Emergency transportation plays a vital role in the success of disaster rescue and relief operations, but its planning and scheduling often involve complex objectives and search spaces. In this paper, we conduct a survey of recent advances in bio-inspired meta-heuristics, including genetic algorithms (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), etc., for solving emerge...

Background: Emergency contraception  (EC) has been available in Iran, however there has been little research into the extent of knowledge of the actions, effectiveness and attitudes of students about it .The aim of this study was to detect the Knowledge and attitudes of university students towards emergency contraception . Methods: A survey of 130 university students was conducted at Shahrekord...

Emergency planning is an ongoing activity in which a multidisciplinary group of experts intermittently collaborate to define the most appropriate response to risks. One of the most important tasks of emergency planning is the review of plans as a way of maintaining, refining, and improving them. This review of plans is based on exchanging knowledge and experiences in order to take into account ...

The evaluation of patients in the emergency room department (ER) through more accurate imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized their assistance in the early 80s. However, despite technical improvements seen during the last decade, surgical planning in the ER has not followed the development of image acquisition methods. The authors present their experience with DICOM...

In this paper we describe the integration of a robot control platform (Player/Stage) and a real robot (Pioneer P3DX) with PELEA (Planning, Execution and LEarning Architecture). PELEA is a general-purpose planning architecture suitable for a wide range of real world applications, from robotics to emergency management. It allows planning engineers to generate planning applications since it integr...

Five agencies providing home health care to indigent populations in New Orleans, Louisiana were evaluated in terms of emergency planning and implementation. This was to help improve response to community disasters for indigent populations. Preparation for Hurricane Katrina was examined looking at interaction with local and state departments of health. It was found that the state dept of health ...

This paper develops a two-stage planning procedure for master planning of elective and emergency patients while allocating at best the available hospital resources. Four types of resources are considered: operating theatre, beds in the medium and in the intensive care units, and nursing hours in the intensive care unit. A tactical plan is obtained by minimizing the deviations of the resources c...

Background: The Cyber Preparedness Continuum CNA’s Safety and Security Division conducted a Cyber Preparedness Workshop on April 25, 2013, at CNA’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The workshop brought together emergency management and cybersecurity stakeholders, drawn from both the public and private sectors, to discuss cyber preparedness. Discussions during the workshop centered around t...