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Chief Editor: Rafal Marszalek, PhD; Springer Nature, UK
Rafal's background is analytical and biological chemistry. He did his PhD and postdoctoral research in single-cell proteomics at Imperial College London, UK. He was an editor at Genome Biology before joining Scientific Reports in August
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Deputy Editor: Elizabeth Mann, PhD; Springer Nature, UK
Elizabeth has a background in pharmacology and completed her PhD in neuropharmacology at King's College London, UK. She joined Scientific Reports in January
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Deputy Editor: Sweta Naik, PhD; Springer Nature, India
Sweta has a background in Nanochemistry and completed her PhD in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Her interests lie in nanoparticle design and applications. Sweta joined S • One of the major concerns in any emergency relief operation is appropriate allocation of scarce emergency relief materials to the affected community. Due to several reasons ranging from lack of mechanism to accurately assess demand and utility of relief materials to malicious participation of some of the stakeholders, such allocation may become ad-hoc. Thus, it becomes imperative to have an unchallengeable and globally accessible record of relief requirement vis-à-vis allocation for efficient relief management. Emergency response organizations (e.g. UNICEF) have recommended the adoption of blockchain technology to create such immutable records. However, the usage of blockchain is restricted by the availability of end-to-end internet connection which may not be available in a post-disaster scenario. This paper proposes ReliefChain, a blockchain leveraged post disaster relief allocation system over delay tolerant network that works in such environments. We validate relief requirements to mitigate resource diversion, forecasting the exact demand and enumerating precise utilities of relief items. We design smart contracts for creating new transactions to upload relief re ReliefChain: A blockchain leveraged post disaster relief allocation system over smartphone-based DTN
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