OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the physical and mental health status of disaster victims according to disaster types, such as a typhoon disaster and an oil spill disaster, and to suggest adequate health care services for them. METHODS A total of 484 people who suffered disasters were selected for this study, and data were collected from July to August, 2008. The data-set ...

By combining news coverage and survey data from the BP oil spill of 2010, this study demonstrates how the media played an important role in connecting the disaster to President Obama. Rather than criticizing Obama from the outset, the spill reporting escalated from a period of event-based, factual coverage to a highly politicized phase of governmental blame attribution. We utilize a natural exp...

Oil spills have immediate adverse effects on marine ecological functions. Accurate assessment of the damage caused by oil spill is great significance for protection ecosystems. In this study observation data Chaetoceros and shellfish before after Penglai 19-3 in Bohai Sea were analyzed least-squares fitting method radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Besides, an transport model provided w...