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Disaster response operations: proposal of a management model and a database prototype
Revista Produção Online, 2015 This paper reviews experiences of six international institutions and a Brazilian organization in disaster response operations, consolidating the main processes related to the operation and management of this type of humanitarian assistance.
Maria Aparecida Garcia Bastos +2 more
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Organizing Debt Relief: The Need for a New Institution [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 In March 1989, the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Nicholas Brady, endorsed a change in strategy for dealing with developing country debt, calling for a three-year waiver of clauses in existing loan agreements that stand in the way of debt reduction “to accelerate sharply the pace of debt reduction and pass the benefits directly to the debtor ...
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BMJ Global HealthIntroduction To ensure that humanitarian action is disability-inclusive, evidence is needed to understand how different strategies to support children living with disabilities and their families can work in these settings.
Hamish R Graham +6 more
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Low infant mortality among Palestine refugees despite the odds
Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOBJECTIVE: To present data from a 2008 infant mortality survey conducted in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and analyse infant mortality trends among Palestine refugees in 1995-2005.
Flavia Riccardo +2 more
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Inter-Organizational Partnering Strategies in Disaster Response: A Complex Network Perspective
Systems, 2023 Establishing appropriate inter-organizational partnership in disaster response is of great help to the improvement of disaster relief performance.
Chenyu Liu, Qian Shi
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Relief Organizations with Counseling Restrictions
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2006 Professional, practical, clinical and cultural obligations should guide decision making when a funding agency restricts the types of counseling and advice it allows medical professionals to dispense. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Saving Students: European Student Relief in the Aftermath of World War I
, 2018 The World’s Student Christian Federation established the European Student Relief (ESR) organization in 1920 in order to respond to the refugee and hunger crises emerging in the wake of World War I in Europe.
Hartley, Benjamin L.
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The British Relief Association and the Great Famine in Ireland
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2014 The historiography of the Great Famine in Ireland has largely been concerned with the role played by the British Government in providing relief in the years after 1845. Less attention has been given to the involvement of private charity.
Christine Kinealy
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Light mediated emergence of surface patterns in azopolymers at low temperatures [PDF]
, 2015 Polymer thin films doped with azobenzene molecules do have the ability to organize themselves in spontaneous surface relief gratings (SRG) under irradiation with a single polarized beam.
Ahmadi-Kandjani, S. +6 more
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Preventive Medicine ReportsObjectives: This study aims to assess the prevalence of the current use of tobacco and e-cigarettes; to identify temporal trends, and to assess factors influencing tobacco use among adolescent Palestine refugees. Methods: The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (
Sandrine Jacoba Cornelia Vollebregt +2 more
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