Regional Medium Security Units: Solution or Disaster?

Disaster Preparedness in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Disasters disproportionally affect vulnerable, technology-dependent people, including preterm and critically ill newborn infants. It is important for health care providers to be aware of and prepared for the potential consequences of disasters for the NICU. Neonatal intensive care personnel can provide specialized expertise for their hospital, community, and regional emergency preparedness plan...

Commentary: Cloud computing - A security problem or solution?

The move to cloud computing is the next stage of an unstoppable trend in the breakdown of the enterprise perimeter, both technically and organisationally. This new paradigm presents a number of security challenges that still need to be resolved but sufficient change in the IT environment has already happened so that most organisations are working in a transitional state where security exploits ...

Iran's Role In Energy Security At Regional And Global Levels

SCADA Security - Slowly Circling a Disaster Area

SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) networks control much of the industrialised nations production and supply complexes. Various government reports and investigations have highlighted the vulnerability of these systems. Many of these systems are on private networks which are increasingly being connected to systems that are accessible from other networks such as the Internet. SCADA ...

Goal programming-based post-disaster decision making for allocation and scheduling the rescue units in natural disaster with time-window

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause enormous harm during each year. To reduce casualties and economic losses in the response phase, rescue units must be allocated and scheduled efficiently, such that it is a key issues in emergency response. In this paper, a multi-objective mix integer nonlinear programming model (MOMINLP) is proposed to minimize sum of weight...