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Results and Conclusions of the Project "Complex Model for Risk Assessment and Treatment in Industrial Processes" (Mopori)

Communications, 2015
This article deals with selected results and conclusions which were achieved in the project APVV 0043-10 MOPORI during more than three years of its solution.
Katarina Holla, Maria Simonova, Jan Kandrac, Stanislav Maly, Andrew Collins   +4 more
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Multiple-Scale Relationships between Vegetation, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Structure Loss to Wildfire in California

Fire, 2021
Recent increases in destructive wildfires are driving a need for empirical research documenting factors that contribute to structure loss. Existing studies show that fire risk is complex and varies geographically, and the role of vegetation has been ...
Alexandra D. Syphard, Heather Rustigian-Romsos, Jon E. Keeley   +2 more
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Forest Fire Risk Analysis

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2005
ABSTRACT Southern Europe suffers from forest fires. The management of these disasters is of importance to both government authorities and the public. This article presents the results of a research project aimed at modeling forest fire events and producing fire risk maps.
Bonazountas, M., Kallidromitou, D., Kassomenos, P. A., Passas, N.   +3 more
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Increasing intensity and frequency of cold fronts contributed to Australia’s 2019–2020 Black Summer fire disaster

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Human-caused climate changes are increasing the risk of dangerous wildfires in many regions of the world. There are multiple, compounding aspects of climate change that are increasing fire risk, including large-scale climate changes driving hotter and ...
Dejun Cai, Nerilie J Abram, Jason J Sharples, Sarah E Perkins-Kirkpatrick   +3 more
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Forest Fuel Loads Estimation from Landsat ETM+ and ALOS PALSAR Data

Remote Sensing, 2021
Fuel load is the key factor driving fire ignition, spread and intensity. The current literature reports the light detection and ranging (LiDAR), optical and airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for fuel load estimation, but the optical and SAR ...
Yanxi Li, Xingwen Quan, Zhanmang Liao, Binbin He   +3 more
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Mind the Gender Gap

Nordic Journal of STEM Education
Gender inequality in the academic context is influenced by implicit bias – namely the process of automatic associations. Implicit gender biases might influence teaching, assessment, review, and recruitment processes and hence equality within higher ...
J. Lindström Månefjord, J. Åström, J. Allansson   +2 more
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Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Deforestation exacerbates climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, but other climatic alterations linked to the local biophysical changes from deforestation remain poorly understood.
Ralph Trancoso, Jozef Syktus, Alvaro Salazar, Marcus Thatcher, Nathan Toombs, Kenneth Koon-Ho Wong, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, Clive A McAlpine   +8 more
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Fire Risk of Polyethylene (PE)-Based Foam Blocks Used as Interior Building Materials and Fire Suppression through a Simple Surface Coating: Analysis of Vulnerability, Propagation, and Flame Retardancy

Fire, 2023
Building fires can spread through surface combustion of both combustible and interior finishing materials. Recently, the use of foam blocks as interior materials for high-rise residential buildings has increased.
Yongtae Jeon, Jungwoo Park, Jongyoung Park, Chankyu Kang   +3 more
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Fire Risk in MTBF Evaluation for UPS System

Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2016
The reliability improvement of no-break redundant electrical systems is the first aim of the proposed strategy. The failure of some UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system may lead to the fire occurrence.
Stefano Elia, Alessio Santantonio
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A Statistical Forecasting Model for Extremes of the Fire Behaviour Index in Australia

Atmosphere
The increasing frequency and duration of severe fire events in Australia further necessitate accurate and timely forecasting to mitigate their consequences.
Rachel Taylor, Andrew G. Marshall, Steven Crimp, Geoffrey J. Cary, Sarah Harris   +4 more
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