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Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

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Epidemics after Natural Disasters

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

It appeared to be mostly a compilation-based study, amassing and comparing previously completed research to reach the conclusion and build the argument in the paper. Primarily, the author cited outside sources for all of the “heavy-lifting” science, and was primarily drawing the over-arching conclusion about the relationship between natural disasters and epidemics.

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EMTs turn in NYPD officers who beat handcuffed patient

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How did the author of the article conduct their research?

They used statements and reports from both the ambulance agency and FDNY.

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

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What events (internal and external) or data have had a significant impact on the evolution of the organization?

The organization was founded because of the experience of volunteer Red Cross doctors. These doctors wanted to tell others what they had seen and to help bring more aid to those that are suffering.

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When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers

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What is the main point of the article, and how is it supported?

That companies are destroying what EMS and Fire should be by making it hard financially in many ways to sustain an agency. It is supported with past news articles, events involving the industry and related companies, and personal expereinces through interviews.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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What is the central argument or narrative of the film?

The central narrative of the film is the many complications, setbacks, and incrediable challenges that the first responders of 9/11 faced when attempting to medically aid the many victims of the disaster.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed?

It has been cited 5 times, in three papers (The World Trade Center Analyses: Case Study of Ethics, Public Policy and the Engineering Profession; Engineering Risk and Disaster: Disaster-STS and the American History of technology; Making Sense of Disaster) and two books (Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Crimonology; The Martians Have Landed!: A history of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes).