For stimuli development:Online questionnaire to select students for in-depth, in-person interviewsFirst interview about experience of

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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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

Purposive investigation of a system through selective adjustment of controllable conditions and allocation of resources.

DRIVER+ Note 1: Please consider also the notes in the original definition.
DRIVER+ Note 2: In the context of DRIVER+ Trials are executed - and not experiments.

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(N = 338).

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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.

we utilize the cloud computing and

Individual, who is not affiliated with an existing incident response organization or voluntary organization but who, without extensive preplanning, offers support to the response to, and recovery from, an incident.

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

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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

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.

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.

empirical testing with analyze of questionnaire survey data collected from professional

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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responders during a series of multi-agency, international

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management exercises at the Dutch–German border

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.

Students would have to use their Assessment is a test, examination or similar, designed to assess a candidate’s knowledge, understanding or skills in a defined area. DRIVER+ note 1: candidate can be a person or a solution, example given: assessment of a solution in a Trial.

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skills, communication skills, triage skills, patient safety skills, collaborative skills, documentations skills, and leadership skills to effectively manage the presenting infectious disease

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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while addressing other health-related conditions.