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Dealing with Disaster using Computer Networks

1. Domain Sizing and Capacity Planning for Windows NT Server 4.0 (reproduced from Microsoft Corporation, 2002) Number SAM Reg...

Emergency Preparedness and Governmental Crisis Protection

state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...

Chicago Heat Wave in Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

other words, events such as the many deaths as a result of the Chicago heat wave would not occur if society was more aware of the ...

Disaster Recovery Planning

A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...

Disaster at Floreffe, PA's Ashland Oil Company

until the leaks had been plugged. A crisis management team was formed at the company headquarters in Ashland, Kentucky, and plans ...

Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

Cattle Disaster in Europe

Sullivan (2001) noted, "The only problem with foot-and-mouth disease is that it weakens the infected animals for a period of time,...

Piper Alpha Oil Platform Catastrophe of 1988

some of the fire walls and soon the stored oil was burning. In addition, the automatic deluge system which was supposed to spray w...

Small Business and Disaster Recovery

company was located. While no one was able to access the building, real estate sales continued in less affected areas of the city...

Small Business Disaster Recovery

assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...

Small Business Disaster Recovery Alternatives

It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...

Hindenburg Dirigible Catastrophe of 1937

over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...

Investigationg the L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse

might have happened on that fateful day, it seems that lift-slab construction is a good part of the reason for the collapse. At le...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

Hurricanes and Disaster Preparedness

The news media is a necessary addition to the planning and regulatory agencies. It will be the medias job to make the public awar...

Quantitative Survey 'Corporate support in the aftermath of a natural disaster: effects on employee strains' Review

briefest of abstracts is included with the article. The abstract gives only a small bit of information and makes no comment on th...

Air Crash Disasters

management of risk itself takes place in several stages. The first need to be the identification and assessment of the potential r...

Disaster Preparedness for Travis County Texas

in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...

Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster

of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the...

Disaster Relief and the United Nation's Style of Leadership

efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...

Fictitious Nuclear Accident and Congressional Reactor Shutdown

Congress has called for the closure of light water reactors throughout the United States. A legislator in the State of Wisconsin ...

Disaster Funding and the Federal Government's Role

they work under this governmental model. The Commerce Clause says the government will have power: "To exercise exclusive Legisla...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Prevention or Minimization of Natural Disasters and Terrorism

did X, Y would not have happened." Of course, they cannot know this for sure. At the same time, throwing up ones hands and claimin...

Advertising and the Use of Ebonics

blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...

Burke Litwin Model Used to Assess the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

wide range of potential categories of issues" (2002 LaRC Organizational Performance Survey, 2003; p. A6) such as was the case in t...

Disaster and Continuity Planning

bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...