Correspondence: Ashton Barnett-Vanes Sir Alexander Fleming Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ E-mail: [email protected] Disasters continue to pose substantial threats to human health worldwide. Knowledge in the principles of disaster medicine and of the wider function of the health system is therefore essential for health care teams who m...

OBJECTIVES Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative, spiral-shaped, urease-producing bacterium with multiple unipolar flagella. Humans are a major reservoir for H. pylori; however, there are no data on the prevalence of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients who have experienced natural disasters. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of H. pylori in dyspeptic patients who su...

There has been an increase in the occurrence of natural disasters and their impact has aroused the interest of many stakeholders to incorporate different strategies on disaster management. Although, disaster ceased many opportunities and lives, the lives of survivors do not cease in the disaster affected areas. This bespeaks the need to develop communities to cope up with challenges during post...

BACKGROUND Research conducted following natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes is crucial for improving relief interventions. Such research, however, poses ethical, methodological and logistical challenges for researchers. Oversight of disaster research also poses challenges for research ethics committees (RECs), in part due to the rapid turnaround needed to initiate resear...

RABSTACT A mobile ad hoc network is a set of mobile nodes connected and communicating with each other without any centralized computing and physical infrastructure. Due to the lack of physical infrastructure, unpredictable resources centralized computing, mobility of the nodes and highly dynamic topology, the QoS provisioning is a challenging task in mobile Adhoc sensor networks. Energy conserv...

Studies of the health aspect of disasters focus either on the epidemiology of disasters to define the causes and the progression from a hazard to a disaster, or the evaluations of interventions provided during any phase of a disaster. Epidemiological disaster research studies are undertaken for the purposes of: (1) understanding the mechanisms by which hazards evolve into a disaster; (2) determ...

This study aimed to further our understanding of a characteristic of Community Resilience known as Disaster Governance. Three attributes of Disaster Governance-redundancy, diversity, and overlap-were studied in four coastal towns in southern Chile that are at risk of tsunamis. Overall, we explored how different spatial structures of human settlements influence Disaster Governance. Using the Pro...

It is important to predict snow disasters to prevent and reduce hazards in pastoral areas. In this study, we build a potential risk assessment model based on a logistic regression of 33 snow disaster events that occurred in Qinghai Province. A simulation model of the snow disaster early warning is established using a back propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) method and is then validat...

When data disaster happens, the disaster recovery system (DRS) can respond automatically and real-time, and quickly restart the application system in the redundant device to keep the processing of the business. The construction principle of the disaster recovery system has been studied, and combining the base function and national standard of the hospital information system (HIS), the data disa...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidences and obstetric outcomes of women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures in Fukushima Prefecture before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. METHODS Information was collected and analyzed from 12,070 women who conceived with or without ART in Fukushima P...