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Donation-based relief goods distribution problem

Computers & industrial engineering, 2021
Both government and non-governmental organizations play crucial roles in any disaster relief program, particularly in donating necessary goods to the affected area.
Yingzhen Chen, Qiuhong Zhao
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Friends or Colleagues? Communal and Exchange Relationships During stages of Humanitarian Relief

Production and operations management, 2020
In this study, we explore firm‐level perspectives from four types of organizations on how collaborative relationships are viewed, strengthened, and applied in responding to disasters.
Iana Shaheen, A. Azadegan
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Relief and Reconstruction Organizations

International Organization, 1947
During March, 1947, meetings of the Movements Conference (ECIMOT) and the monthly Bid-Acceptance Meeting (BIDAC) were organized by the European Central Inland Transport Organization, and attended by representatives from a number of European countries and the four occupation zones of Germany and Austria.
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Overseas Relief Organizations

The Nurse Practitioner, 1989
Spending time overseas providing health care to people in disaster or famine-related situations can be a very rewarding experience. This article presents lists of various organizations available for health care professionals who wish to spend time in relief work. The lists include qualifications and/or professional needs, locations, lengths of service,
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A Risk‐Based Approach to Improving Disaster Relief Asset Pre‐Positioning

Production and operations management, 2018
It is well‐recognized that pre‐positioning assets in advance of a natural disaster is important for supporting timely relief provision after a disaster occurs.
Andrew N. Arnette, C. Zobel
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Relief and Rehabilitation Organization

International Organization, 1947
The first formal action by the Allied Governments in considering the problem of reconstruction of the disrupted transport system of Europe's devastated areas was taken in October, 1942, when the Inter-Allied Committee on Post-war Requirements set up a Technical Advisory Committee on Inland Transport, with Professor E. R. Hondelink of the Netherlands as
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Relief and Rehabilitation Organizations

International Organization, 1947
The question of the termination or reorganization of ECITO, along with the Emergency Economic Committee for Europe and the European Coal Organization, was considered during May, 1947, by the Economic Commission for Europe, which called a meeting of transport experts to recommend arrangements for absorption of ECITO.
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Organizing Engineering Volunteers for Disaster Relief

Issues in Engineering: Journal of Professional Activities, 1982
National and manmade disasters disrupt people's lives and make them dependant on others. This is particularly severe in the least developed countries often subject to their neighbor's political and racial upheavals. Seldom are such outcomes newsworthy.
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Architectural Considerations for Building a Robust Crowdsourced Disaster Relief Application

International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, 2020
Social media has been a critical factor in providing improved disaster relief across the world in the past 15 years. However, our analysis of Chennai flood relief efforts revealed many downsides to the relief efforts based on social media such as ...
Ramesh Guntha, Sethuraman N. Rao, M. Ramesh   +2 more
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A two-phase coordinated logistics planning approach to platelets provision in humanitarian relief operations

IISE Transactions, 2019
For provision of platelets in humanitarian relief operations, due to the excessive number of non-coordinated organizations, relief response times and corresponding costs of platelets sharply increase.
Afshin Kamyabniya, M. M. Lotfi, Hua Cai, H. Hosseini-Nasab, S. Yaghoubi, Yuehwern Yih   +5 more
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