Smart Grid-The intelligent electricity grid empowers bi-directional communication between utility and its consumers. Unlike traditional grid, smart grid encourages consumers to participate in demand response program. Demand Response program allows the consumers to reduce or shift the energy usage from peak to offpeak period. This potentially offers energy efficiency. In this paper, we have prop...

Abstract At the early stage of public health emergencies, when conventional medical reserves prepared are insufficient, and productivity could temporarily not meet surge in demand, donations can be used to cover excess demand for supplies a large extent. This paper explicitly considers allocation problem limited during emergency, incorporating uncertainty donated priorities care centers. The is...

Emergency preparedness is an expectation of public health organizations and an expectation of individual public health practitioners. Organizational performance standards for public health agencies have been developed during the last several years, providing a foundation for the development of competency statements to guide individual practice in public health program areas, like emergency resp...

Systemic bacterial infection induces a hematopoietic response program termed "emergency granulopoiesis" that is characterized by increased de novo bone marrow (BM) neutrophil production. How loss of local immune control and bacterial dissemination is sensed and subsequently translated into the switch from steady-state to emergency granulopoiesis is, however, unknown. Using tissue-specific myelo...

Emergency resource is important for people evacuation and property rescue when accident occurs. The relief efforts could be promoted by a reasonable emergency resource allocation schedule in advance. As the marine environment is complicated and changeful, the place, type, severity of maritime accident is uncertain and stochastic, bringing about dynamic demand of emergency resource. Considering ...

The interest in the implementation of demand response programs for domestic customers within the framework of smart grids is increasing, both from the point of view of scientific research and from the point of view of real applications through pilot projects. A fundamental element of any demand response program is the introduction at customer level of a device, generally named energy box, able ...

BACKGROUND Ageing population trends create a strong imperative for healthcare systems to develop models of care that reduce dependence on hospital services. People living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) currently have high rates of presentation to emergency departments. The care provided in these environments may not optimally satisfy the needs of frail older persons from RACFs. O...

The primary objective of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program (IBAPP) is to administer and deliver continuing-education classes relevant to bioterrorism preparedness to healthcare professionals in rural Idaho. This program will address the gaps and deficiencies in current curricula identified through our in-depth needs assessment data. In Idaho, the current training methodo...

iran's health system is expanding the disaster and emergency higher education programs over the country to enhance the capacity of human resources for effective and efficient disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. in this article we present an overview about the initiatives and progress of disaster and emergency health higher education in iran. following the bam earthquake, i...