Publication Findings
Examining the Role of Social Media in Effective Crisis Management: The Effects of Crisis Origin, Information Form, and Source on Publics’ Crisis Responses.

For stimuli development:Online questionnaire to select students for in-depth, in-person interviewsFirst interview about experience of situations and how they use mediaThis study tests essential components of the SMCC model through a 3 (crisis information form) x 2 (crisis information source) x 2 (crisis origin) mixed-design (N = 338).

Expanding the use of simulation in open vascular surgical training

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Flood Emergency Management Using Hydrodynamic Modelling

Locating in middle and lower reaches of South Shaoxi Brook, Qingshan is a large (2) type reservoir for flood control mainly, with purpose of irrigation, power generation and others. Qingshan Reservoir plays a significant role to protect safety of Datang, the dangerous place in the west of Hangzhou City.

Forming a global monitoring mechanism and a spatiotemporal performance model for geospatial services.

we utilize the cloud computing and computing technologies and propose a spatiotemporal performance model that provides more accurate performance evaluations to users from different regions at different times.

Full-scale regional exercises: Closing the gaps in disaster preparedness.

simulated a train derailment and chemical spillThird-party contracted evaluators assessed each hospital in five areas: communications, command structure, decontamination, staffing, and patient tracking.

Geotagging Twitter Messages in Crisis Management.

Software developmentFirst, we evaluated the system by comparing its output against human judgement as ground truth for a selection of 500 tweetsSecondly, we tested our geotagger performance with the testing dataset against other geocoding platforms including: The Alchemy API NER and the Yahoo! GeoPlanet service.The IBM research (Australia) plans the OzCrsisTracker 2.0 deployment in the Australian Bushfire and Flood season 2014.

Giving meaning to tweets in emergency situations: a semantic approach for filtering and visualizing social data.

Two real cases used to test its applicability showed that different visualization techniques might be needed to support situation awareness.We have chosen two case studies that vary considerably in the number of information generated and they help also to illustrate potential visualization techniques that can be used to support data exploration. The visualization of the outcomes of this process plays a fundamental role in order to facilitate the interpretation by the operators.

Group value and intention to use – A study of multi-agency disaster management information systems for public safety

empirical testing with analyze of questionnaire survey data collected from professional responders during a series of multi-agency, international management exercises at the Dutch–German border

Health worker and policy-maker perspectives on use of intramuscular artesunate for pre-referral and definitive treatment of severe malaria at health posts in Ethiopia.

In-depth interviews were conducted by twenty research assistants with research experience and trained in data collection specifically for this study. The interviews were conducted in the local languages.Daily supervision of interviewers and checking of completed interviews was done to ensure collection of accurate and complete data.

High Fidelity Simulation to Evaluate Emergency Management in Urgent Care Centers.

Students would have to use their skills, communication skills, triage skills, patient safety skills, collaborative skills, documentations skills, and leadership skills to effectively manage the presenting infectious disease while addressing other health-related conditions.

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