While most of the focus is currently on communities and the health care service sector to have plans and supplies in place for mass victim decontamination, it is just as important for facilities to have proper decontamination (or "decon") procedures in place for emergencies that could occur at their facilities. Written decontamination procedures are required under the Occupational Safety and He...

This paper focuses on addressing uncertainties in disasters when considering lateral transshipment opportunities for pre-positioning relief supplies. To deal with uncertain demands the problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic programming model, which decides simultaneously locations of facilities and allocations supplies to demand nodes. Meanwhile, different damage levels caused by are c...

Emergency contraception is used to prevent pregnancy in the event of unprotected sexual intercourse. The most common methods of emergency contraception are combination and progestin-only oral contraceptive pills. They are effective, safe, and have few side effects. Most physicians are aware of emergency contraception, yet it is not widely prescribed or used. The American Medical Association and...

It has been found that air terminal layouts could affect ventilation performance in a room. As a new air distribution system, stratum ventilation was proposed to accommodate elevated room temperatures. Its performance with various air terminal layouts was investigated by numerical method in this research. Totally four different exhausts locations were studied to determine the optimal exhaust lo...

Bacterial indicators and bacteriophages suggested as potential indicators of water quality were determined by public laboratories in water from springs, household water wells, and rural and metropolitan water supplies in north-eastern Spain. Indicator bacteria were detected more frequently than bacteriophages in springs, household water wells and rural water supplies. In contrast, positive bact...

Reasonable planning and construction of emergency shelters is great significance in improving the ability cities to prevent mitigate disasters ensuring urban public safety. From perspective needs evacuees, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for service function evacuation places four aspects: effectiveness, accessibility, safety rescue responsiveness. This takes central city Songy...

Abstract In this study, we developed a vehicle allocation model that can meet the requirements and cost best, data related to number of calls in each zone, variability required respond different types calls. First, several indicators are extracted quantify advantages station construction hierarchical analysis method TOPSIS used score then select stations need be built according score. Subsequen...

Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) are emergency power sources which have wide spread application in critical equipments, such as computers, automated process controllers, and hospital instruments. With the rapid growth in the use of high-efficiency power converters, more and more electrical loads are nonlinear and generate harmonics. It is a big challenge for a UPS to maintain a high-qualit...

INTRODUCTION Considerable morbidity, mortality, and costs are associated with household emergency situations involving natural hazards and fires. Many households are poorly prepared for such emergency situations, and little is known about the psychosocial aspects of household emergency preparedness. PROBLEM The aim of this study is to promote a better understanding of homeowners' experiences ...