In this paper, we propose an evolutionary emergency model of home network environment (EEMHNE). This model not only can do self-tuning to fit the home network environment but also detect the emergency event automatically. There are three modules in this model, namely, emergency process module (EPM), emergency knowledge base (EKB), and knowledge base evolution module (KBEM). EKB includes three c...

  Purpose: In recent years high explosive bomb attacks have been increasingly directed against   civil structures by various terrorist organizations. This paper describes a numerical method for   assessing the interaction of high explosive air blast within the complex geometrical type of a   congested urban environment.   Materials and Methods: The first step in predicting blast effects on a ta...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to conduct research in patient safety and in drug safety and effectiveness. However, such data sources have not been evaluated for their completeness with regard to adverse drug eve...

The rescue operations for emergency events usually require multiple emergency departments to cooperate with each other to provide effective and efficient resource allocation plans within a short time limit and dynamically adjust the plans as necessary. In the paper, an agent-based resource allocation approach is proposed to automatically allocate rescue resources to concurrent emergency events ...

Recently, the emergency preparedness of environmental disaster has been grown because of the climate change and growth of new technology in industry. The need to reduce the risk of major event of air pollution is of great concern. To ensure the quality of response management and reduce the loss in the air pollution event, it is necessary to design a reliable emergency response system. However, ...

OBJECTIVES To determine if forensic laboratory evidence could be recovered from alleged sexual abuse victims more than 24 hours after the event and to determine if age or historical factors could be used to determine the need for forensic evidence collections. DESIGN Retrospective study of hospital records matched with forensic evidence reports from the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory, Little...

VESPA (Vehicular Event Sharing with a mobile P2P Architecture) is a system designed for vehicles to share information in inter-vehicle ad-hoc networks. The originality of VESPA is to support any type of event (e.g., available parking spaces, accidents, emergency brakings, obstacles in the road, information relative to the coordination of vehicles in emergency situations, etc.) in the network. I...