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Modelling smoke dynamics and hazards of smouldering fire in complex large space building

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
Smouldering fires produce significant quantities of toxic smoke and gases that are responsible for severe casualties while rarely considered in building fire safety design.
Wai Kit Cheung, Tianhang Zhang, Xinyan Huang, Liming Jiang, Asif Sohail Usmani   +4 more
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Examination of Strenuous Activity Preceding Cardiac Death during Firefighting Duties

Safety, 2019
Sudden cardiac death accounts for approximately 45% of duty-related fatalities among United States firefighters. Strenuous physical exertion is recognized as a trigger of sudden cardiac events.
Jeannie M. Haller, Denise L. Smith
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safe evacuation framework with intelligent dynamic exit sign system and demonstration in tunnel fire

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
Emergency exit sign systems guide occupants to safety, but they may fail in fires when smoke blocks routes. This study introduces an Intelligent Dynamic Exit Sign (IDES) system, integrating a fire-detection sensor network with dynamic sign patterns ...
Ho Yin Wong, Meng Wang, Xiaoning Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Ming Chi Wong, Xinyan Huang   +5 more
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Multirobot Aerial Soft Manipulator for Floating Litter Collection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multirobot aerial manipulator enables autonomous floating litter collection by controlling the shape of a flexible rope equipped with a hook‐based tool. Adaptive rope‐shape planning enhances grasping performance while reducing tension, demonstrating the potential of aerial robots for floating litter removal. Removing floating litter from water bodies
Antonio González‐Morgado, Sander Smits, Guillermo Heredia, Anibal Ollero, Alexandre Krupa, François Chaumette, Fabien Spindler, Antonio Franchi, Chiara Gabellieri   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda, Margary Martin, Misty Pacheco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, combining these datasets seems a straight‐forward option. However,
Franziska J. Kößler, Candice Y. Johnson, Amel Omari, Kaori Fujishiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Muscle-Inspired Anisotropic Aramid Nanofibers Aerogel Exhibiting High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Conversion and Precise Temperature Monitoring for Firefighting Clothing [PDF]

Enhancing the firefighting protective clothing with exceptional thermal barrier and temperature sensing functions to ensure high fire safety for firefighters has long been anticipated, but it remains a major challenge.
Mia, Md Hasib, Xu, Jie, Huang, Lele, Hu, Xiaodong, Zhou, Mi, Zheng, Zhenrong, Wan, Yuhang, Yu, Zhicai, Jiang, Qing, He, Hualing, Huo, Siqi   +10 more
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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit, Erik Paredis, Josephina C. C. M. Huijben, Myriam M. A. H. Cloodt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizing for Emergencies - Issues in Wildfire Fighting in Croatia [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015
Croatia's accession to the European Union implies inevitable changes in the national emergency management system. New requirements for adjustment in accordance with the EU standards and practices also apply to the fire-services organization.
Robert Fabac, Davor Đalog, Vinko Zebić
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