They may be important not only for building preparedness, but also for maintaining sustained readiness and resilience beyond "the teachable moment".
Consequently, for sustained readiness it is imperative to address both the pertinent social-cognitive constructs of preparedness messaging [ 48, 81, 82], and the decisional balance between intention and action that an individual encounters after receiving readiness cues [ 112, 113, 150].
Many industries have preparedness exercises.
The level of preparedness was further increased and sustained with the advent of the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks because of H5N1's high fatality rate, although the strains currently prevalent have limited human-to-human transmission (anthroponotic) capability, or epidemicity.
With a lethality rate of approximately 60% in reported laboratory-confirmed human H5N1 cases (10), maximum preparedness is warranted in case sustained human-to-human transmission were to evolve.
Following damage sustained from Hurricane Sandy, city officials sought to improve their preparedness to provide health, water and sanitation services, as well as public safety, during disasters.
The goal for House Bill 5 is to provide students with earlier exposure and a coherent course sequence to increase preparedness and sustain interest in STEM careers (Mellor, Stoker, & Reese, 2015).
Indeed, a less aggressively partisan, more neutrally reported essay might have been more persuasive, an essay that included, for example, at least one sustained interview with a Pentagon official seriously addressing the question of sexual neutrality and military preparedness.
The preparedness report said that a little less than two-thirds of the companies in the United States had sustained cyberattacks and that "only 50percentt of owners and operators at high-priority facilities" like electrical grids said that they reported such attacks.
It shows sustained improvement".
