Brunswicker and Vanhaverbeke (2014) identified five strategies that SMEs adopt for searching: (1) minimal searchers, (2) supply-chain searchers, (3) technology-oriented searchers, (4) application-oriented searchers, and (5) full-scope searchers.
Between Oct. 3 and Oct. 18, searchers found 484 carcasses, which were analyzed by biologists.
So far, more than 42,000 pieces of shuttle debris have been recovered by 10,000 searchers in 16 Texas counties.
"We can set up a small city within a matter of hours," said Ron Romero, leader of a team of 40 searchers.
The group is made up of emergency medical technicians, including firefighters, paramedics, logistics and communication specialists, structural engineers, doctors, chaplains and K-9 searchers.
Mr. Taylor was among some 400 searchers who combed the area for the boy for four days before finding the body.
Here in Kesennuma, about 800 searchers are deployed in all, outfitted in mud boots and slickers and carrying the tools of their trade.
"How do 300 searchers, with 80 to 100 men on the ground, search a major nation with hundreds or thousands of facilities and mobile assets?" asked Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in a report last week.
Two helicopters and 80 searchers tried to find Robert Atkin, 26, in the Kaueranga valley near the town of Thames on North Island, but they were worried he might be heading deeper into the rugged bushland instead of staying in one spot.
By comparing different terms, from the technical name "H5N1" to "avian flu" to the more basic "bird flu" he tried to show how a spike in interest first appeared among what he presumes was the scientific community (H5N1 searchers) and then quickly spread to the general public.
