Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks demonstrates how strategies and state-of-the-art ICT have and/or could be applied to serve as a vehicle to advance disaster management approaches, decisions and practices. This book provides both a conceptual and practical guidance to disaster management while also identifying and developing effective and efficient approaches, mechanisms, and systems using emerging technologies to support an effective operation. This state-of-the-art reference collection attempts to prompt the future direction for disaster managers to identify applicable theories and practices in order to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from various foreseen and/or unforeseen disasters.
Author(s): Willie van Peer
Series: Premier Reference Source
Edition: first
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 254
Title
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Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 26
Authorship Attribution and the DigitalHumanities Curriculum......Page 32
Multivariate Analysisof Stance in Fiction: A Case Study......Page 53
Literary Onomastics and Language Technology......Page 84
Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact......Page 110
tEXtMACHINA: Or How to Account for the Methodological Particularities of the Humanities in the E-Learning Field......Page 133
Plays Well with Others: The Value of Developing Multiplayer Digital Gamespaces for Literary Education......Page 161
Teaching Shakespeare in the Elementary School through Dramatic Activity, Play Production, and Technology: A Case Study......Page 188
Afterword......Page 218
Compilation of References......Page 230
about the contributors......Page 246
Index......Page 251
