an earthquake was happened on 23 october 2011 in van, turkey (mw7.2) at the eastern most area of anatolian plateau and in the neighborhood of iranian border (west azerbaijan province). the study was performed based on field and office observations and has been focused on the process of disaster management in turkey after the 23 october 2011 earthquake. we surveyed the quake from the view point ...

We argue that the use of proactive software agents with workflow systems can enrich the co-ordinated distribution of work via negotiation. We present the use of software agents in the: provision of distributed workflow; reactive and proactive negotiation of work due to process failure; facilitation of workflow interoperability; visualisation and verification of decentralised processes. This app...

An important diagnostic tool for the evaluation of thyroid disease, thyroid ultrasound has recently become available for use in surgical offices. The purpose of this report is to determine the lesional sensitivity of office-based thyroid ultrasound and its impact on clinical decision making. Surgical office-based thyroid ultrasound was performed on 49 consecutive patients who presented with thy...