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Digital tabletops for situational awareness in emergency situations
Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2011In major disasters it is common to install command posts close to the affected areas, in which a unified command, composed by people with different skills and goals, works together to resolve the situation. A major difficulty when supporting this command post is filtering the information that should be available and providing it at the right time to ...
Andre Engelbrecht +2 more
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Emergency situations in SMEs: are entrepreneurs prepared?
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2012Acute emergency situations in the personal life of the entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can play an important role in the premature, involuntary cessation of businesses. In this paper, it is empirically investigated how entrepreneurs prepare for these emergency situations (disablement, death, prolonged illness, and divorce ...
Kleijn, Els +2 more
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Transportation in Emergency and Crisis Situations
2015A safe and rapid transport use is essential to minimize the effect of any emergency or crisis situation. The transport use and its comprehensive security deal with emergencies and crisis situations, and are based on the technological requirements which are implemented in the current secure environment.
Strohmandl, Jan +3 more
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Airway management in emergency situations
Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2005Securing and monitoring the airway are among the key requirements of appropriate therapy in emergency patients. Failures to secure the airways can drastically increase morbidity and mortality of patients within a very short time. Therefore, the entire range of measures needed to secure the airway in an emergency, without intermediate ventilation and ...
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Consent for research in emergency situations
Resuscitation, 2002Patients suffering from cardiac arrest cannot give informed consent for participation in interventional trials.
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Preparing for Emergency Situations
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2010Disaster relief can be seen as a dynamic multi actor process with actors both joining and leaving the relief work during the help and rescue phase after the disaster has occurred. Actors may be governmental agencies, non profit voluntary organisations or spontaneous helpers comprised of individual citizens or temporal groups of citizens.
Viveca Asproth +2 more
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Emergence of Self Situated at an Institution
2018In this Chapter, I will analyse some of the processes in and conditions for supporting the development of self in social-pedagogical treatment at institutions for residential care of children and adolescents who are placed there because of behavioural or personal problems or because their family cannot take care of them.
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Procedures for Emergency Situations
2018The development of the smart grid concept implies major changes in the operation and planning of distribution systems, particularly in Low Voltage (LV) networks. The majority of small-scale Distributed Energy Resources (DER)—microgeneration units, energy storage devices, and flexible loads—are connected to LV networks, requiring local control solutions
Carlos Moreira, Clara Gouveia
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