Sustainability for a society means long-term viability, but also the ability to cope with economic crises and disasters. Just as with natural disasters, we can minimize the chance of them occurring and set in place policies to protect the world’s citizens against their consequences. This paper is concerned with the impact of economic crises on the inequality of resources and with the impact of ...

Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first two efforts in a continuing series of exercises termed Exercise 24 or X24. These exercises attempted to demonstrate that self-organizing groups can form and respond to a crisis using low-cost social media and other emerging web technologies. P lotnick and White (2010) describe social media as generally being at...

in a crisis, daily life of people is threatened by disaster. the management of the crisis is both a science and an art in which attempts are made to restore the critical situation to a normal one, not necessarily to the same conditions which existed before the crisis took place. the ability of a manager to overcome the crisis depends on his readiness before it occurs. in this review article, th...

Global concern over the state of the natural environment has been increasing enormously in recent years. This concern has materialized within global, national and local policy circles with an array of citizen participation in environmental conservation and efforts at the national and local levels as well as international initiatives such as the 1992 Earth Summit, 1994 Rio summit, 1997 Kyoto Sum...

For a long period, Computational Linguistics (CL) and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) have developed almost entirely independently of each other. A brief historical survey shows that the main reason for this state of affairs was the long preoccupation in CL with the general problem of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). As a consequence, much effort was directed to fields such as M...

Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and hurricanes/earthquakes i.e. Katrina (2005), Wilma (2005) and Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004). Most of the recent work has been conducted for crisis management under terrorist attacks and emergency management services ...

We show that exposure from past business transactions – risk overhang – can reduce activity in related business lines, sometimes to the point where no new trade occurs. We focus primarily on the role of overhang in nonlife insurance market disruptions. Our model predicts that the relative impact, duration, and character of supply disruptions are related to the extent of overhang. These predicti...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a clonal proliferative disease originating from a pluripotential stem cell in which a 9:22 translocation, Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, results in the production of BCR-ABL fusion protein that has constitutive tyrosine kinase activity and deregulates signal transduction pathways, thus causing leukemia. The natural course of CML is usually triphasic (chronic...