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Applied SciencesThe self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is an integral part of the structural firefighting personal protective equipment (PPE) ensemble. However, when donned, it adds significant weight and restriction, interfering with the fit of the turnout suit ...
Josephine Bolaji, Meredith McQuerry
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Anaesthesia, EarlyView.Summary Introduction Admission to the ICU involves experiential burdens and a risk of a negative dying experience if patients do not survive their critical illness. Many patients who are critically unwell, or their surrogate decision‐makers, must decide about accepting ICU treatment without knowing what it is like.
Thomas Donaldson +3 more
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Should Moral Repair Be Offered to Morally Injured Laboratory Animal Technicians?
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lab‐technicians are at risk of sustaining moral injuries when complicit in unethical experiments. Prima facie, it would be puzzling to offer the perpetrator of an unethical experiment psychological support in the form of moral repair. However, we argue that lab technicians are owed moral repair as a special case of our proposed duty of special
John Goris, Jane Johnson
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‘We Are the Eyes on the Streets’—Modes of Proactive Youth Outreach
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an increasing emphasis on the need for more prevention initiatives targeting the rise of mental health issues, addiction and crime in the youth population across Europe. Youth outreach work has a long‐standing tradition of working with marginalized youth; however, youth culture is dynamic, and there has been limited research in the ...
Ingunn Skjesol +3 more
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Single Line Drawing Generation via Semantics‐Driven Optimization
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.We present a method for automatically generating single‐line drawings in vector format, guided by a text prompt or an input image. Our approach leverages score distillation sampling to optimize the parameters of a uniform rational B‐spline (URBS) curve, ensuring that the drawing consists of a single continuous stroke by design.
Tanguy Magne +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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The winner doesn't need to take it all: Unravelling the gendered value of work time
International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract How people understand, negotiate and use time at work shapes their daily experiences. Yet, when work time is divided, allocated and valued in workplaces, women often lose out. Despite pervasive empirical evidence of gender gaps, research has largely overlooked the deeper role of time in shaping inequality.
Marijana Baric +3 more
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Character and creditworthiness: Unveiling the role of job titles in peer‐to‐peer lending
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract Using data from the Prosper lending platform, we examine the influence of job‐based trust on credit market dynamics. We find that the generalized trust implied by borrowers' job titles, as a reflection of individuals' ethical and integrity standards in professionals, positively affects listing and loan performance.
Zagdbazar Davaadorj +2 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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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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