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Yang Liu, Huajun Zhang, Yu Zhan, Kunxiang Deng and Liangzhi Dong
Cruise ships are large and complex, and it is difficult to manually make a plan to evacuate people to safe areas in a short time. Evacuation time and personnel safety are both important for emergency evacuation. This paper proposes an evacuation strategy...
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María Vanesa Moreno and Emilio Chuvieco
Concern regarding global change has increased the need to understand the relationship between fire regime characteristics and the environment. Pyrogeographical theory suggests that fire regimes are constrained by climate, vegetation and fire ignition pro...
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Andrew W. Whelan, Seth W. Bigelow, Mary Frances Nieminen and Steven B. Jack
Seasonal timing of prescribed fire and alterations to the structure and composition of fuels in savannas and woodlands can release understory hardwoods, potentially resulting in a global increase of closed-canopy forest and a loss of biodiversity. We hyp...
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Paula J. Fornwalt, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann and Byron J. Collins
The 2002 Hayman Fire burned with mixed-severity across a 400-ha dry conifer study site in Colorado, USA, where overstory tree and surface cover attributes had been recently measured on 20 0.1-ha permanent plots. We remeasured these plots repeatedly durin...
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Ali Asgary, Adriano O. Solis, Nawar Khan, Janithra Wimaladasa and Maryam Shafiei Sabet
Cities have experienced different realities during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its impacts and public health measures undertaken to respond to and manage the pandemic. These measures revealed significant implications for municipal functions, particularl...
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Jeremy Mattson
The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between land use, particularly density, and per capita spending levels in cities across the United States. A model was developed using data from the U.S. Census Bureau?s Annual Survey of Sta...
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JOHN FREDDY GRAJALES,ASTRID BAQUERO-BERNAL
For the first time, maps of surface concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are presented for the Colombian territory. NO2 surface concentrations for the year 2007 are inferred based on two sources of tropospheric NO2 column data: (1) a simulation using ...
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Xinli Zhao, Shanyang Wei, Yunyun Chu and Na Wang
In this paper, to reflect a real fire combustion situation of stilted buildings with a typical wooden structure, we used FDS numerical simulation software to study the suppression effect of a fine-water-mist fire-extinguishing system under different work...
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Sparkle L. Malone, Paula J. Fornwalt, Mike A. Battaglia, Marin E. Chambers, Jose M. Iniguez and Carolyn H. Sieg
We examined spatial patterns of post-fire regenerating conifers in a Colorado, USA, dry conifer forest 11?12 years following the reintroduction of mixed-severity fire. We mapped and measured all post-fire regenerating conifers, as well as all other post-...
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Filipa Torres-Manso,Paulo Fernandes,Rui Pinto,Hermínio Botelho,Aurora Monzon
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Aim of study:Wildfire incidence in Portugal is high in comparison with other Mediterranean Europe countries. Wildfire problems have been worsened by complex interactions between land use, livestock grazing and human population during the 20th century. In...
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Hongbo Shi, Xikun Wang, Qingjiang Xiang, Gonghe Zhang and Lin Xue
In the marine fire suppression system, continuous delivery of dry chemical powder to the fire source with long powder discharge range and high dispersion concentration is essential. The work is devoted to experimental and numerical studies of the flow ch...
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Yoojin Kang, Eunna Jang, Jungho Im, Chungeun Kwon and Sungyong Kim
Forest fires can cause enormous damage, such as deforestation and environmental pollution, even with a single occurrence. It takes a lot of effort and long time to restore areas damaged by wildfires. Therefore, it is crucial to know the forest fire risk ...
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J. Madrigal Olmo,J.A. Ruiz,R. Planelles,C. Hernando
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Aim of study. The present study is the first attempt to characterize and map wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) in eastern Spain (province of Valencia) and its relationship with wildfire occurrence. Area of study. The study area is located in eastern Spain...
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L. Calvo,O. Torres,L. Valbuena,E. Luis-Calabuig
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Aim of study: The main aim of this study was to analyse the post-fire recruitment and growth of Pinus pinaster seedlings during the first five years after wildfire and also to analyse the effects of climatic conditions on the survival of P. pinaster seed...
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Yuriy Tsapko,Denys Zavialov,Olga Bondarenko,Nataliia Marchenco,Serhiy Mazurchuk,Oleksandra Horbachova
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The studies allowed manufacturing dead pine wood thermal insulation materials for the arrangement of premises. Raw materials for their production are wood fibers formed as flat boards. The mechanisms of the thermal insulation process during energy transf...
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Kim Ducherer,Yuguang Bai,Don Thompson,Klaas Broersma
The ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, are facing problems such as forest in-growth mainly due to fire suppression, reducing grazing land area. This study focused on the use of thinning to reduce forest st...
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Mehdi Nikoo, Ghazanfarah Hafeez and Paulo Cachim
The article investigates the temperature prediction in rectangular timber cross-sections exposed to fire. Timber density, exposure time, and the point coordinates within the cross-section are treated as inputs to determine the temperatures. A total of 54...
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Mirela Cojocariu, Elena Liliana Chelariu and Ciprian Chiruta
The negative effects of urbanization such as urban overheating, pollution, high population density and so on are being experienced by city inhabitants more than ever, thus motivating a high number of researchers to find viable solutions to mitigate these...
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Joao Mesquitela, Luis B. Elvas, Joao C Ferreira and Luis Nunes
Traffic accidents in urban areas lead to reduced quality of life and added pressure in the cities? infra-structures. In the context of smart city data is becoming available that allows a deeper analysis of the phenomenon. We propose a data fusion process...
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Tomasz Walczykiewicz and Magdalena Skonieczna
Flooding risk in urban areas is particularly high, due to the high population density and property values, including those of transport, residential, service and industrial infrastructure, among others. There are many reasons for flooding in urban areas;...
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