Despite its growing economic and political importance, this is the first study in economics to investigate public opinion United States regarding both allocation of government disaster aid stricken households communities as well total expenditures by on such aid. This also bridge a gap previous research disasters comparing contrasting our results related behavioral studies from science, social ...

Disaster areas are a typical usage scenario for mobile wireless communication systems (e.g. ad-hoc networks). Performance evaluation in mobile wireless communication systems is mainly done using simulation. Simulation results strongly depend on the traffic models used. Today, the traffic mainly used in disaster areas is voice traffic. In this paper, we present measurements of voice traffic done...

Attacks on humans by wild animals causing fatal injuries are not uncommon in rural and forest areas of India. But death occurring due to attack by a wild boar is rare. As the victims of boar attack are usually recovered from dense forest areas, the investigating officers could be misled as to the nature of infliction of these multiple, fatal penetrating injuries to a possible homicide. Unlike t...

The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) develops and provides access to health information resources and technology for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. DIMRC focuses on maintaining access to health information at all phases of disasters, developing innovative products and services for emergency personnel, conducting research to support disaster health informat...

Many people who believe that abortion may often be justified by appeal to the pregnant woman’s interests also believe that a woman’s infliction of significant but nonlethal injury on her fetus can seldom be justified by appeal to her interests. Yet the second of these beliefs can seem to cast doubt on the first. For the view that the infliction of prenatal injury is seriously morally objectiona...

Sir, the big flooding in Thailand in 2011 is one of the problematic flooding in Asia. It causes several destroying to many things in the disaster areas. An important concern is on the effect on the setting with the radioactive elements usage. In Thailand, there are some places with radioactive elements including to the university, hospital as well as radioactive research center. Luckily, ...