With the Government of China's proposed Energy Efficiency Regulations (GB40411-2007), the implementation of external insulation systems will be mandatory in China. The frequent external insulation system fires cause huge numbers of casualties and extensive property damage and have rapidly become a new hot issue in construction evacuation safety in China. This study attempts to reconstruct an ac...

gross hematuria or macroscopic hematuria is a high risk urologic condition that might occur in different settings. in the case of continued gross hematuria, blood clot size may grow and lead to complete obstruction of urinary outflow. placement of three-way catheter, continuous bladder irrigation with normal saline, and cystoscopy are conventional treatments. here we introduce a case with urina...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, in the Futaba District of the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, was severely damaged by the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck off the northern coast of the island of Honshu on March 11, 2011. The resulting structural damage to the plant disabled the reactor's cooling systems and led to significant, ongoing environmental releases of radioactivi...

Hurricane forecasts are intended to convey information that is useful in helping individuals and organizations make decisions. For example, decisions include whether a mandatory evacuation should be issued, where emergency evacuation shelters should be located, and what are the appropriate quantities of emergency supplies that should be stockpiled at various locations. This paper incorporates o...

Crowd evacuation simulations are useful tools for analyzing and assessing the safety of building occupants. Agent-based simulations provide a platform for computing individual as well as and collective behaviors in crowds. During an evacuation, it is well known that trained leaders or evacuation guides play a key role in saving human lives. In this paper, we propose an evacuation simulation sys...

The evacuation and abandonment of large passenger ships, involving thousands passengers, is a safety-critical task where techniques systems that can improve the complex decision-making process timely response to emergencies on board are vital importance. Current processes based predefined static exit signs, information provided passengers in form drills, emergency leaflets public announcements ...

In order to evacuate smoothly and safely at a large earthquake, it is important to obtain the information on property damages (such as street-blockage and fire) and on evacuation areas by hearsay, guidance and bulletin boards. In this paper, we construct a model, which describes wide-area evacuation, information-hearsay among evacuees and guidance behavior. Using this model, we evaluate the inf...

A novel approach is proposed in this paper for personnel and vehicle iterative evacuation optimization to tackle crowd evacuation problem in emergency. The paper analyzes the mechanism to coordinate people flow evacuation with traffic stream evacuation, and explores optimization model from a personnel and vehicle coordination evacuation perspective. The evacuation is classified as two categorie...

One of the necessary measures of saving human life in emergency situations, such as fires, is the safe and swift evacuation of people. The prerequisites for this are to anticipate, identify, and eliminate factors preventing people from leaving buildings in a timely and safe manner while moving them to a safe place [1]. The occurrence of errors caused by engineering, design, human, and psycholog...

Evacuation has the potential to save lives, but could be costly in time, money, and credibility. Evacuation is a possible measure in case of a threat for flooding. Different types of evacuation can be distinguished as preventive evacuation, vertical evacuation to safe havens or shelters or shelter in place. The consequences in terms of loss of life depends on the required time related to the ty...