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MY SAY: Hypocrisy exposed in Haiti by Abd Razak, Dzulkifli

“…Suddenly, Haiti is on everyone's radar screen, barely a month after the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in early December last year. …”
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Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness by Durkin, Hannah

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Geographical perspectives on epidemic transmission of cholera in Haiti, October 2010 through March 2013 by Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Cliff, Andrew, Barford, Anna

“…The current epidemic of El Tor cholera in the Caribbean republic of Haiti is one of the largest single outbreaks of the disease ever recorded. …”
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Improving the Coordination of Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains: The 2010 Haiti Crisis Case Study by Lamlenn, Laura L

“…This where the main points around which the lessons to be learned were drawn: Improving national preparedness, improving strategic planning, the need for more experienced personnel Improving overall humanitarian coordination and the missed opportunities: exploiting relationships with the private sector Originality/value –The situation in Haiti was different from other large scale crisis, thus the examination of problems experienced in this unique situation should reveal new lessons to be learned for better coordination in the future. …”
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The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition by Asquith, Wendy

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Disaster assistance: determinants of countries around the world contributing towards disaster donations by Wei, J., Marinova, Dora, Zhao, D.

“…Foreign responses after Hurricane Katrina and the Wenchuan and Haiti earthquakes varied. The cluster analysis in this paper shows that 35 countries were preferentially US-oriented, 47 Haiti-oriented, 33 China-oriented, 33 had no explicit orientation and 32 did not offer assistance. …”
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Disentangling diphtheria: an investigation into its persistence worldwide by Ikejezie, Juniorcaius

“…The disease has severely affected Haiti, a country that is also facing vulnerability to natural disasters, concurrent health crises, and civil unrest. …”
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Remittance and growth nexus: bootstrap panel granger-causality evidence from high remittance receiving countries by Ali, Hamisu Sadi, Law, Siong Hook, Yusop, Zulkornain

“…However, bidirectional causality exists in the case of Haiti whereby remittances cause economic growth and vice versa. …”
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Earthquake and humanitarian assistance: A beauty queen approach. by Lai, Kien Wee

“…A 7.0 magnitude of quake strikes near Port Au Prince, Haiti affecting 3,500,000 people where 200,000 of them are estimated dead. …”
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Rating crowdsourced annotations: evaluating contributions of variable quality and completeness by Foody, Giles M.

“…The practical potential of this ability to obtain accuracy information within the geospatial sciences and the realm of Digital Earth applications was indicated with reference to an evaluation of building damage maps produced by multiple bodies after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Critically, the method allowed data-sets to be ranked in approximately the correct order of accuracy and this could help ensure that the most appropriate data-sets are used.…”
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Re-imaging Palestine in selected poems from Handal’s the lives of rain by Aman, Yasser Khamis Ragab

“…Handal is a French-American poet, born in Haiti to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in different places in Europe, the US and Arab World. …”
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BDD-Net: an end-to-end multiscale residual CNN for earthquake-induced building damage detection by Seydi, Seyd Teymoor, Rastiveis, Heidar, Kalantar, Bahareh, Abdul Halin, Alfian, Ueda, Naonori

“…The performance of BDD-Net is evaluated under three different phases, using optical and Lidar datasets for the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. The three main phases are: (1) data preprocessing and building footprint extraction based on building vector maps, (2) sample data preparation and data augmentation, and (3) model optimization and building damage map generation. …”
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Humanitarian Assistance and the Role of Customs in Expediting Aid Consignments across Borders by Kokkengada, Subramani Muthanna

“…In the case of humanitarian aid consignments there exists a lot of procedures and documentation which have to be given a lot of importance when considering the clearance of these consignments as their requirement is a necessity to those vulnerable during the aftermath, thus the legal frame work along with steps taken by humanitarians to make the entire process less tedious and more smooth are explained in detail through this dissertation. The case of Haiti has been considered to take a look at the working of Humanitarian assistance groups and the way they dealt with the situation at hand and how help was received from across the world but the means to reach it to the survivors was the toughest part of the entire operation, what the customs procedures were in order for consignments to enter and be received by the Haitian population is also been focused at in the dissertation. …”
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