Essays about: "number of fatalities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words number of fatalities.

  1. 1. Anatomy of corruption in humanitarian assistance: a retrospective analysis of emergency response operations of the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia (2014 – 2016)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Elisha Lawodo Bloe; [2023]
    Keywords : emergency response and recovery; humanitarian assistance; corruption; Ebola virus disease;

    Abstract : This study critically explores the pervasive issue of corruption in humanitarian assistance, focusing on the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from 2014-2016. For a country grappling with broken infrastructure and fragile healthcare systems due to a 14-year-long civil war, the Ebola crisis in Liberia was an unprecedented disaster as evidenced by 10,672 recorded cases and 4,808 reported fatalities between 2014 and 2016. READ MORE

  3. 2. Manoeuvre Coordination : Assuring safety in overtaking

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

    Author : Qusay Sakhnini; Mohammad Suleiman; [2023]
    Keywords : CCAM; V2V; Vision Zero; ADAS; ITS; CA; CP; IS; MC;

    Abstract : The frightful statistics regarding road accidents draws a dreadful picture for individuals, communities, and nations across the globe. The number of fatalities exceeds a million every year. To address this issue, an initiative called Vision Zero was introduced first in Sweden 1997. READ MORE

  4. 3. Prediction of Air Quality Index Using Supervised Machine Learning

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

    Author : Vamsi Sri Naga Manikanta Murukonda; Avan Chowdary Gogineni; [2022]
    Keywords : Air Quality Index; Air Quality Monitoring; Machine Learning; Regression;

    Abstract : Background: Air pollution has become a serious environmental issue. It is responsible for hundreds of fatalities each year and it poses a serious threat to human health and environment. It leads to global warming, greenhouse effect and it also causes respiratory problems like asthma, lung cancer etc. READ MORE

  5. 4. An agent-based model approach to computational epidemiology

    University essay from KTH/Datavetenskap

    Author : Max Wiktorsson; Emil Franzell; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of this work was to compare different Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in a simulated environment modeling Sweden with 10 000 000 (ten million) agents. Simulating the performance of these NPIs can be beneficial to policymakers and other government officials in order to give the power to make the right decision in the face of an epidemic. READ MORE

  6. 5. Shaky Growth: Chile's earthquake and its effect on GDP. Did the 2010 earthquake change Chile's growth path? Evidence of a synthetic control study

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Santiago Benguria; [2022]
    Keywords : synthetic control method; quasi-experimental study; earthquake; Chile; natural disasters;

    Abstract : This quasi-experimental study analyses the effects of the 2010 Chile earthquake and finds an effect GDP per capita in the years following the event, by using the synthetic control method. After the shock, the country experienced an increase of 7% on GDP per capita on average, an effect which is significant yet only transitory as Chile and its counterfactual catch up again 5 years after the event. READ MORE