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PRACTICAL TRAINING OF OFFICERS OF THE STATE FIRE SERVICE THROUGH GAME-BASED LEARNING

open access: yesОбразование 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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Interstitial Lung Disease in Firefighters: An Emerging Occupational Hazard

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
IntroductionOccupational risk factors for interstitial lung disease (ILD) are a remediable aspect of this progressive pulmonary disorder. The association between firefighting and ILD is unknown.
Cathryn T. Lee   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scalable Planning and Learning for Multiagent POMDPs: Extended Version [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Online, sample-based planning algorithms for POMDPs have shown great promise in scaling to problems with large state spaces, but they become intractable for large action and observation spaces.
Amato, Christopher, Oliehoek, Frans A.
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Firefighters under alert: psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia between firefighters and non-firefighters

open access: yesPSICOLOGIA, 2023
Firefighters have high exposure to traumatic events and have an increased risk of developing symptoms related to trauma. The current study assessed the psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia of volunteer firefighters compared to career firefighters and to non-firefighter comparators from the general population. Group differences were assessed
Rodrigues,Fabiana   +4 more
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Multi-objective Optimization of Firefighting Strategies in Process Plants

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2023
Ideal firefighting strategies at process plants would include simultaneous suppressing and cooling of all the burning and exposed units, respectively, if firefighting resources are sufficient.
Nima Khakzad
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Fit for Fire: A 10-Week Low-Cost HIFT Experiential Learning Initiative between Underrepresented Kinesiology Undergraduates and Hypertensive Deconditioned Firefighters Improves Their Health and Fitness

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2021
The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of an experiential learning initiative led by minority exercise science undergraduates and to observe the adaptations after a 10-week high-intensity functional training (HIFT) program in 34 ...
Melanie Poudevigne   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimization of CO2 production rate for firefighting robot applications using response surface methodology [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Firefighting on trees

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 2019
In the Firefighter problem, introduced by Hartnell in 1995, a fire spreads through a graph while a player chooses which vertices to protect in order to contain it. In this paper, we focus on the case of trees and we consider as well the Fractional Firefighter game where the amount of protection allocated to a vertex lies between 0 and 1.
Coupechoux, Pierre   +3 more
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Firefighter Observations of “Surprising” Fire Behavior in Mountain Pine Beetle-Attacked Lodgepole Pine Forests

open access: yesFire, 2019
The recent mountain pine beetle outbreak affecting lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains has created a novel fire environment for wildland firefighters.
Kevin Moriarty   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Profile of Injuries Sustained by Firefighters: A Critical Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Firefighters, along with other tactical personnel, are at a high risk of work-related physical injury above that of the private sector. The aim of this critical narrative review was to identify, critically appraise and synthesise key findings from recent
Canetti, Elisa   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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