Disaster recovery in urban environments is a complex process. Because of high population densities and the presence of many societal and infrastructural dependencies, urban areas are prone to severe loss of self-reliance in case of a disaster. Rebuilding such areas to a self-sustaining state is a daunting task, and requires a high degree of community effort and comprehensive knowledge about the...

" The capacity of public universities to meet Australia's higher education needs " and covers some of the same material of Chapman (2001) and Chapman and Salvage (2001).

objective: patients with conversion disorder may be seen by different specialists in various clinics and emergency situations. however, there are not sufficient studies on the most effective treatment for this disabling illness. methods: in a clinical trial, we compared four treatment strategies muscle relaxation, suggestion, hypnosis and intravenous diazepam infusion, in 80 patients with acute...

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Data presented in this study indicate that there is considerable variability in spike recoveries between three different kinetic LAL methods as used for the testing of a variety of parenteral products. However, successful spike recoveries were observed for each of the thirteen products under test on at least one of the three kinetic methods used, suggesting that problems caused by spike recover...

The OraCDP disaster recovery system uses CDP disaster recovery technology based on the combination of block level, combining with the communication coupling between the underlying I/O and Oracle database. The experimental results show that the OraCDP system can not only maintain the normal operation of the original system without any negative influence, but also guarantee the recovery of data a...

The earthquake had hit Muzaffarabad on October 8, 2005. Being one of the dreadful events, it badly devastated the area. In addition, the post earthquake scenario raised fears of pressure on forestry resources, especially for reconstruction phase. It was, therefore, essential to assess the availability of salvage wood to prevent/or reduce the pressure on forestry resources. Thus, the study was l...

As one of the most influential and beneficial developments today, Information Technology (IT) is quickly transforming business infrastructures and reshaping the way how people are affected in context to how they work and live. In order to meet the fast and changing trends in the 21st century, Information Technology should be redefined in five major areas, i.e., Power of Computing, Internet-work...

During automated process execution semantic activity failures may frequently occur, e.g., when a vehicle transporting a container has a breakdown. So far there are no applicable solutions to overcome such exceptional situations. Often the only possibility is to cancel and roll back respective process instances what is not always possible and more often not desired. In this paper we contribute t...