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Sound the Alarm: Limitations of Liability in Alarm Service Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Home and business owners increasingly rely on alarm systems to protect against theft and property damage. When a burglary or fire occurs and an alarm service customer discovers that the alarm company negligently failed to call the police or fire ...
Cohen, Joshua N.
core   +1 more source

Materials and System Design for Self‐Decision Bioelectronic Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights how self‐decision bioelectronic systems integrate sensing, computation, and therapy into autonomous, closed‐loop platforms that continuously monitor and treat diseases, marking a major step toward intelligent, self‐regulating healthcare technologies.
Qiankun Zeng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives

open access: yesEcology and Society
Fire has cultural and economic significance for Indigenous and rural peoples worldwide, being used to manage landscapes for activities such as hunting, gathering, cropping, and forestry, and for ceremonial and spiritual purposes.
Cathy Smith   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review article: Fire emissions in the Brazilian Cerrado – dynamics, estimates, management, and their role in the global carbon budget [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Estimating fire emissions in the Brazilian Cerrado requires integrating fire parameters, mitigation strategies, and policies. Despite the Cerrado's significant contribution to global fire emissions, research in this area is still overlooked when compared
R. M. da Veiga   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Michael Colliery in east Fife was the largest National Coal Board (NCB) unit in Scotland when it closed in 1967, following a disastrous fire which killed nine miners.
Phillips, Jim
core   +1 more source

Perspective on Aqueous Batteries: Historical Milestones and Modern Revival

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review retraces the development of aqueous batteries from classical Zn‐MnO2 chemistry to modern Zn and Ni systems, correlating voltage, capacity, and electrolyte formulation with practical performance. By mapping historical success and failure onto current and future research directions, it identifies guiding principles that steer the design of ...
Fangwang Ming   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

PERANCANGAN SARANA PENYELAMAT DIRI DAN KEBUTUHAN APAR PADA DARURAT KEBAKARAN DI KANTOR KESEHATAN PELABUHAN KELAS II BALIKPAPAN

open access: yesThe Indonesian Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2017
Fire in building could cause human casualties, loss of property, disruption of the activities of the organization, environmental degradation and disturbance of public.
Agus Pratama
doaj   +1 more source

Reconciling chemical flame retardant exposure and fire risk in domestic furniture.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionEvidence suggests that standards for resistance of furniture to ignition may lead to an increase in use of chemical flame retardants (CFRs).
Paul Whaley   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

End‐to‐End Sensing Systems for Breast Cancer: From Wearables for Early Detection to Lab‐Based Diagnosis Chips

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-induced fire regimes in the Russian biodiversity hotspots

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2018
Recent fire management policy in Russia assumes the complete exclusion of fires from the statutory reserves. We analyzed what the natural, climate-induced fire regimes for the historical years 1901–1998 in Russia, in the Russian biodiversity hotspots and
Chao Wu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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