The magnitude of urban disasters in high population densities – combined with complex social, political, economic and institutional environments – has challenged the manner in which humanitarian ...

Several bioinformatics methods have recently been developed that exploit the genomic context of genes to predict functions for the encoded proteins. These approaches analyze gene fusion 1,2, gene ...

The Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is an internationally accepted methodology for determining the physical damages, economic losses, and costs of meeting recovery needs after a natural disaster ...