Browsing by Subject "Disasters"

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      Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents 

      Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Stavrou, S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. The framework is video modality and infrastructure ...
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      Analysis of volatile organic compounds released from the decay of surrogate human models simulating victims of collapsed buildings by thermal desorption-comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time of flight mass spectrometry 

      Agapiou, Agapios; Zorba, Eleni; Mikedi, Katerina; McGregor, L.; Spiliopoulou, C.; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. (2015)
      Field experiments were devised to mimic the entrapment conditions under the rubble of collapsed buildings aiming to investigate the evolution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the early dead body decomposition ...
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      Dark Light: Utopia and the Question of Relative Surplus Population 

      Balasopoulos, Antonis (2016)
      This article addresses the question of the actuality of Sir Thomas More's Utopia by arguing for the centrality within More's text of the question of forcibly displaced and economically “surplused” populations. Drawing upon ...
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      A grid-enabled digital library system for natural disaster metadata 

      Xing, Wei; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Yang, Hua; Sphyris, Angelos; Eftichidis, George (2005)
      The need to organize and publish metadata about European research results in the field of natural disasters has been met with the help of two innovative technologies: the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) and the ...
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      Immediate impact of Hurricane Sandy on people who inject drugs in New York City 

      Pouget, E. R.; Sandoval, M.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Friedman, Samuel R. (2015)
      Over the eight months following Hurricane Sandy, of October 2012, we interviewed 300 people who inject drugs in New York City. During the week after the storm, 28% rescued others or volunteered with aid groups; 60% experienced ...
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      Permeation profiles of potential urine-borne biomarkers of human presence over brick and concrete 

      Mochalski, Paweł; Agapiou, Agapios; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Amann, Anton (2012)
      Headspace solid phase micro-extraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS) analysis was performed over an in-house made filling chamber loaded with brick or concrete, mimicking a potential entrapment scene ...
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      Physiology and biochemistry of human subjects during entrapment 

      Agapiou, Agapios; Mikedi, Katerina; Karma, Sofia; Giotaki, Zoe K.; Kolostoumbis, D.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos Ch; Zorba, Eleni; Spiliopoulou, C.; Amann, Anton; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. (2013)
      A classification of various categories of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings after earthquakes, technical failures or explosions is proposed. Type and degree of injury at the moment of building collapse ...
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      PortSec: A port security risk analysis and resource allocation system 

      Orosz, Michael D.; Southwell, C.; Barrett, A.; Chen, J.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Abadi, A.; Maya, Isaac (2010)
      Ports are important nodal points that stimulate the US economy. This is particularly true of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (POLA/LB). Over 40% of all containers shipped to and out of the US flow through this ...
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      Temporal profiling of human urine VOCs and its potential role under the ruins of collapsed buildings 

      Mochalski, Paweł; Krapf, K.; Ager, C.; Wiesenhofer, H.; Agapiou, Agapios; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Fuchs, D.; Ellmerer, E.; Buszewski, B.; Amann, Anton (2012)
      Context: The scent profile of human urine was investigated as potential source of chemical markers of human presence in collapsed buildings after natural or man-made disasters. Objective: The main goals of this study were ...
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      The trapped human experiment 

      Huo, R.; Agapiou, Agapios; Bocos-Bintintan, V.; Brown, L. J.; Burns, C.; Creaser, C. S.; Devenport, N. A.; Gao-Lau, B.; Guallar-Hoyas, C.; Hildebrand, L.; Malkar, A.; Martin, H. J.; Moll, V. H.; Patel, P.; Ratiu, A.; Reynolds, J. C.; Sielemann, S.; Slodzynski, R.; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Turner, M. A.; Vautz, W.; Wright, V. E.; Thomas, Charles Lawrence Paul (2011)
      This experiment observed the evolution of metabolite plumes from a human trapped in a simulation of a collapsed building. Ten participants took it in turns over five days to lie in a simulation of a collapsed building and ...