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Annals of Anthropological Practice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists and public health professionals have long recognized the value of people‐centered, community‐based interventions. Securing community buy‐in is an essential precursor to any successful community‐based intervention. We describe the adaptation of pile sort methods to understand existing community relations, establish community buy‐
Jakob Hanschu +2 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With fewer young people entering public service, public employers and the corresponding trade unions aim at signaling that they offer attractive working conditions. However, in the struggle for attractive conditions, labor market conflicts occur between public employers and public sector unions when bargains fail. According to signaling theory,
Christian Heide, Florian Keppeler
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Habitat restoration is applied to promote ecological recovery in degraded freshwater systems. However, it remains unclear whether stream restoration measures enhance Water Framework Directive (WFD) ecological status and biodiversity.
Lisbeth Dalsgaard Romme Henriksen +3 more
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FireThis study analyzes the implementation of firefighting procedures and evacuation methods in a hospital environment, with a focus on ensuring rapid rescue operations and evacuation methods in a real fire in 2024.
Miroslav Betuš +4 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A recent raft of due diligence regulation (DDR) addressing social and environmental conditions in global value chains (GVCs) has spread across the UK and Europe. An emerging literature on DDR highlights the politics of its formation. Yet, we know little about how existing sustainability governance along GVCs interacts with DDR or the wider ...
Matthew Alford +4 more
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Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] Firefighting activities are traditionally the responsibility of states and local communities. As such, funding for firefighters is provided mostly by state and local governments.
Kruger, Lennard G
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Long‐duration spaceflight impacts essentially every system in the human body, resulting in multisystem deconditioning that might impair the health and performance of crewmembers, particularly on long‐duration exploration missions to Mars. In this review, we apply the sport science model of athlete monitoring, testing and training to astronauts;
Luke DeVirgiliis +8 more
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Comparison of sensory-neural hearing between firefighters and office workers
International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2013 Background: Rescuer systems personnel such as firefighters have importance in health assessment. Because of stressful situation, chemicals, metals, gases and noises, they need many physical and paraclinic examination such as audiometry in periodic ...
Seyedeh Negar Assadi +2 more
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Acute cardiovascular changes following heat exposure during simulated shipboard firefighting
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Like structural firefighting, shipboard firefighting requires extreme exertion. However, shipboard firefighting may be a unique cardiovascular stress as most sailors lack extensive firefighting experience and may complete significant work before reaching the fire scene.
Daniel K. Sweet +7 more
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Turkish Journal of Kinesiology, 2019 Prior research indicates firefighting to be a demanding and hazardous profession that places tremendous amounts of stress on the body, both physically and mentally.
McKayla Schmit, Mark DeBeliso
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