The role of electronic payments in disaster recovery: providing more than convenience

On May 3-4, 2006, the Payment Cards Center hosted a two-day conference titled “The Role of Electronic Payments in Disaster Recovery: Providing More Than Convenience.” The event brought together participants from a range of groups, including financial institutions and other financial service providers; federal and state government and national relief agencies; and the bank regulatory community. Participants examined the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and considered how these experiences may be useful in identifying opportunities to further strengthen the financial system’s response to future catastrophic events.Disaster relief

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2003 Educational Programs: A Listing of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Programs

Listing of 2003 conferences, training and educational programs hosted by Blue Cross and Blues Shield Association (BCBSA). Includes January 21, 2003 Memorandum from Paul Canchester to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan Executives, regarding BCBSA Conferences. Also includes, Executive Leadership Forum: A Blue Cross and Blues Shield Association Executive Program

Database Principles and Technologies – Based on Huawei GaussDB

This open access book contains eight chapters that deal with database technologies, including the development history of database, database fundamentals, introduction to SQL syntax, classification of SQL syntax, database security fundamentals, database development environment, database design fundamentals, and the application of Huawei’s cloud database product GaussDB database. This book can be used as a textbook for database courses in colleges and universities, and is also suitable as a reference book for the HCIA-GaussDB V1.5 certification examination. The Huawei GaussDB (for MySQL) used in the book is a Huawei cloud-based high-performance, highly applicable relational database that fully supports the syntax and functionality of the open source database MySQL. All the experiments in this book can be run on this database platform. As the world’s leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and smart terminals, Huawei’s products range from digital data communication, cyber security, wireless technology, data storage, cloud computing, and smart computing to artificial intelligence

Dynamic Modelling of Local Government Wealth when Shocked by Natural Disasters

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on August 29th of 2005. It is the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Communities across the country are increasingly at risk of being affected by natural and environmental disasters. The Public Assistance Grant Program (PA Program) administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is available for states and communities that have received a major or emergency disaster declaration. Most of Emergency Management (EM) research has focused on preparedness and mitigation activities; considerably less research has studied post disaster response. Two of the initial and most important aspects of disaster response and recovery operations are the removal and disposal of debris from the disaster-affected area. This study assesses local government’s debris removal management decisions and how they impact their net wealth in the long run by using local government financial data from audited financial statements and post disaster data from the Louisiana Public Assistance database. Variables from transaction cost theory and similarity hypothesis are included as right hand side variables to explain the choice of outsourcing versus internal procurement of debris removal. A System Dynamics model is then built using the regression results and it incorporates debris removal decisions in the context of assumptions about future storm characteristics (i.e. frequency and severity) as well as the current capital and debt financial accounts of a rural parish government in Louisiana