Smartphones are becoming increasingly useful in disaster management both to provide useful information to victims and to coordinate relief operations. However, a lack of technological expertise as well as considerable amount of time and cost required to build mobile applications prevents the rapid deployment of useful applications by humanitarian organizations for different crises. In this pape...

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T he emergency relief operation in the former Yugoslavia was one of the largest, most complex, and riskiest international relief initiatives ever undertaken. UNHCR’s programme was perhaps the most difficult of any mounted by the organization since it was established.While UNHCR had operations in all the republics of the former Yugoslavia during its violent dissolution, the organization faced it...

About the author: I am a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (the only medical school in the state), where I have been for the last 25 years. Since Katrina, my location has remained the same, but I have traveled more than ever to the Gulf Coast to help where needed in both a service and teaching capacity. For the American Academy of Pediatri...

objectives: the present study aimed at studying the health status of the elderly supported by imam khomeini relief foundation in birjand in 2007. methods & materials: this descriptive analytical study was done on 250 elderly people who were supported by imam khomeini committee in birjand. for data collection the comprehensive health questionnaire of the elderly was used. the questionnaire was f...

Artykuł jest pierwszą próbą wyjaśnienia roli i postawy belgijskiego rządu na emigracji w dyskusji nad zadaniami funkcjami międzynarodowej organizacji mającej help the people to themselves, jak zapowiadali twórcy UNRRA. Pełne poparcie propozycji przez Belgów wydawało się oczywiste z racji zachowanej we wdzięcznej pamięci akcji Committee for Relief in Belgium podczas I wojny światowej. Autor poka...

introduction: the aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of instructing hardiness components on anxiety level of national olympic committee personnel. materials and methods: the study was a semi-experimental research. the statistical population included all the personnel of the national olympic committee of islamic republic of iran employed in 2013-2014 who contained 117 indivi...

pain relief by soaking in hot water can be used for women who want to birth their child with minimal medical intervention . this achieved in new division of labor in the hinchinbroke hospital in september 1983 . in this part, control of childbirth pain has done with minimal medical intervention . if consultation of maternity is necessary, have be done in this hospital. midwives and doctors in t...

Powerful politicians can interfere with the enforcement of regulations. As such, expected political interference affect constituents’ behavior. Using rotations Senate committee chairs to identify variation in power and regulatory relief, we study powerful politicians’ effect on consumer lending communities protected by fair-lending We find a 7.5% reduction credit access minority neighborhoods s...