A Chatbot System to Support Mine Safety Procedures during Natural Disasters

Cancer care during natural disasters.

W hen natural disasters occur, everyone is focused on survival. But for cancer patients, this challenge is all the more arduous — because hospitals and other health care infrastructures may be destroyed, wiping out their medical records, and both physicians and patients may be forced to flee. “Cancer patients are especially susceptible to the disruptions that natural disasters can cause,” said ...

A Robust P2P Information Sharing System and its Application to Communication Support in Natural Disasters

To provide the stable and continuous network services in cases of large-scale natural disasters, computers must use extremely limited network and computational resources effectively without imposing additional administrative burdens. The authors propose a P2P Information Sharing System for affected areas based on our proposed structured P2P network called the Well-distribution Algorithm for an ...

Planning for Medical Emergency Transportation Vehicles during Natural Disasters

One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordingly, a number of casualties and injured people have to be known during a disaster. Obtaining an ...

The Impact of Natural Disasters: Simplified Procedures and Open Problems

A natural hazard is a geophysical, atmospheric or hydrological event (e.g., earthquake, landslide, tsunami, windstorm, flood or drought) that has the potential to cause harm or loss, while a natural disaster is the occurrence of an extreme hazardous event that impacts on communities causing damage, disruption and casualties, and leaving the affected communities unable to function normally witho...

Natural disasters and community resilience: A framework for support