We are designing a system to forecast rainfall-induced landslides in Italy. The system is based on a set of rainfall thresholds for the possible initiation of landslides, and an ensemble of small scale landslide hazard and risk zonations. Rainfall thresholds include existing and new, national, regional and local empirical thresholds of the intensity-duration (ID) and normalized-ID types. The ne...

When a disaster occurs, it is for governments to provide the leadership, civil defense, security, evacuation, and public welfare. The medical aspects of a disaster account for less than 10% of resource and personnel expenditure. Hospitals and health care provider teams respond to unexpected occurrences such as explosions, earthquakes, floods, fires, war, or the outbreak of an infectious epidemi...

The determination of areas exposed to new eruptive events in volcanic regions is crucial for diminishing consequences in terms of human causalities and damages of material properties. In this paper, we illustrate a methodology for defining flexible high-detailed lava invasion hazard maps which is based on an robust and efficient Cellular Automata model for simulating lava flows. We also present...

Imagine that you are a parent who has just filed a negligence suit on behalf of your child. Although not a party to the suit, the defense seeks the release of your personal medical, psychiatric, and school records to challenge your child’s claims of causation. It is not unreasonable that your initial reaction would be surprise or even shock given that such practices threaten to invade your most...

Turkish defense industry and policy makers seek effective and successful system development programs by implementing a validation mechanism to verify the maturity of new technologies being developed in national laboratories and industry. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) developed by NASA as a general metric of technology advancement and it has been widely accepted as a systems engineering and...

PURPOSE We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between social network characteristics and street youths' shelter use, a determinant of health outcomes for homeless youth. METHODS We analyzed interview data from 138 street youth recruited through venue-based sampling in San Francisco, to assess the cross-sectional relationship between shelter use in youths' social network...

S OF CURRENT LITERATURE: Pediatric Nutrition; Folic Acid; Nutrition and Civil Defense; Items of General Interest. PUBLISHED BIMONTHLY BY THE NUTRITIONAL PRESS ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA A. P. MEIKLEJOHN, M.D., Edinburgh, Scotland Sn EDWARD MELLANBY, London, England TlteJournal ofCl dNi&Wo AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REPORTING THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF OUR NEWER KNOWLEDGE

Chapter III Towards Civil-Military Coordination During Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction Efforts ................................................................................................................... 28 Ranjeev Mittu, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Suleyman Guleyupoglu, ITT Corporation, USA William Barlow, Office of Secretary of Defense Networks and Inform...