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Applied Sciences, 2023 High-rise teaching buildings are complex public buildings that combine the evacuation risks of school buildings and high-rise buildings. In this regard, studying fire product transport patterns and personnel evacuation characteristics of high-rise school
Yan Cui +4 more
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The impact of fire suppression tasks on firefighter hydration: A critical review with consideration of the utility of reported hydration measures [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Firefighting is a highly stressful occupation with unique physical challenges, apparel and environments that increase the potential for dehydration.
Orr, Robin Marc +2 more
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Questionnaire Survey of the Skills of Water Tender Drivers at the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic [PDF]
, 2019 The paper summarizes results of the study aimed to evaluate the change of firefightersengineers’ driving skills after attending the one-day training course. The research focused at drivers of firefighting water tenders. These trucks represent the first-
Jánošík, Ladislav +3 more
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Respiratory symptoms in firefighters [PDF]
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2011 AbstractBackgroundThe aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with respiratory symptoms in common firefighters in the Netherlands.MethodsA total of 1,330 firefighters from the municipal fire brigades of three provinces of the Netherlands were included in the study.
Greven, F. +3 more
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 Many real-world applications have been suggested in the swarm robotics literature. However, there is a general lack of understanding of what needs to be done for robot swarms to be useful and trusted by users in reality.
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata +19 more
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Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2014 Objective: This article reports new anthropometric information of U.S. firefighters for fire apparatus design applications (Study 1) and presents a data method to assist in firefighter anthropometric data usage for research-to-practice propositions (Study 2). Background: Up-to-date anthropometric information of the U.S. firefighter population is needed
Hongwei, Hsiao +5 more
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Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives [PDF]
, 2016 Urbanization and changes in modern infrastructure have introduced new challenges to current firefighting practices. The current manual operations and training including fire investigation, hazardous chemicals detection, fire and rescue are insufficient ...
Cang, Shuang +3 more
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PRACTICAL TRAINING OF OFFICERS OF THE STATE FIRE SERVICE THROUGH GAME-BASED LEARNING
Образование и наука, 2019 Introduction. It is common knowledge that lives and health of people as well as safe operation of various infrastructures depend on the high level of professionalism of the staff responsible for safety.
V. V. Bulgakov +3 more
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, 2021 This entry has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project “LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay”. LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation.
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Optimization of CO2 production rate for firefighting robot applications using response surface methodology [PDF]
, 2018 A carbon dioxide gas-powered pneumatic actuation has been proposed as a suitable power source for an autonomous firefighting robot (CAFFR), which is designed to operate in an indoor fire environment in our earlier study.
Ajala, MT +5 more
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