Publication Findings
Expert system CRIPS: support of situation assessment and decision making

CRIPS is suitable to fulfill the following requirements:CRIPS completes simulationsCRIPS makes an assessment of the current situationCRIPS puts the assessments on a broad basisCRIPS supports the decision makingCRIPS helps to prevent or to mitigate blackoutsCRIPS has an interface to alert systems

Flood Emergency Management Using Hydrodynamic Modelling

The flood information could improve efficiency of flood emergency management and could offer more help in indications. The research results provide a powerful tool to analyze flood risk rapidly and make schemes for the flood resisting.

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

The experiment confirms that the proposed model provides more accurate evaluations for global users and better supports geospatial resource utilizations in SDIs than previous mechanisms.

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

None of the 16 hospitals were compliant in all five areas. Mean hospital compliance was 1.9 (T0.9 SD) areas. The most common deficiency was communications (15 of 16 hospitals [94%].Communication remains a significant gap in the mass casualty scenario 10 years after 9/11

Geotagging Twitter Messages in Crisis Management.

Experiments demonstrate that the precision and recall for detection of the definite locations against geotagging by human judgement are on average of 80%. We also conclude that the accuracy of geographical focus of the OzCT geotagger is considerably higher than other systems. While existing geocoding systems have lower coverage for suburb and street focus, our approach detects suburbs in more than 60% situations.

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

This ontology-based approach can be generalized for analyzing the information flow about other domains of application changing the underlying knowledge base.Answer to SQ: The answer is an intelligent tool able to collect, analyze and extract relevant information for them

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

The results of the path analysis were graphically presented in the paper.The results of model testing indicate that most of the relationships hypothesized in the proposed model were observable in the collected data.

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.

Use of intramuscular artesunate as pre-referral treatment of severe malaria cases at the health post is possible but dependent on training and availability of skilled workers

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

This public health emergency preparedness simulation exercise of infectious disease outbreaks can be a useful learning strategy at other educational institutions an  can be easily replicatedOur first recommendation is that presimulation briefing time should be increased from 15 to 30min.We also suggest adding an informatics component in the actual simulation. This would enhance the delivery of evidence-based care and patient safety

How Simple Hypothetical-Choice Experiments Can Be Utilized to Learn Humans’ Navigational Escape Decisions in Emergencies.

People make tradeoffs between minimizing spatial distances, choosing less congested areas and choosing visible exits, and are also influenced by observing the decisions of others. However, they evaluate the decisions of others differently depending on the presence or absence of ambiguity in the escape environment.

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