This paper discusses the design of a social media crisis mapping platform for decision making in natural disasters where tweets are analysed to achieve situational awareness during earthquake and tsunami events. A qualitative end user evaluation is undertaken on our first prototype system to get feedback from practitioners working in the field of hazard detection and early warning. Participatin...

As part of its expanding role, particularly as an agent of peace building, the United Nations (UN) actively participates in the implementation of measures to prevent and manage crisis/disaster situations. The purpose of such an approach is to empower the victims, protect the environment, rebuild communities, and create employment. However, real world crisis management situations are complex giv...

We present a 21-year-old woman with an oculogyric crisis following the administration of clebopride. Based on the temporal relationship of the administration of clebopride to the occurrence of the event and the absence of other possible etiologies, clebopride is implicated as the cause of this acute oculogyric crisis, despite the fact that a cause-and-effect relationship cannot be confirmed.

psychoeducational workshop that was rapidly developed and disseminated to an affected community in response to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The workshop provided conceptually, empirically, and experientially grounded training to community and educational personnel on responses to disaster and trauma, resilience, tolerance, and compassion fatigue. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Inter...

Online social media has become an integral part of every Internet users’ life. It has given common people a platform and forum to share information, post their opinions and promote campaigns. The threat of exploitation of social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc. by malicious entities, becomes crucial during a crisis situation, like bomb blasts or natural calamities such as earthquakes and floo...

Se considera que una economı́a entra en recesión técnica cuando ha experimentado por dos trimestres consecutivos un crecimiento negativo del producto interior bruto (PIB). Las crisis económicas, con frecuencia precedidas por crisis financieras, aumentan el desempleo y el empobrecimiento de las familias. Los economistas estudian con gran atención la dinámica de los ciclos económicos desde que Kon...

BACKGROUND Bam earthquake was the most catastrophic natural disasters in recent years. The aim of this study was to review different aspects of crisis management during and after the catastrophic earthquake in Bam City, Iran. METHODS Data needed for this systematic review were collected through searching PubMed, EMBASE and SID databases, for the period from 2003 to 2011. Keywords included ear...