Electrical burns are among the most devastating trauma inflicted on the human body. These burns have a higher morbidity, length of stay and a much higher risk of amputation than any other type of burn. Electrical burns affect mostly young, working males because they are more frequently the result of a work accident. However, possibly due to the worldwide economic crisis, we are experiencing a n...

Coastal inundation has been identified as an important natural hazard that affects densely populated and built-up areas (Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction, 2008). Inundation, or coastal flooding, can result from various physical processes, including storm surges, tsunamis, intense precipitation events, and extreme high tides. Such events cause quickly rising water levels. When rapidly rising w...

The global financial crisis terminated lending growth rates in CESEE countries, and seven years after crisis, bank credit still continues with depression rate. Demand supply for are contracted, as a results of various factors. paper tries to find the level contraction factors that may have affected it, well policy action which being taken improve performance. Economic activity on other hand, de...

Background & Objectives Orphan Drugs (ODs) are medicinal products intended for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of rare diseases. Access to ODs is crucial for patients' health and quality of life. However, patients claim that access to orphan drugs is sometimes restricted, a phenomenon that has grown during the economic crisis. The aim of this study was to identify current problems and future...

One widely perceived yet poorly understood phenomenon in the practice of critical infrastructure protection is that of blind spots. These are certain aspects of the interrelationships among different critical infrastructure systems (CI systems) that could trigger catastrophe across CI systems but are concealed from planners, and discovered only in the aftermath of a crisis. In this paper, we di...

Every aspect of addiction can be considered as a highly complex process during which the function of nervous processes which are responsible for controlling behaviour associated with the object of addiction is changed by means of using/consuming the object of addiction. There is an uncontrolled need directed to appropriate behaviour, but also a tendency to amount to the least extent all types o...

Nowadays, huge tendency to fashion and consumerism could be assumed as the origin of identitycrisis among women and in their houses. This phenomenon is like a veil between man and the fact of his human being. Given that the physical properties of man-made environments (house) are influenced by human properties and, in return, have an important role in giving identity to their audience, identifi...

The crisis of the couple in today's society, increases the number of singles and causes difficulty in creating stable and lasting relationships over time. The last two censuses of the Italian population show an increase in the number of singles, especially among the young generation. From this figure we have tried to understand the causes of this phenomenon both from the point of view of sociol...

In order to design a tool which really suit to work situations, we have to know them. Therefore, we analyse nominal, “usual”, situations in order to know the work processes of the forecasters. Nevertheless, the SIGOONS tool will be used during critical thunderstorm phenomenon. Thus, we also analyse critical situations, that means extreme situation, emergency, crisis and disaster. Since the earl...

We present a dynamic model for Communication and Information Systems of crisis management taking into account the mental representations of actors. This model allows the representation of the intentions and the judgements expressed by the different actors when they exchange information about the situation. It mainly uses auto modifying dynamic Multi-Agent Systems and produces a graphical descri...