A project is underway to map die indoor radon potential for New York State at the township level. Through a detector distribution program the New York State Department of Health has a database of over 36,000 basement screening measurements. The address field for the indoor measurement data is being linked to latitude and longitude coordinates using data files containing coordinate information. ...

The IT center of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is one of the largest information centers in the State of Kuwait. It provides many services to KOC departments and other Kuwait oil sector companies (K-Companies). These services need to ensure High Availability (HA) and flexibility in their operations. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the damage that affects the Business Continuity...

PROBLEM Quick detection and response were essential for preventing outbreaks of infectious diseases after the Sichuan earthquake. However, the existing public health communication system in Sichuan province, China, was severely damaged by the earthquake. APPROACH The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention set up a mobile phone emergency reporting system. In total, 495 light-powered...

BACKGROUND Township-village health centers in rural areas play an important role in health service system in China. In East China's Jiangsu Province, the City of Haimen privatized all 25 township-village health centers in 2002. This study assesses the effect of privatization on staff retention among these health centers. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on 10-year administrative da...

to determine the factors affecting the acceptation of rice insurance in sari township a number of 90 farmers (45 assured and 45 not assured) were sampled. the information consisted of personal (age, size of family, activity experiment, damage experiment, and non-farm income); social (studies level, agrarian regimes, locality); and geography (farm size, distance between farm to insurance broker)...

Jian GUAN, Dao ZHOU, Fanyong MENG School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China School of Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, 412007, China Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], men...

Lixia Zhang,* Peili Wu,3 Tianjun Zhou,1 Malcolm J. Roberts3 and Reinhard Schiemann4 1LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China 3Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK 4Department of Meteorology, Reading U...

— The student generation nowadays is considered as the Net Generation who grow up in the age of Internet and mobile technology and prefer bringing technological application into their life. The Learning Resource Center – an academic information center-takes the initiative in developing a collaborative network with the students' participation for delivering information of natural disasters and c...