Background and Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff are frequently faced with road traffic injury victims and also play role as various road users. This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of ED staff towards road safety at referral trauma hospitals of Tabriz. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 in the referral traum...

This paper introduces a rapidly deployable wireless network based on Low Altitude Platforms and portable land units to support disaster-relief activities, and to extend capacity during temporary mass events. The system integrates an amalgam of radio technologies such as LTE, WLAN and TETRA to provide heterogeneous communications in the deployment location. Cognitive radio is used for autonomous...

In this article, we propose a novel algorithm to obtain solution the clustering problem with an additional constraint of connectivity. This is achieved by suitably modifying K-Means include connectivity constraints. The modified involves repeated application watershed transform, and hence referred as iterated watersheds. Detailed analysis performed using toy examples. Iterated watersheds compar...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We aim to determine clinical and cost-effectiveness of a paramedic protocol for the care of older people who fall. METHODS We undertook a cluster randomized trial in 3 UK ambulance services between March 2011 and June 2012. We included patients aged 65 years or older after an emergency call for a fall, attended by paramedics based at trial stations. Intervention paramedics cou...

In this paper an emergency service vehicle (ESV) location problem has been considered in which it is assumed that each emergency call may require more than one ESV. In ESV location problem two factors should be known; the location of stations and the number of ESVs at each station. Hence, a nonlinear mixed integer programming model is presented in order to maximize the total response rate to th...

Abstract Metro stations are the hubs of urban rail transit, and large numbers people usually gather inside them. Various types emergency can lead to a need for evacuation. However, there few studies on proactively reducing evacuation risks through design safety (DFS) concept, these pose serious threats operational metro stations. Therefore, in this research, fragmented DFS pre-control measures ...

Many countries like Singapore are planning to introduce Electric Vehicles (EVs) to replace traditional vehicles to reduce air pollution and improve energy efficiency. The rapid development of EVs calls for efficient deployment of charging stations both for the convenience of EVs and maintaining the efficiency of the road network. Unfortunately, existing work makes unrealistic assumption on EV d...