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Children's Religious Coping Following Residential Fires: An Exploratory Study
… and long-term PTSD symptomatology following the residential fires. Results from the mixed-effects regression indicated that loss, time since the fire, child's age, race, and race by age interaction significantly predicted children's PTSD symptoms over time. However, time specific regression …
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Analysis of tenability, ventilation, and water application in large-scale residential fires
"This study presents the analysis of large-scale residential fire experiments that were performed at Underwriters Laboratories in Northbrook, Illinois. These experiments were focused on the tenability conditions within residential fire environments and the effect of ventilation and water …
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Occupant tenability in large-scale residential fires: an analysis of heat exposure, toxic gases, water application, and fire-service ventilation
The fire dynamics of residential fires has been drastically changing in the past 50 years. Modern fires burn faster and produce more toxic gases due to the increased presence of synthetic materials and plastics in the fire environment. In order to gain a better understanding of the risks present in …
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The Role of Self-Worth, Social Support, and Family Religious Environment in Children and Adolescents' Religious Coping following Residential Fires
… and adolescents, ages 8 to 18, following residential fire. Two types of children's religious coping, spiritually based coping and religious discontent, were examined in response to loss of resources in residential fires. The study further examined the influence and potential moderating …
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Risk Factors and Incidence of Residential Fire Experiences Reported Retrospectively
The frequency of all residential fires that are attended by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade is routinely recorded and hence well known. However, the frequency of residential fires which are not attended, including instances where the occupant of a dwelling has extinguished the fire or the …
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Fire Hazard of the Contemporary American Home
… direct property damage for one- and two- family residential fires is estimated as $5.9 billion in the United States. Recent research has suggested that the level of fire hazard in contemporary homes is greater than legacy homes. This study utilizes national fire incident data from 2003 to 2010 to …
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Examination of risk factors and mental health status in an adult accidental fire death population 1998 -2005.
… research has demonstrated that people who die in residential fires display a number of environmental, demographic and/or behavioural risk characteristics. The current research has been organised into two studies. Study one had two aims with the first aim to develop the Victoria University (VU) …
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Effects of Burn Injury on Biological Ethanol and Ethyl Glucuronide Concentrations
… present in biological specimens from fatal residential fires and forensic toxicologists must interpret if these individuals are impaired by determination of their blood alcohol concentrations on post-incineration blood collected at autopsy. There is no known data available to confirm or …
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Mattress fires and their effect on the destruction and distribution of remains in a house-fire setting
… necessary to recover and identify remains from residential fires, with the goal being to identify the deceased and to determine the sequence of events leading up to and during the fire.</p> <p>This research addresses the very specific scenario of fire fatalities that involve bed-settings with …
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Predicting toxic gas concentrations resulting from enclosure fires using the local equivalence ratio concept linked to fire field models
… and movement of toxic gases in enclosure fires. The developed toxicity models should be capable of working within the framework of the current popular combustion models in fire safety engineering. In addition, the developed models should not rely too heavily on hard to obtain experimental …
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Coping Strategies Form Systems that Regulate PTSD Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Regulatory Hypothesis
This study investigated the potential regulatory effects of various coping strategies on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It first divided PTSD symptoms and selected coping strategies into cognitive, social/motivational, and emotional types. The study then conceptualized each of the preceding …
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On quantification of hydrogen cyanide in residential fire environments and its implications on occupant tenability
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Development and testing of real-time tunable diode laser based water vapor measurement system
… the structure. However, for the same fuel load, fires in concrete structure recorded the highest temperature while fires in dry wall structure generated higher water vapor concentration. Concrete structure was found to absorb the least amount of energy from the fire. Dry wall structure, made of …