Seemingly these are foreign entities. Why research on disasters mitigation and response is not done in Pakistan? Where environmental disasters of every kind is a norm than exception?
If someone claim they have done something or doing something why they don't come to surface when the need comes?
Are right kind of people inducted in research? The universities administration don't have a clue how to help society in meaningful way? What is the source of failure? Institutional failure is also a norm in Pakistan. Is failure of universities related to (same causes) failure of other institutions in the country? Is it so that all good brains already gone to west and only garbage is left behind?
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: qamar_mahboob@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:49:42 +0100
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
Von: Syeda Umema Hani <umema_hani@yahoo.com>
An: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>; Usman Rafique <rafiqusman@hotmail.com>
Gesendet: 10:42 Mittwoch, 18.April 2012
Betreff: Re: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
From: qamar_mahboob@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:49:42 +0100
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
Following are two groups that are working on probabilistic modeling of risks arising from avalanche and other natural hazards.
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~adk/
http://www.era.bv.tum.de/index.php?id=5
One can download interesting presentations from their website, too. If one is interested in some of their wrok, please, leet me know.
Any way, it is time to start working on ''Risk-based decision making'' on engineering and natural systems.
Best Regards
Qamar Mahboob
(PhD student)
TU Dresden, Germany
Von: Syeda Umema Hani <umema_hani@yahoo.com>
An: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>; Usman Rafique <rafiqusman@hotmail.com>
Gesendet: 10:42 Mittwoch, 18.April 2012
Betreff: Re: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
Nice email brother ! I hope our high fi universities could make some effort in utilizing their research work in real life insahAllah.
With regards,
Syeda Umema Hani,
Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, www.ssuet.edu.pk,
PhD (Software Engineering) fellow, GSESIT, www.hamdard.edu.pk,
www.ssuet.edu.pk/~suhani, suhani@ssuet.edu.pk, ++92-21-111994994(STI department)
Syeda Umema Hani,
Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, www.ssuet.edu.pk,
PhD (Software Engineering) fellow, GSESIT, www.hamdard.edu.pk,
www.ssuet.edu.pk/~suhani, suhani@ssuet.edu.pk, ++92-21-111994994(STI department)
From: Usman Rafique <rafiqusman@hotmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 23:11
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 23:11
Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
I wonder what technologies could have been used to save lives of soldiers of Giari Sector in Siachin. How far our society and specially universities will have to go to get into the position to help the nation in the time of need?
For example there is a chip that uses nanotechnology to have sniffing power (meeting or even exceeding) to those of dogs and can be programmed for specialized ordors. Since dogs cannot sniff humans at such height of snow rubble and pin point exact locations of bodies, such chip could have been used at bore head to go inside snow for sniffing of human bodies. Similary some ground based sonar or radar waves could have been used.
This time is gone but how in future we can develop capacity (proactively) to take swift action to be able to help society in such citicial events? It is useless to expect national level stuff from private universities as they are busy counting cash, so all hope is from public sector universities that they come ahead and demonstrate their impact on society.
Regards,
Usman Rafique
For example there is a chip that uses nanotechnology to have sniffing power (meeting or even exceeding) to those of dogs and can be programmed for specialized ordors. Since dogs cannot sniff humans at such height of snow rubble and pin point exact locations of bodies, such chip could have been used at bore head to go inside snow for sniffing of human bodies. Similary some ground based sonar or radar waves could have been used.
This time is gone but how in future we can develop capacity (proactively) to take swift action to be able to help society in such citicial events? It is useless to expect national level stuff from private universities as they are busy counting cash, so all hope is from public sector universities that they come ahead and demonstrate their impact on society.
Regards,
Usman Rafique
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