This article draws on the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and data from a survey of senior public health emergency management professionals in Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex following Ebola outbreak to investigate coordination effectiveness during emergencies. Based study findings, recommends that having an identifiable lead agency, official statements local authorities, conducive ...

Many forts of South India are known for their art-historical aspects rather than planning and architectural [1]. The prevailing detailed survey reports available date back to 1802 when East Company carried out a documentation the acquired by Tipu Sultan establishing defense base [1][2][3]. inefficiency hold successful was neglected hence turned functionally obsolete These deserted which possess...

We study the interaction between a fleet of electric, self-driving vehicles servicing on-demand transportation requests (referred to as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand, or AMoD, system) and the electric power network. We propose a joint linear model that captures the coupling between the two systems stemming from the vehicles’ charging requirements. The model subsumes existing network flow models...

[1] We present measurements of organic aerosol (OA) in urban plumes from Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth as well as in industrial plumes in the Houston area during TexAQS-2006. Consistent with the TexAQS-2000 study, measurements show greater amount of aerosol mass downwind of the industrial centers compared to urban areas. This is likely due to higher emission and processing of volatile organic c...

1It is generally recognized that the environmental buoyancy and vertical wind shear have important effect on the characteristics of convective storms. Parameters and indices, such as the bulk Richardson number (BRN) and environmental storm -relative helicity, have been commonly used in both research and operations to characterize the environmental properties important to thunderstorm developmen...

PURPOSE To assess through-focus polychromatic image sharpness of five US Food and Drug Administration-approved presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses (IOLs) through a range of object vergences and pupil diameters utilizing an image sharpness algorithm. METHODS A 1951 US Air Force resolution target was imaged through a Crystalens AO (AO) (Bausch & Lomb Surgical, Aliso Viejo, California), Cry...