scholarly journals Emergency Management and Tourism Stakeholder Responses to Crises

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeganeh Morakabati ◽  
Stephen J. Page ◽  
John Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Delphi Exercise ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Scenario Technique ◽  
Disaster Scenario ◽  
Industry Sectors

This article examines the contested area of the responsibility for destinations and tourists, within emergency settings. It incorporates a Delphi-Scenario technique to facilitate a structured discussion of emergency management for different destination stakeholders. The Delphi exercise engaged 123 senior international stakeholders, from 9 different industry sectors, across 34 countries to provide a global perspective. The study’s principal focus is on the notion of emergency management, to identify the challenges that stakeholders would face within a disaster scenario. The exercise asked stakeholders to identify with whom the responsibility rests for 18 distinct disaster-related activities. The study proposes a responsibility allocation building-block framework that could help speed up the emergency management responses by “knowing who is going to do what” with a particular focus on dealing with international tourists as a community in a disaster zone.

Developing a comprehensive, integrated and meaningful Multi-year Training and Exercise Plan

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
Ralph Renger, PhD, MEP ◽  
Brenda Granillo, MS
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Evaluation Program ◽  
Continual Improvement ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Core Capabilities ◽  
Block Approach

A Multi-year Training and Exercise Plan (MYTEP) is required for compliance with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). The MYTEP is an important tool to a) assist agencies to identify the capabilities necessary for effective preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery and b) develop a training and exercise schedule to meet this need. Federal guidance in completing the MYTEP focuses on the following three key elements: applying the HSEEP building block approach, capability-based planning, and the cycle of continual improvement. The guidance is helpful but requires thoughtful consideration of the interplay between these elements. This article discusses many challenges and solutions for designing an integrated MYTEP including: a) the extent to which the agency goal is to build agency-level or human-level capability, b) the need to address cross-cutting capabilities in resource scarce environments, c) building and maintaining necessary core capabilities, and d) integrating sponsor-required exercises. The application of these concepts is then illustrated using a case example where a MYTEP was designed with a tribal Office of Emergency Management.

scholarly journals Global Perspective of COVID-19 Vaccine Nationalism

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palash Basak ◽  
TANVIR ABIR ◽  
Abdullah Al Mamun ◽  
Noor Raihani Zainol ◽  
Mansura Khanam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vaccination Rate ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Access Data

Abstract: This study aimed to explore the global perspective of the association between GDP of various countries and progress of COVID-19 vaccinations; to explore how the global pattern holds in the continents, and investigate the spatial distribution pattern of COVID-19 vaccination progress for all countries. We have used consolidated data on COVID-19 vaccination and GDP from Our World in Data, an open-access data source. Data analysis and visualization were performed in R-Studio. There was a strong linear association between per capita income and the proportion of people vaccinated in countries with one million or more populations. GDP per capita accounts for a 50% variation in the vaccination rate across the nations. Our assessments revealed that the global pattern holds in every continent. Rich European and North-American countries are most protected against COVID-19. Less developed African countries barely initiated the vaccination program. There is a significant disparity among Asian countries. The security of wealthier nations (vac-cinated their citizens) cannot be guaranteed unless adequate vaccination covers the less-endowed countries. Therefore, the global community should take initiatives to speed up the COVID-19 vaccination program in all countries of the world, irrespective of their wealth. Keywords: COVID-19 vaccination; GDP; public health, high-income countries, developing coun-tries

STP Technology and Global Financial Market

2011 ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Yining Chen ◽  
Wayne W. Huang ◽  
Jarrad Hee
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
General Model ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Readiness Assessment ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Engineering Activity ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Reduce Risk

Straight Through Processing (STP) is the end-to-end automation of security trading process from order to settlement. It is to be used for cross-border trades to speed up settlement, reduce risk, and build the foundation for a more effective and efficient settlement process. To remain competitive, financial firms need to take actions promptly to address the opportunities and challenges brought about by STP from a global perspective of electronic business. Global STP capability may not be achieved by simply initiating a series of projects to address the challenges. It needs to be approached by a well-orchestrated re-engineering activity and enterprise-wide technology solutions. This paper presents a general model of security trading processes under the umbrella of STP, and proposes a framework of STP readiness assessment from a global perspective of electronic business, which can be used to guide the STP implementation in organizations.

scholarly journals A Transmit Beamforming and Nulling Approach with Distributed Scheduling to Improve Cell Edge Throughput

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Wendy C. Wong ◽  
Qinghua Li ◽  
Shilpa Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Interference Mitigation ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Distributed Scheduling ◽  
System Throughput ◽  
Basic Building Block ◽  
Transmit Beamforming ◽  
Cell Edge ◽  
Speed Up

We propose a transmit scheme for WiMAX systems, where multiple base stations (BSs) employ downlink transmit beamforming and nulling for interference mitigation, with minimal coordination amongst BSs. This scheme improves system throughput and robustness, by increasing cell edge and overall cell throughputs by 68% and 19%, respectively, and by delivering improvement for mobile speed up to 60 km/h. First, cell edge users suffering from severe interferences are identified. Next, the RRM unit allocates resource to serving cell edge users only. BSs will schedule to serve their cell edge users independently using the allocated resources by the RRM. A special uplink sounding region is designed for BSs to learn the interference environment and form proper beams and nulls. The nulls formed towards users served by other BSs reduced interference from a BS towards these users and is the basic building block of our algorithm.

Re-evaluating food systems and food security: A global perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Global Food

Three major systems of producing and distributing food coexist in today’s world – traditional, modernising and industrialised. While the movement from traditional to modernising to industrialised is neither inevitable nor uncontested, there are various social, economic and political forces that are acting to speed up such a transition. Neoliberal globalisation and financialisation are two of the macro-processes that are implicated in profound changes in food systems. From the perspective of critical agri-food scholarship, this article will outline the characteristics of the three food systems, before examining the role played by neoliberal globalisation and financialisation in reshaping their trajectories. The issue of food security will then be addressed, along with current opposition to the current global food trajectory.

scholarly journals The role of concurrent engineering in resilient critical infrastructures during disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1290
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Nekooie
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Total Recovery ◽  
Highest Weight ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
Resilient Response ◽  
Rescue And Relief ◽  
Information Interchange

The world has complex mega-cities and interdependent infrastructures. This complication in infrastructure relations makes it sensitive to disasters and failures. Cascading failure causes blackouts for the whole system of infrastructures during disasters and the lack of performance of the emergency management stakeholders is clear during a disaster due to the complexity of the system. This research aimed to develop a new concurrent engineering model following the total recovery effort. The objectives of this research were to identify the clustered intervention utilized in the field of resilience and developing a cross-functional intervention network to enhance the resilience of societies during a disaster. Content analysis was employed to classify and categorize the intervention in the main divisions and sub-divisions and the grouping of stakeholders. The transposing system was employed to develop an integrated model. The result of this research showed that the operations division achieved the highest weight of information interchange during the response to improve the resilience of the system. The committee of logistics and the committee of rescue and relief needed the widest bandwidth of information flow in the concurrent engineering (CE) model. The contributed CE model helped the stakeholders provide a resilient response system. The final model and the relative share value of exchanging information for each workgroup can speed up recovery actions. This research found that concurrent engineering (CE) is a viable concept to be implemented as a strategy for emergency management. The result of this research can help policymakers achieve a collaborative teamwork environment and to improve resilience factors during emergency circumstances for critical infrastructures.

scholarly journals Research on Intelligent Supply Chain Management Under Unconventional Emergencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 03015
Author(s):  
Yonghui Cao ◽  
He Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Face ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Important Means

The harm of unconventional emergencies is increasingly prominent, which seriously restricts the sustainable development of society. Therefore, how to effectively deal with all kinds of unconventional emergencies and improve the ability of emergency management in the face of unconventional emergencies has attracted extensive attention from all walks of life. Therefore, the establishment of a sound emergency intelligent supply chain system is an important means to speed up the development of China’s emergency industry and enhance the emergency support capacity of government. This paper mainly analyzes the problems existing in China’s logistics system under unconventional emergencies, and puts forward the necessity and specific measures of introducing intelligent supply chain under unconventional emergencies.

Scanning x-ray fluorescence microscopy and principal component analysis

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1752-1753
Author(s):  
Brian Cross
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Fluorescence Microscope ◽  
Acquisition Rate ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Speed Up

A relatively new entry, in the field of microscopy, is the Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscope (SXRFM). Using this type of instrument (e.g. Kevex Omicron X-ray Microprobe), one can obtain multiple elemental x-ray images, from the analysis of materials which show heterogeneity. The SXRFM obtains images by collimating an x-ray beam (e.g. 100 μm diameter), and then scanning the sample with a high-speed x-y stage. To speed up the image acquisition, data is acquired "on-the-fly" by slew-scanning the stage along the x-axis, like a TV or SEM scan. To reduce the overhead from "fly-back," the images can be acquired by bi-directional scanning of the x-axis. This results in very little overhead with the re-positioning of the sample stage. The image acquisition rate is dominated by the x-ray acquisition rate. Therefore, the total x-ray image acquisition rate, using the SXRFM, is very comparable to an SEM. Although the x-ray spatial resolution of the SXRFM is worse than an SEM (say 100 vs. 2 μm), there are several other advantages.

Direct measurement of electron-diffraction-pattern intensities using an energy loss spectrometer

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 668-669
Author(s):  
A. G. Jackson ◽  
M. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Effects ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
Site Symmetry ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Parallel Acquisition ◽  
Kinematic Approximation ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Structure Calculations

Diffraction intensities from intermetallic compounds are, in the kinematic approximation, proportional to the scattering amplitude from the element doing the scattering. More detailed calculations have shown that site symmetry and occupation by various atom species also affects the intensity in a diffracted beam. [1] Hence, by measuring the intensities of beams, or their ratios, the occupancy can be estimated. Measurement of the intensity values also allows structure calculations to be made to determine the spatial distribution of the potentials doing the scattering. Thermal effects are also present as a background contribution. Inelastic effects such as loss or absorption/excitation complicate the intensity behavior, and dynamical theory is required to estimate the intensity value.The dynamic range of currents in diffracted beams can be 104or 105:1. Hence, detection of such information requires a means for collecting the intensity over a signal-to-noise range beyond that obtainable with a single film plate, which has a S/N of about 103:1. Although such a collection system is not available currently, a simple system consisting of instrumentation on an existing STEM can be used as a proof of concept which has a S/N of about 255:1, limited by the 8 bit pixel attributes used in the electronics. Use of 24 bit pixel attributes would easily allowthe desired noise range to be attained in the processing instrumentation. The S/N of the scintillator used by the photoelectron sensor is about 106 to 1, well beyond the S/N goal. The trade-off that must be made is the time for acquiring the signal, since the pattern can be obtained in seconds using film plates, compared to 10 to 20 minutes for a pattern to be acquired using the digital scan. Parallel acquisition would, of course, speed up this process immensely.

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