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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...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

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...

Natural Disasters and Responsibilities of Employers to Employees

period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...

Need for Continued Service Protection

to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...

Windows Systems and Disaster Recovery

be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities 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...

Opinion Juxtaposition of Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John MacArthur and 1984 by George Orwell

conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...

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...

Disaster Recovery Planning and Information Technology

II. Five Elements of Disaster Recovery Planning IIa. Preparedness and Training In general, a great deal of planning is directe...

Continuity Planning for Small Business

Though the sheer volume of information at the site is daunting, it is an ideal place to begin learning about disaster recovery in ...

CULLMAN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

This 3-page paper, based on organizational structures during a crisis situation, discusses how Cullman Electric can prepare for di...

Vulnerable Population/Frail Elders

complex situations. One of the main problems will be elderly people and providing transport to shelter. However, once at an Amer...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Process of Grief Recovery After a Disaster

In five pages disaster and the need for grief counseling afterwards are discussed with a consideration of the Oklahoma City bombin...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

The Unthinkable - Surviving a Disaster

she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...

NASA, COLUMBIA AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

For example, right after the CAIB issued its report, Sean OKeefe, the NASA administrator at the time, publically accepted all reco...

Applying Burke and Litwin's Model

that the space shuttle Columbia had disintegrated. All seven members of the crew were lost. The Columbia had launched on January 1...

Managing Risk for a new IT/IS Installation

it is entered, unless it requires some alteration for legitimate purposes. General training of the system use will incorporate t...

Analysis of Large Non-Profit Organization

in the world. It is governed by a Board of Governors and operates under a legal Congressional charter. The Board conducts a self-a...

Aspects of Stress

3). It is when stress exceeds the individuals ability to cope that it becomes destructive. These destructive effects can be modera...

Article Analysis Related to Environmental Psychology

she was pushing mud off the porch and wiping furniture. More volunteers followed helping all the people who lived on that street. ...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

Social Vulnerability and Ache

had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...

The Leadership Problems of BP in the Context of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...

Response to Tuberculosis Outbreak

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response efforts. A 2012 response to a Colorado tuberculosis outbreak is e...

Government Agencies Coordinating

This paper begins by explaining the reasons it is difficult for different federal agencies and departments to operate with each ot...

IT System Contingency Planning Process

The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...