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Fire Load, Fire Severity, and Fire Endurance

1970
A review is presented of fire studies beginning with the work of Ingberg at the National Bureau of Standards, who attempted to relate the severity of a fire endurance test in the laboratory to the conditions existing during actual building fires. He showed the importance of weight of combustibles per unit floor area as a major factor. He recognized the
A F Robertson, D Gross
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Severe fire weather and intensive forest management increase fire severity in a multi‐ownership landscape

Ecological Applications, 2018
AbstractMany studies have examined how fuels, topography, climate, and fire weather influence fire severity. Less is known about how different forest management practices influence fire severity in multi‐owner landscapes, despite costly and controversial suppression of wildfires that do not acknowledge ownership boundaries. In 2013, the Douglas Complex
Harold S J, Zald, Christopher J, Dunn
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Simultaneous Studies of Firing Patterns in Several Neurons

Science, 1964
A tungsten microelectrode with several small holes burnt in the vinyl insulation enables the action potentials from several adjacent neurons to be observed simultaneously. A digital computer is used to separate the contributions of each neuron by examining and classifying the waveforms of the action potentials. These methods allow studies to be made of
G L, Gerstein, W A, Clark
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Severe laboratory fire test for fire fighting foams

Fire Technology, 1980
A small-scale laboratory fire test has been developed to replace costly and air-polluting large-scale field fire tests that are used to evaluate reliability of fire fighting foam formulations.
Peter J. Chiesa, Raymond S. Alger
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The Firing of CEOS and Severance Pay

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Stockholders and regulators question whether severance packages are beneficial to stockholders. We study an agency setting where, in period 2, the shareholder can either retain the manager or fire him if a suitable alternative candidate exists. The manager’s effort in period 1 not only determines his productive output but also the probability that a ...
Kareen Brown, Parunchana Pacharn, Evelyn Patterson   +2 more
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Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2009
Several recent papers have suggested replacing the terminology of fire intensity and fire severity. Part of the problem with fire intensity is that it is sometimes used incorrectly to describe fire effects, when in fact it is justifiably restricted to measures of energy output.
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On Fire Severity of Flammable Gas

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014
Flammable gases’s fire need more attention in spontaneous combustion study of coalmine. Their premixed combustion is modeled to deduce the corresponding temperature-time function. Basing on this function curve and Simon Ingberg’s early reports, their fire severity classification theory is established, including definition and equation of their fire ...
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SEVERE OUTBREAK OF FIRE BLIGHT ON QUINCE IN TURKEY

Acta Horticulturae, 2006
In the late spring and summer of 2003, severe fire blight symptoms were observed on quince trees (Cydonia vulgaris cultivars Esme and Ekmek) in different orchards in Turkey. The disease had spread to all quince-growing areas located in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara, and Middle Anatolia regions (Adana, Nigde, Konya, Antalya, Isparta, Afyon, Izmir ...
Saygili, H., Sahin, F., Mirik, M., Aysan, Y.   +3 more
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Determinants of riparian fire severity in two Oregon fires, USA

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2008
We sought to understand how vegetation indicators and local topographic factors interact to influence riparian fire severity in two recent fires in Oregon, USA. A stratified random sampling design was used to select points in a range of fire severity classes, forest stand ages, and stream sizes in each fire.
Jessica E. Halofsky, David E. Hibbs
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Firing tax vs severance payments – an unequal comparison [PDF]

Journal of Economic Studies, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to compare two elements of lay-off costs in a dynamic model of the labor market and analyze the differences for business cycle dynamics and welfare.Design/methodology/approach– The paper builds a general equilibrium Real Business Cycle model and introduces firing costs and severance payments. Labor market frictions
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