When planning and modeling disaster response processes (DRP), the unpredictability of disasters precludes accounting for all eventualities in advance. DRPs are thus typically concretized and adapted after the disaster and during the process’s run-time. Since time is critical and uncertainty typical, planning of DRPs requires methods and tools that support disaster managers in process analysis, ...

The second generation of a competitive ELISA for prolamin quantification based on the R5 antibody was studied for method performance and suitability to detect partially hydrolyzed prolamins in food. To be able to convert signal intensities to gluten concentrations, as required by the Codex Alimentarius Standard, a new calibrator consisting of a peptic-tryptic digest of wheat, rye, and barley pr...

The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular regard to the new public open spaces created and their sustainability. The research carries out a post-occupancy evaluation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which is the main output o...

Partial-Order Causal Link planners typically take a “least-commitment” approach to some decisions (notably, step ordering), postponing those decisions until constraints force them to be made. However, these planners rely to some degree on early commitments in making other types of decisions, including threat resolution and operator choice. We show why existing planners cannot support full least...

Teaching methodologies and uses of competitive intelligence and competitive technical intelligence in countries where the culture and the technological level are very different from the western world cannot be implemented without a cultural understanding of the tacit local knowledge and cultural behavior of people. As an example of research-action, we have chosen two Indonesian regions: Sulawes...

I shall base my comments on my experience as major economic adviser in the design of South Korea’s Second Five Year Plan, which changed its policy orientation radically.. In interpreting Korea’s strategy, I shall also draw upon my comparative and historical statistical studies ( with Professor Cynthia Taft Morris) on how interactions among economic, social and political institutions change syst...

The medical information system has been applied in hospitals widely, which makes hospitals acquire notable management benefit and economic benefit. When hospitals enjoy the quick service decision and convenient management because of informationization, they are also in the danger of data loss. Data disaster recovery is the guarantee of the hospital informationization construction, and the base ...

NCVER found a variety of problems and limitations with existing arrangements: few RTOs apart from the large public sector institutions could guarantee that their records would be retrievable in 30 years time. There is little protection for learners when an RTO closes suddenly. The recent collapse of a large Victorian registered RTO, affecting over 1,400 students across Australia, has demonstrat...

Warning systems are technically, socially, and organizationally shaped and rest on specific assumptions concerning human behavior during disasters. The common notions about people’s behavior in disaster situations are often not based on empirical data, but rather on so-called “myths” which overemphasize rare and situation-dependent extreme behaviors such as panic, disaster shock, looting or hel...