In this paper, we devise an information retrieval system which can filter and rank tweets according to relevance to the query. We devise methods to understand relationships among entities and action verbs from a small set of manually annotated tweets. We further use these relationships to filter tweets and rank them accordingly. Our results (as published by FIRE Microblog Track) show that we ha...

Disasters are characterised by their devastating effect on human lives and the society’s ability to function. Unfortunately, rescue operations and the possibility to re-establish a working society after such events is often hampered by the lack of functioning communication infrastructures. This paper describes the challenges ahead in creating new communication networks to support postdisaster o...

Background: Township cadres, considered as basic executors of state policy, play an important role in Chinese society. Their job satisfaction is a vital issue for township management, but there are few studies on this topic in China. The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction, and to further examine whether psychological capital (PsyCa...

1 Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifong E. Rd., Wufong Township Taichung County 41349, Taiwan 2 Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan 3 Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo-kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan 4 Departme...

The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) develops and provides access to health information resources and technology for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. DIMRC focuses on maintaining access to health information at all phases of disasters, developing innovative products and services for emergency personnel, conducting research to support disaster health informat...

BACKGROUND Sichuan Province is an agricultural and economically developing province in western China. To understand practices of prescribing medications for outpatients in rural township health centers is important for the development of the rural medical and health services in this province and western China. METHODS This is an observational study based on data from the 4th National Health S...

BACKGROUND Although there is a large increase in investment for tuberculosis control in Myanmar, there are few operational analyses to inform policies. Only 34% of nationally reported cases are from women. In this study, we investigate sex differences in tuberculosis diagnoses in Myanmar in order to identify potential health systems barriers that may be driving lower tuberculosis case finding a...

introduction: disasters are always challenging to hospital managers as they give rise to critical conditions. from all natural disasters occurring in the world, 31 have happened in iran, giving the country a high global rank in this regard. therefore it seems necessary for hospitals to adopt contingency plans. this study aimed to assess the level of preparedness of hospitals affiliated to shira...