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The health impacts of Indonesian peatland fires
Environmental Health, 2022 Background Indonesian peatlands have been drained for agricultural development for several decades. This development has made a major contribution to economic development. At the same time, peatland drainage is causing significant air pollution resulting
L. Hein +9 more
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Veli Brgud, cholera and other disasters during the 19th century
Zbornik Lovranšćine, 2021 The authorʼs systematic analysis of the registers of births, marriages, and deaths and the Status Animarum for Veli Brgud, as well as analysis of numerous other historical sources gathered a lot of data about life, epidemics, and many disasters that ...
Miljenko Ujčić
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Warming enabled upslope advance in western US forest fires
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Forest fires of the western United States have advanced upslope over the past few decades, scorching territories previously too wet to burn.
M. Alizadeh +5 more
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland Fires: Sensing, Perception, Cooperation and Assistance
, 2021 Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and frequency.
M. Akhloufi +2 more
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Flammability of polymeric materials used in construction
Magazine of Civil Engineering, 2021 This article is devoted to the results of fire risk studies of polymer construction materials (PCMs), in particular decorative and finishing materials.
Nataliya Konstantinova +3 more
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Forensic Investigation of Fires and Explosions
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law, 2021 In forensics, the investigation of intentional fires, generated by criminal violations of prevention rules, committed out of revenge, in order to hide other crimes, through vandalism, due to mental disorders or in the case of self ...
Ioan Aron
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Journal of Open Research Software, 2019 The Fire ROS Calculator is a software tool built using MATLAB to assist researchers from the wildfire research area in analysing wildland fire behaviours.
Abdelrahman Abouali +1 more
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Evaluation of the effects of fires and explosions in the transport of hazardous materials [PDF]
Archives of Transport, 2015 Transportation of liquid and gaseous fuels and chemicals, albeit not frequent, can lead to serious dangers for humans, the environment and property due to fires and explosions.
Marc J. Assael +2 more
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, 2010 . New burned area datasets and top-down constraints from atmospheric concentration measurements of pyrogenic gases have decreased the large uncertainty in fire emissions estimates. However, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the contribution
G. R. van der Werf +10 more
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GeoHealth, 2020 Air quality information is scarce in low‐ and middle‐income countries. This study describes the application of moderate cost approaches that can provide spatial and temporal information on concentrations of particulate matter (PM) needed to assess ...
Lawrencia Kwarteng +5 more
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