background: short golden time is important to save the injured in earthquake and to start search and rescue (sar) operation as soon as possible in affected regions. this study evaluated application of geographic information system (gis) for sar operation in rigan town, kerman province, which was hit by an earthquake of 6.3 richter scale on december 12, 2010 at 22:12. materials and methods: a gi...

Today, with the growing dependence on technology and increasing population growth, the impact of man-made and natural disasters, on human lives and financial losses, is greater than ever. Though some businesses are investing in business continuity planning, others are still reluctant. “An estimated 80 percent of companies without a well-conceived and tested business continuity plan, go out of b...

Any large language processing software relies in its operation on heuristic decisions concerning the strategy of processing. These decisions are usually "hard-wired" into the software in the form of handcrafted heuristic rules, independent of the nature of the processed texts. We propose an alternative, adaptive approach in which machine learning techniques learn the rules from examples of sent...

Engineers of safety-critical systems have a duty to address ethical issues that may arise in the development, assessment, operation and maintenance of these systems. Dealing with ethical dilemmas during safety risk assessment is particularly challenging, especially when making and justifying decisions concerning risk acceptability. This is particularly complicated by organisational issues and c...

INTRODUCTION Discontinuity of care at the interface between inpatient and outpatient management can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Appropriate communication and flow of information is indispensable to ensure continuity of care. Consequently, the aim of this study was to assess general practitioners' (GPs) experiences of cooperation with a university hospital, as well as their needs ...

in this paper, using the tools involving measures of noncompactness and darbo fixed point theorem forcondensing operator, we study the existence of solutions for a large class of generalized nonlinear quadraticfunctional integral equations. also, we show that solutions of these integral equations are locally attractive.furthermore, we present an example to show the efficiency and usefulness of ...

In December, 2010, Canada's 6 year old Assisted Human Reproduction Act was successfully challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada. There may be important implications for public health and the evolution of reproductive technologies in this country.