Predicting disasters

"Breaking" Disasters: Predicting and Characterizing the Global News Value of Natural and Man-made Disasters

Due to their often unexpected nature, natural and man-made disasters are difficult to monitor and detect for journalists and disaster management response teams. Journalists are increasingly relying on signals from social media to detect such stories in their early stage of development. Twitter, which features a vast network of local news outlets, is a major source of early signal for disaster d...

A Model for Predicting Hospitalized Children Appropriate for Early Discharge during Disasters

Background: Early Discharge is one of the most well-known strategies to increase the hospital capacity during disasters. The key issue in applying this strategy is recognizing the patients appropriate for early discharge. Therefore, the current study was conducted to estimate a model for predicting hospitalized children appropriate for early discharge during disasters based on the attending phy...

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

Natural Disasters

Aortic disasters.

TAD and AAA are two of the highest risk disease entities in emergency medicine. Emergency physicians should be vigilant in their approach to patients who have symptoms compatible with acute aortic disease. In chest and abdominal pain presentations, the chart must look like there was a search for the TAD and AAA. By having a sound knowledge of atypical cases;, having an appreciation for how subt...