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Researchers at Northwestern used a new budget modeling approach to analyze optimal allocation of the Homeland Security budget for 10 major urban areas in the U.S. They found that New York City and Chicago are both underfunded. “Our new methodology, called robust-weighted sum optimization, offers a different perspective on how Homeland Security funds might be allocated,” says lead researcher Sanjay Mehrotra. (Credit: Blink+/Flickr)
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Of the 10 urban areas in the United States receiving the most funding to fight terrorism threats, both New York City and Chicago appear to be underfunded, while Los Angeles appears overfunded. Continue…
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Quake drill points to shaky communication
U. COLORADO (US)—Researchers who devised the largest earthquake preparedness event ever undertaken in the United States say one of the biggest challenges was translating devastation projections from a hypothetical magnitude 7.8 San Andreas Fault temblor into timely, usable information to the more than 5 million California participants in 2008. (more…)
