Widespread crises require the deployment of a crisis team, to coordinate the disaster assistance. Because of their low frequency of occurrence and the extensive assignment of volunteers, often only less practical knowledge in managing widespread crises are available on demand. If such a crisis occurs, the gained knowledge must be quickly shared within the team. Current crisis management systems...

a Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica y Estadística Médica, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Sassari, Unidad de Investigación, Formación Médica y Desarrollo Profesional, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy b Centro Colaborador con la OMS para la Tuberculosis y Trastornos Pulmonares, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Centro de Asistencia e Investigación, Tradate, Italy c IdISPa-FISIB, Hospital Unive...

Social media are increasingly being used as a source of information during crises such as natural disasters and civil unrests. Nevertheless, there have been concerns about the quality and truthfulness of user-generated information. This study seeks to understand how users form trust in information on social media. Based on the elaboration likelihood model and the motivation, opportunity, and ab...

Social media are increasingly being used as a source of information during crises such as natural disasters and civil unrests. Nevertheless, there have been concerns about the quality and truthfulness of user-generated information. This study seeks to understand how users form trust in information on social media. Based on the elaboration likelihood model and the motivation, opportunity, and ab...

Social media often plays a central role in crisis informatics as it is an important source for assessing, understanding, and locating crises quickly and accurately. In addition, social media enables actors to react more effectively and efficiently when managing crises. However, enablers of crisis information management have not been carved out explicitly in a systematic view. Therefore, we perf...

UNLABELLED Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disease in African-Americans, characterized by recurrent painful vaso-occlusive crises. Medical therapies for controlling or preventing crises are limited because of efficacy and/or toxicity. This is a randomized, controlled, single-crossover protocol of hypnosis for managing pain in SCD patients. Participants receive hypnosis from...

The simultaneous determination of financial default and political crises is studied in an open economy model. Political crises accompany default in equilibrium because of an information transmission conflict between the government and the public. Multiple equilibria are possible: if foreign lenders are pessimistic about the country’s stability, they demand a high interest on the debt, exacerbat...

I present a general equilibrium model of banking in which financial crises can be due to panics (i.e., coordination failures that give rise to multiple equilibria) or fundamentals. Crises are systemic, in the sense that many banks are insolvent and subject to runs. A financial crisis is also characterized by a flight to safety-liquidity, and by sales of assets by banks at a depressed price, tha...

Russian-American relations in the modern era have gone through several stages, dominated by nature of conflict and competition, more than cooperation, which has not yet risen to level strategic partnership between two parties. If US-Soviet had left an impact on international balance power during Cold War, collapse Soviet Union birth Russian Federation ended what was known at time as start a new...

BACKGROUND Patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) are prone to recurrent pain crises related to red blood cell sickling and vaso-occlusion with subsequent tissue hypoxia. Alveolar hypoxia has been shown to be associated with entrapment of sickle cells in the pulmonary microcirculation which may propagate a cycle of further hypoxemia and sickling. Pulmonary complications are common in sickle cel...