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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"fire fighters"”.
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Fire fighters' ability and willingness to participate in a pandemic
… infected with the flu virus during a pandemic. Fire departments should anticipate a higher attack rate for their personnel because of increased exposure risk. Additionally, many variables will negatively influence fire fighter participation rates over and above these attack rates. This thesis …
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Relationship of Core Self-Evaluations and Organizational Commitment in Volunteers and Fire Fighters
… and low-risk volunteers in addition to career fire fighters were surveyed regarding core self-evaluations and organizational commitment. Few differences were found between the three groups regarding the variables. All participants were identified as holding a similar fundamental self-evaluation …
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Determination of the physiological responses of female fire fighters while working in the heat
… determined the physiological responses of female fire fighters to two similar bouts of work in the heat. Peak heart rates (HR), peak oxygen consumption (VO2), peak rectal temperatures (Trec), peak mean skin temperature (MST), and ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) were compared between two work …
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The Effects of Job Stress of Fire Fighters in Gyeonggi Province on Occupational Injuries
… to investigate the effects of job stress of fire fighters on occupational injuries. For this study, we conducted a survey of all employees who work at Gwang Myeong, Gunpo, and Anyang fire station, which are geographically similar and neighboring each other but little different in …
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A Study on the Relationship between Fire fighters’ Stress and Condition of Their Health
It is getting frequent that fire engines are moving out to fight the fire, save people’s lives and rescue people from danger, and this increase in mobilization and a particular circumstance where they are put in danger are causing psychological stress. This study is a cross-sectional one for …
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The Relation between Post-Traumatic Stress and Depression in Korean Firefighter
… of post traumatic stress and depression among fire fighters. Data was collected from 126 male fire fighters with over one year of job experience in a fire station and a 119 safety center from August 23 to August 26, 2013. The level of post-traumatic stress was measured with IES-R-K standardized …
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The perception of the desirability of instituting peer Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing within a local Municipal Fire and Rescue Service
… the perceived desirability within a sample of fire fighters of introducing a peer Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing (CISO) support structure within the Fire and Rescue Services of Blaauwberg Municipality. The research took the form of a descriptive inquiry by means of a semi-structured …
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Hazards presented by pyrolysis and combustion products during laboratory experiments and real incidents
Heat, flame, smoke and fire gases are responsible for the vast majority of fire deaths and injuries and are all products of the chemical and physical processes that occur within fire. This is well known and supported by fire statistics but current fire safety does not directly consider these …
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Motivation, Test Preparation and Test Performance
… varied depending on the sample (i.e., fire fighter applicants or college students) and the context (i.e., written or Physical Ability Test, class exam, or final examination). The results for fire fighters indicated that motivation was related to written test performance but not to …
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Demand for Extinguishing Media in Manual Fire Fighting
… and intervention planning are important in fire prevention and risk management strategies. This study has shown that it is possible to use fire safety engineering models to estimate the development of fires on a realistic scale, and the corresponding requirement for extinguishing media. Data …
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Communication processes in the Hellenic fire corps: a comparative perspective
… in a front-line, emergency service – the fire brigade – in Greece, Germany and Britain. It is designed to identify the problems in the communication conduct among fire-fighters during emergency responses, to examine the causes of these problems and to suggest ways to overcome them that …
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Particle Filter Based Mosaicking for Forest Fire Tracking
… shape, and location characteristics of a forest fire. However, noise in measurements used to compute pose (location and attitude) of the on-board camera leads to significant errors in the processing of collected video data. Typical methods using MAVs to track fires attempt to find single …
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Public school employer and employee leaders' attitudes toward contract dispute resolution devices
… arbitration of contract disputes for police and fire fighters. Factfinding remained the terminal point in the intervention process for all other public sector disputes. The establishment of interest arbitration for "essential" public employees, i.e., police and fire fighters, saw a dramatic …
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Development And Evaluation Of A Firefighter Physical Performance Program For Undergraduate Fire And Safety Students
<p>The number one on-duty cause of death in the fire service is heart attacks. The International Association of Firefighters and the International Association of Fire Chiefs teamed up to create the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT). Fire departments across the nation will have consistent …
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The Design and Modeling of Ultra-Wideband Position-Location Networks
… include the location and command-and-control of fire-fighters in emergency scenarios, the location of military personnel deployed in urban or indoor environments, and the guidance of robots through large multi-room indoor environments. The main objective of this dissertation is to derive design …
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SPATIAL VARIABILITY IN FOREST FUELS: SIMULATION MODELING AND EFFECTS ON FIRE BEHAVIOR
… in fuel beds and an increasing human population. Fire management policy emphasizes fuel treatments, such as thinning and prescribed burning, to remedy this situation because fuels are the one component of the problem that we can directly affect through management action. At present, however, the …
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SPATIAL VARIABILITY IN FOREST FUELS: SIMULATION MODELING AND EFFECTS ON FIRE BEHAVIOR
… in fuel beds and an increasing human population. Fire management policy emphasizes fuel treatments, such as thinning and prescribed burning, to remedy this situation because fuels are the one component of the problem that we can directly affect through management action. At present, however, the …
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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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Essays in political economy
… and the performance of police officers, fire fighters and other municipal employees 1900-1940. Identification exploits the staggered timing of the reform in large municipalities using a differences-in-differences design. I find that civil service boards decreased the probability that …
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