid replacement. In controlled hemorrhagic shock (CHS) where the source of bleeding has been occluded fluid replacement is aimed toward normalization of hemodynamic parameters. In uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UCHS) in which bleeding has temporarily stopped because of hypotension, vasocon...

The need to evacuate an ICU or operating theatre complex during a fire other emergency is rare event but one potentially fraught with difficulty: Not only there risk that patients may come harm also staff be injured and unable work. Designing newly-built refurbished ICUs suites opportunity incorporate mandatory safety features improve the management outcomes of such emergencies: These include w...

O n September 16, 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused widespread flooding through a largely rural area of North Carolina. More than 40 of 100 counties experienced some flooding (Fig 1); the most severe was in the eastern third of the state. Interstate highways and divided 4-lane US highways, as well as hundreds of state highways and local roads, were closed at multiple sites because of flooding or was...

INTRODUCTION As Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans in August 2005, the city's mandatory evacuation prompted the exodus of an estimated 80% of its 485,000 residents. According to estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at least 18 states subsequently hosted more than 200,000 evacuees. HYPOTHESIS/PROBLEM In this case study, "Operation Helping Hands" (OHH)...

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer-reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature on demographic, storm-related, and psychosocial correlates of natural disaster evacuation behavior...

Etta D. Pisano , Henry Fuchs, Andrei State, Mark A. Livingston, Gentaro Hirota, William F. Garrett and Mary C. Whitton a Departments of Radiology, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, USA b Computers Science, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel H...

In this paper, performance-based fire-protection design is used for the fire-safety of public amenities with restrained personnel activities. these places, tourists’ activities are constrained in a limited space such as cockpit moving along track. Since it another typical scenario problem that cannot fully comply current mandatory codes and regulations, simulation analysis order to ensure fire ...