the awareness of administrative organization of rescue and relief operation from spatial and temporal dimensions is pre requirement of rescue and relief. this subject and existence of accessible transportation networks that can save their performance after emergency situations are the most important parameters in efficiency of rescue and relief operation. the position of firefighting stations a...

In this paper, we consider the problem of emergency response resource storage locations and capacities. Resources are important for disaster relief operations in coping with natural and manmade emergencies. In order to enhance the ability of response to disasters, different levels of reserve system need to be set up for holding relief resources. These emergency storages may have different capac...

Cognitive Radio (CR) is the future of radio systems giving authorities and end users unprecedented capabilities, and completely new services expectations. This paper aims at introducing an evolutionary novel Cognitive Radio adaptation engine architecture inspired from theories developed in cognitive sciences. Adaptation is a fundamental feature of CR necessary for many applications and use case...

affected persons in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, was fully covered. The generous response of donors, backed up by a similar gesture from local communities, allowed all aspects of the operation (emergency relief, post-emergency relief, and rehabilitation) to be effected. Problems with communications and lack of Disaster Preparedness know-how were surmounted and valuable less...

with medical and relief supplies, Red Cross volunteers, and a search-and-rescue team including emergency physicians to help Americans on the Gulf Coast who were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane struck Aug. 29, levelling huge swaths of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, and forcing the evacuation of New Orleans. US officials declared a national public health emergency and Presiden...

Emergency resource is important for people evacuation and property rescue when accident occurs. The relief efforts could be promoted by a reasonable emergency resource allocation schedule in advance. As the marine environment is complicated and changeful, the place, type, severity of maritime accident is uncertain and stochastic, bringing about dynamic demand of emergency resource. Considering ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the circumstances surrounding the Asian tsunami emergency of 2004 and to propose a relief logistics model that suggests an alternative response mechanism to those which are currently in place. The tsunami waves that hit Thailand on December 26th 2004 and the chaos that followed highlighted the very low level of preparedness on the part of the Thai authori...

Recently, reports have suggested that chronic cannabis abuse can result in cyclical vomiting, or cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. With the increasing prevalence of cannabis use in the United States, this syndrome may be encountered in the emergency department. The authors describe a case of a 30-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with diffuse abdominal pain, nausea, and int...

BACKGROUND Less is known about the prevalence of pain in prehospital emergency medicine than about pain in the emergency department. Objectives. To estimate the prehospital prevalence of pain and to identify the factors associated with oligoanalgesia. METHODS The mobile intensive care units of the emergency services of a Paris suburb conducted this prospective study. All consecutive patients ...

Various disasters with serious results are reported and happen around our lives. Most of them are unconventional contingency events. Emergency relief is an important activity dealing with the disasters to transfer a large number of materials to the destroyed places for casualties and reconstruction for the country, even the world. Container multimodal transportation will play an important role ...