We developed a method for evaluating the effect of disaster countermeasures using two indices: volume freight transportation on railway network during disruptions caused by natural disasters and sum costs borne operators restoration periods. The evaluation aims to support train operator decision-making regarding implementation countermeasures. A case study applying demonstrated that could provi...

During several recent disasters hospital routines have been severely disrupted as a result of invasions by representatives of the media. Reporters, photographers, and crews from television and radio stations have all vied with each other to be the first with detailed reports, pictures, and exclusive interviews. The problems arising from the "clamour for information from relatives, press, televi...

introduction: disaster occurs almost daily in the world and increases the issue of it because of high volume of population, industrialization and acts of terrorism, my country is one of the most unexpected event areas of the world. health care systems encounter special challenges in disaster management, that they include triage and treatment a large number victims and also victims' information ...

In this article, we propose and evaluate a Mega Disaster Crisis Management System consisting of the Disaster Information Registration System and the Disaster Information Sharing System. The former categorizes various disaster information on real time reported from residents and the disaster related institutions. This registration system processes a flood of disaster information rapidly. The lat...

OBJECTIVE Open-source information consists of a range of publicly available material, including various periodicals, news reports, journal publications, photographs, and maps. Although intelligence agencies regularly use open-source information in developing strategically important intelligence, the disaster community has yet to evaluate its use for planning or research purposes. This study exa...

The World Health Organisation defines a disaster as any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life, deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community. (1) A disaster can be either natural (rain, flood, cyclone, storm, land slides, earthquake and volcanoes) or man-made (war, rio...

Recognizing seismic waves immediately is very important for the realization of efficient disaster prevention. Generally these systems consist of a network of seismic detectors that send real time data to a central server. The server elaborates the data and attempts to recognize the first signs of an earthquake. The current problem with this approach is that it is subject to false alarms. A crit...

iodine deficiency has been considered in iran since 20 years ago and has been acknowledged recently. we studied iodine deficiency disorders in 1618 neishabourian students. 60% of children had palpable and 2.5% had visible goiters. height and weight of these children were lower than international and tehranian children but higher than isfahanian children. hormone studies showed increased t4, dec...