objective: to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and preparedness of mahabad red crescent society volunteers in dealing with chemical attacks. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 120 red crescent society volunteers in mahabad city, iran, during 2014-2015.the knowledge of the volunteers was evaluated and rated using a questionnaire as poor, moderate, and good. also, t...

Genetic rescue can increase the fitness of small, imperiled populations via immigration. A suite of studies from the past decade highlights the value of genetic rescue in increasing population fitness. Nonetheless, genetic rescue has not been widely applied to conserve many of the threatened populations that it could benefit. In this review, we highlight recent studies of genetic rescue and pla...

"The early stages of these'diseases often cause little disability and the sufferers put off seeking medical advice because they think the condition is trivial and will clear up by itself. Sometimes they try some sort of quack remedy-although it is illegal to sell such remedies nowadays. This sort of delay and these irregular methods of treatment bring disaster in their train. If sufferers wait ...

Objective: To report the outcomes of rescue cervical cerclages performed at a single institution. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out at a single institution between 2006 and 2011. All patients presenting for cerclage placement were identified. From these patients, those undergoing rescue cerclage were studied. Results: 236 patients met inclusion criteria for cerclage placement. Of t...

This essay addresses some common misunderstandings about torture also perpetuated in the ongoing debates concerning "rescue" or "necessity torture" and introduces, in a comparative perspective, the structural properties of the different historical and current paradigms of organized state cruelty. Regarding "modern torture" the essay deconstructs its exceptionalism which is based on claims of a ...

Hajime Kawahara, Kohji Yoshikawa, Shin Sasaki Yasushi Suto, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Takaya Ohashi, and Noriko Y. Yamasaki 1Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 [email protected] 2Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 3Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Techno...

The RoboCupRescue Robot League is an international competition that has grown to be an effective driver for the dissemination of solutions to the challenges posed by Urban Search and Rescue Robotics and accelerated the development of the performance standards that are crucial to widespread effective deployment of robotic systems for these applications. In this paper, we will discuss how this co...

Mapping environments is a fundamental task for a rescue robot. In this paper we present techniques that we have developed for mapping rescue environments within the SPQR-Rescue team participating in the RoboCup 2004 Real Rescue competition. After an analysis of existing techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) we have devised a method suitable for planar environment (i.e. yel...