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Device-induced thrombosis remains a major complication of extracorporeal life support (ECLS). To more thoroughly understand how blood components interact with the artificial surfaces of ECLS circuit components, assessment of clot deposition on these ...
Yanyi Zang +10 more
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The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of panic on evacuation time. Evacuation is the movement of individuals from a place in danger to a safer place.
Ghaitsa Deiwa Karufa, Defri Ahmad
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A Clinical‐Scale Microfluidic Respiratory Assist Device with 3D Branching Vascular Networks
Recent global events such as COVID‐19 pandemic amid rising rates of chronic lung diseases highlight the need for safer, simpler, and more available treatments for respiratory failure, with increasing interest in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Brett C. Isenberg +16 more
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Introduction: Shortage of health workers is a worldwide problem but is particularly critical in sub-Saharan Africa. In Mali, the number of health workers is insufficient and their retention is low, particularly in rural and remote areas.
Mohamed Ag Ahmed +4 more
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Do all roads lead to Sapporo? The role of linking and bridging ties in evacuation decisions
Why do some communities evacuate long-distances in higher rates than others after disaster? This mixed-methods study uses a new dataset of long-distance evacuation rates after Hokkaido’s Eastern Iburi Earthquake in September 2018, aggregated to the city ...
Timothy Fraser +2 more
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In this work, we conducted downward evacuation experiments in four types of staircases under various smoke visibility conditions of the naked eye, wearing sunglass and wearing eyeshades.
Qian Zhang +4 more
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Safety in residential buildings: Evacuation from residential buildings without fire escape stairs [PDF]
Introduction/purpose: Safety in high residential buildings presents a very important and always actual task. In case of some unforeseen and dangerous occurrences, their residents must be evacuated.
Radoje B. Jevtić
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The purpose of the presented in the article results is to increase the realism of the people evacuation modeling in case of emergency situation. Models that exist today do not describe in detail physical and psychological states of the characters during ...
Ekaterina Yurchenko +4 more
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A GIS-Based Evacuation Route Planning in Flood-Susceptible Area of Siraha Municipality, Nepal
Flood is one of the most frequently occurring and devastating disasters in Nepal. Several locations in Nepal are at high risk of flood, which requires proper guidance on early warning and safe evacuation of people to emergency locations through optimal ...
Gaurav Parajuli +4 more
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EvacuAI: An Analysis of Escape Routes in Indoor Environments with the Aid of Reinforcement Learning
There is only a very short reaction time for people to find the best way out of a building in a fire outbreak. Software applications can be used to assist the rapid evacuation of people from the building; however, this is an arduous task, which requires ...
Anna Carolina Rosa +5 more
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