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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Fire risk"”.
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Decision Making in Fire Risk Management
… theories are discussed in the context of fire risk management. A method suitable for practical decision making in respect to fire safety investments is presented and exemplified. The method involves the use of second-order probabilities to represent uncertainty regarding probability …
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Influence of climate uncertainties on western U.S fire risk projections
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
Wildland fires in the United States are not always confined to wilderness areas. The growth of population centers and housing developments in wilderness areas has blurred the boundaries between rural and urban. This merger of human development and natural landscape is known in the wildland fire …
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Community Based Fire Risk Reduction - Case Study of Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… that they experience disasters very differently. Fires across Cape Town informal settlements have been well publicised following a number of devastating fires in recent years, but limited local research has been conducted in this and urban design for disaster risk reduction. Planning has the …
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A Needs Assessment Regarding a Fire Risk Assessment Checklist In the Operating Room
Background: A surgical fire in the operating room (OR) is a devastating hazard that carries the weight of high morbidity and mortality. Through acknowledgment of fire risks among all OR team members, proper education, and training, as well as effective communication, a surgical fire in the OR is a …
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Machine Learning-Driven Uncertainty Quantification and Parameter Analysis in Fire Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants
Fire poses a critical risk to the safe operation of nuclear power plants (NPPs), with electrical cabinet and liquid spill fires being among the most frequent and challenging scenarios to address. Traditional fire risk assessment models often lack precision due to complex physics and inherent …
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Economic Welfare Of Firefighting Service In Detroit
… 1 is concerned with the effect of public fire service quality on individual utility. I develop a theoretical model to account for fire risk as a function of socio-economic, housing, and spatial factors. I review relevant literature on certain inherent public fire service issues regarding …
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Remote sensing to characterise vegetation fuel moisture content in the UK uplands
Wildfires are an important hazard globally as they lead to significant land degradation, carbon losses and impact on human activities. Recent research has demonstrated how dynamic fire risk estimates can be informed by the use of remote sensing technology. The focus here is on improving methods for …
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PyrSat - Prevention and response to wild fires with an intelligent Earth observation CubeSat
Forest fires are a pervasive and serious problem. Besides loss of life and extensive environmental damage, fires also result in substantial economic losses, not to mention property damage, injuries, displacements and hardships experienced by the affected citizens. This project proposes a low-cost …
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How fire risks should be managed in enclosed Australian shopping centres
The purpose of this research is to study fire risk management in enclosed shopping centres. Enclosed shopping centres are commercial buildings and as such are regulated as commercial buildings. Over the past decades, there have been a large number of enclosed shopping centres built across the …
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Prescribed Fire in a Florida Landscape with Mixed Ownership: Spatial Interactions
Across the U.S., wildfires have become increasingly destructive and costly over the past few decades, with impacts particularly severe in the State of Florida. Because of an increase in wildfire frequency and severity and the number of people living in fire-prone areas the issue of wildfire risk …
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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Siberian Wildfires and Impacts from Meteorological and Climatic Factors
Wildfire is a major disturbance affecting carbon cycling, land–atmosphere energy exchange, and ecological security in high-latitude ecosystems. Siberia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and the spatiotemporal variability of its wildfire activity …
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Climate Drivers Compound Under Climate Change
… impacts upon seasonal rainfall, temperature and fire risk. In south-east Australia, there is some evidence that large scale fire seasons are more likely to occur when there are compounding impacts from more than one driver. Seasonal impacts on rainfall and temperature can also be stronger when …
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Climate Drivers Compound Under Climate Change
… impacts upon seasonal rainfall, temperature and fire risk. In south-east Australia, there is some evidence that large scale fire seasons are more likely to occur when there are compounding impacts from more than one driver. Seasonal impacts on rainfall and temperature can also be stronger when …
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Encapsulation of Waste in Cementitious Systems for use in Civil Engineering Applications
… concrete may be of particular benefit in low fire risk buildings such as sport centres and playgrounds, farmhouses, DIY outlets, outbuildings, storage units, garden centres among others. The high porosity of the encapsulated plastic concrete may also distinguish them as pervious concrete …
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The removal of nitrogen and phosphorus in anoxic-aerobic digestion of waste activated sludge from biological nutrient removal systems
… to operate requiring airtight containers with fire risk, heating and much recycling. In anoxic-aerobic digestion, the nitrogen is removed by nitrification-denitrification, which has the added advantages of reducing the digester's oxygen demand and recovering some of the alkalinity lost in …
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Flammability traits of fynbos species with different post-fire regeneration strategies
Wild fire is an important disturbance regime that shape global biome distributions and maintain the structure, function and biological diversity of plant communities in fire-prone environments. Physical, chemical and architectural properties are known to affect plant flammability, but few studies …
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Hydrologic Controls on Ecosystem Structure and Function in the Great Dismal Swamp
… loss through decomposition and increased peat fire frequency and severity. Installation of ditch control structures aim to control drainage and re-establish historical hydrology, vegetation communities, peat accretion rates, and fire regime. To help inform restoration and management, we …
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The development of automatic fire protection methods for computing and telecommunications areas
… disruption, as downtime resulting from a fire condition could lead to huge financial losses. Minimising negative impact on an organization and the need for a sound basis in the decision making process are the fundamental reasons why companies implement fire risk management for their …
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