This project aims to develop a loss model and related measures of community resilience for the Los Angeles lifeline study. It focuses on social and economic dimensions of resilience. In Year 7, the L.A. loss model is being refined by undertaking preliminary investigation of performance objectives (from the perspective of utilities), modeling impacts on hospitals, and integrating with related MC...

The provision of aid in war zones can be fraught with political difficulties and may itself foster inequalities, as it is rare to be allowed access to civilians on both sides of a conflict. Over the past decade, a United Nations (UN) brokered agreement has allowed Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), a UN "umbrella" organisation, to provide the diplomatic cover and operational support to allow long ...

Recoveries after recent earthquakes in the U.S. and Japan have shown that large welfare gains can be achieved by reshaping current emergency plans as incentive-compatible contracts. We apply tools from the mechanisms design literature to show ways to integrate economic incentives into the management of natural disasters and discuss issues related to the application to seismic event recovery. Th...

The telephone is your practice's lifeline. Learn how one group applied new phone technology to improve service to patients, foster operational efficiencies and capture more revenue.

Because of its complexity, reliability analysis of lifeline-network usually employs a sampling-based approach. MonteCarlo simulation (MCS) provides a straightforward method to deal with interdependence between structural components and their cascading failures in the lifeline network system, but its computational cost might be expensive if the probability of the event of interest is too low. To...