Protective actions for hurricane threats are a function of the environmental and information context; individual and household characteristics, including cultural worldviews, past hurricane experiences, and risk perceptions; and motivations and barriers to actions. Using survey data from the Miami-Dade and Houston-Galveston areas, we regress individuals' stated evacuation intentions on these fa...

background: to compare the efficacy of two routes of prostaglandin e 2 administration (intravenous and intramuscular) for treatment of missed abortion this study was conducted. regarding the pilot cases of missed abortion admitted for termination of pregnancy intravenous administration of pge2 that had higher efficacy compare to intramuscular route, investigators designed this study. methods: i...

We use visual analytics to assist human experts in the verification of evacuation schedules and enable them to identify the bottle-necks in building evacuation. The user can change parameters, such as the number of occupants present in the rooms, the parametric settings for fire simulation, the building design, etc. and analyze their effect on evacuation. Visualization of the people flow in the...

Multiobjective evacuation routes optimization problem is defined to find out optimal evacuation routes for a group of evacuees under multiple evacuation objectives. For improving the evacuation efficiency, we abstracted the evacuation zone as a superposed potential field network (SPFN), and we presented SPFN-based ACO algorithm (SPFN-ACO) to solve this problem based on the proposed model. In Wu...

To better understand household hurricane evacuation decisions, this paper addresses a limitation to existing hurricane evacuation modeling aspects by developing a dynamic model of hurricane evacuation behavior. A household’s evacuation decision is framed as an optimal stopping problem where every potential evacuation time period prior to the actual hurricane landfall, the household’s optimal ch...

Crowd evacuation from industrial buildings, factories, theatres, protest areas, festivals, exhibitions and religious/sports gatherings is very crucial in many dangerous scenarios, such as fire, earthquakes, threat and attacks. Simulation of crowd evacuation is an integral part of planning for emergency situations and training staff for crow management. In this paper, simulation of crowd evacuat...

With the full swing of computer technology, evacuation models are constructed and simulated via computers to study the various phenomena and behaviors during the evacuation process. They open unique potential opportunity to evaluate the architectural design and provide the decision support for the emergency evacuation plans. This paper details a capacity constrained route planner (CCRP) algorit...

The simulation of indoor evacuation is important for rescue and safety management, while a better visualization of simulation could help users to understand the evacuation plan better and to design the evacuation activities more effectively. The purpose of this paper is to show an indoor evacuation simulator with more realistic graphical user interface for both interacting and visualizing the s...

In this study the rheology of blood clot is measured with the help of rotational rheometer. Several shear strain (0.5, 1 and 2%) are applied with two frequencies (5 and 10 Hz) from the incipient time of clot formation and the response of the sample is measured with the form of shear stress and the phase lag which is interpreted with storage and loss moduli. In this study the ratio of loss to st...