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Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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Title: Telemedicine Backpack: Helping Rescue Teams to Send Vital Sign Measurements to Healthcare Professionals in Inaccessible Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Avellanas M., Mayo S., Rodrigálvarez V., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Cooperation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 as part of STIPP Project and with the aim of i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-55.pdf
Keywords: telemedicine, backpack, mountain, healthcare, rescue, accident, vital signs, ecg
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Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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Title: Progression en Terrain Enneigé Progression in a Snowy Environment
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
Description: Whether it is in winter, in summer or still for a journey, the guide is very often brought to evolve in snowy environment. Beyond this, he is the onl...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-04.pdf
Keywords: management, constraints, tools, project
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Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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Title: Ride Hard, Ride Safe! Val d'Isère
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Henry Schniewind, Renaud Lobry
Description: This presentation shows how, in 2010, Val d'Isère with Henry's Avalanche Talk (HAT) put into place a safety and communication campaign aimed primar...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-22.pdf
Keywords: skiing, off-piste, avalanche, awareness, safety
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Title: The Canadian Approach to Professional Avalanche Training
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Emily L. Grady
Description: Canada is in a unique position with: low-density populations scattered over large mountainous areas of differing snow conditions; limited access to go...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-31.pdf
Keywords: professional avalanche training, canada, avalanche industry, avalanche education
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Title: New Technologies: What Roles in the Education and Training? Feedback and Examples
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alain Duclos, Thierry Vallée
Description: Educate, train, improve knowledge: new technologies offer attractive opportunities, but may also have adverse effects. What are these "New Technologie...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-39.pdf
Keywords: social networks, mobile, open data, good practices, education, safety
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Title: Establishing an Avalanche Community and Communication in Japan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Degawa Azusa, Hirota Yusuke
Description: In any country, the process of establishing a community aimed at avalanche safety and the characteristics of the community are influenced a great deal...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-41.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulletin, avalanche community, communication
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Title: Visualizing Snow Profiles
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthias Gerber, Charles Fierz, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The introduction of the CAAML 5.0 Profile for IACS Snow Profiles (Haegeli et al., 2010) created the necessary foundation for facilitating the exchange...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-44.pdf
Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml 5.0, iacs, snow profile, visualization
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Title: Vulnerability: Caught in an Avalanche – Then What are the Odds?
Date: 2012
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Alan S.T. Jones
Description: Vulnerability is an essential component in qualitative and quantitative avalanche risk analyses. It is the probable consequences given that the eleme...
Object ID: issw-2012-001-008.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability, avalanche properties, destructive avalanches, avalanche risk management, hazard index,
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Title: Vision Zero: Applying Road Safety to Avalanche Safety
Date: 2012
Authors: Dale Atkins, Magnus Granhed
Description: In 1997 the Swedish Parliament mandated that road fatalities and serious accidents be reduced to zero by 2020. To achieve this extraordinary directive...
Object ID: issw-2012-016-022.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accidents, fatalities, road safety, vision zero, sweden, united states
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Title: The Avalx Public Avalanche Forecasting System
Date: 2012
Authors: Grant Statham, Scott Campbell, Karl Klassen
Description: In November 2011, Parks Canada, the Canadian Avalanche Centre and Alberta Parks Kananaskis Country launched a new avalanche bulletin system named Aval...
Object ID: issw-2012-165-171.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard assessment, canadian avalanche centre
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Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for “Marking” During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust
Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...
Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety
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Title: On the Effectiveness of Avalanche Balloon Packs
Date: 2012
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Benjamin Zweifel, Frédéric Jarry, Spencer Logan, Hanno Bilek, Marek Biskupič, Hermann Brugger, Markus Falk
Description: Even though avalanche balloon packs have been promoted in Europe since the early 1990s, they have only truly established themselves as an accepted av...
Object ID: issw-2012-324-328.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche balloon packs, avalanche airbags, avalanche survival
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