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Еnvironmental and Socio-Demographic Consequences of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident: A Historical Retrospective after 36 Years

open access: yesStudia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2023
The accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was one of the largest in human history. It is often referred to as a global event because its effects were felt not only by Ukrainians but also by the populations of Belarus, Russia, Central Europe, the ...
Tetiana Dmytrivna Chubina   +2 more
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What Is the Knowledge of Evacuation Procedures in Road Tunnels? Survey Results of Users in Poland

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
This paper presents a preliminary assessment of road tunnel safety issues among respondents—specifically, real and potential users of road tunnels. We recruited a group of respondents to study their knowledge of evacuation procedures and awareness of ...
Natalia Schmidt-Polończyk   +2 more
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Lessons from the evacuation of the World Trade Center, Sept 11th 2001 for the future development of computer simulations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in evacuation simulations. These interactive computer based tools have been developed to help the owners and designers of large public buildings to assess the risks that occupants might face during ...
Johnson, C.W.
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General Knowledge and Attitudes about Safety and Emergency Evacuation: The Case of a Higher Education Institution

open access: yesSafety, 2023
The implementation of a safety culture and awareness of emergency issues in buildings has been growing in more developed societies. It is essential that all occupants know how to act in an emergency situation, particularly during an emergency evacuation.
Carlos Carvalhais   +3 more
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Simulation of evacuation from the Terazije tunnel / Моделирование эвакуации из тоннеля «Теразие» / Simulacija evakuacije iz Terazijskog tunela [PDF]

open access: yesVojnotehnički Glasnik, 2019
Evacuation presents a very complex and difficult task that implies the safest, shortest and fastest convoying of people, animals and material resources from an endangered object or location to a secure location.
Radoje B. Jevtić
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Design of evacuation plans for densely urbanised city centres [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The high population density and tightly packed nature of some city centres make emergency planning for these urban spaces especially important, given the potential for human loss in case of disaster. Historic and recent events have made emergency service
Jesus, Eduardo Natividade   +2 more
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Simulation on fire emergency evacuation in special subway station based on Pathfinder

open access: yes, 2020
As a kind of large volume underground vehicles, the subway greatly relieves the traffic pressure of the city. However, the main defect is a closed space can easily lead to high casualty once there is a fire.
Jiawen Qin, Changcheng Liu, Que Huang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE "PERFECTED" EVACUATOR. [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 1889
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openaire   +1 more source

The risk of unfavorable outcomes in critically ill patients during interhospital transportation in Tyumen Region

open access: yesВестник анестезиологии и реаниматологии, 2019
The objective: assessment of the risk of unfavorable outcomes in critically ill patients based on the experience of interhospital transportation in Tyumen Region.Methods. The results of 338 patients’ transportation from hospitals of the Tyumen Region for
N. P. Shen, A. S. Minin
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Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2021
When World War II began in September 1939, upwards of one hundred thousand American citizens were residing and traveling throughout Europe. Over the next three months, nearly seventy-five thousand of these individuals would be returned to the United ...
Gavin Wilk
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