A New Microstructure Development Model for the Evaluation of Concrete Setting Time by Ho-Jin Cho, Joo-Won Kang, Yong Han Ahn, Sunkook Kim, Xiao-Yong Wang

“…Concrete is an exceptionally attractive construction material, with stable material supply, adequate fire resistance, and high durability. Its plasticity can be both an advantage and a disadvantage from an engineering point of view, providing versatile shapes via casting and hardening but also requiring a relatively long period of time to reach its design strength. …”
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Gamma Oscillations Facilitate Effective Learning in Excitatory-Inhibitory Balanced Neural Circuits by Kwan Tung Li, Junhao Liang, Changsong Zhou

“…We study an excitatory-inhibitory (E-I) integrate-and-fire neuronal network with triplet STDP, heterosynaptic plasticity, and a transmitter-induced plasticity. …”
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Identifying Critical Success Factors of Humanitarian Aid Logistics in Disaster Management by Makber Tekin, Fahriye Merdivenci

“…After recent major crises (fire, earthquake, epidemic, etc.), the importance of humanitarian aid logistics has been better understood. …”
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Thermal Environment inside a Tunnel after Thermobaric Explosion by Fei Chen, Jinfeng Mao, Jin Zhou, Pumin Hou, Liyao Liu, Shangyuan Chen

“…The decay rate of air temperature inside a tunnel is slower in the blocked case, which increases the probability of causing a secondary fire disaster. The increase of explosive mass and the initial ground temperature favor the high-temperature performance of TBX, especially for the blocked tunnel.…”
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Research and development of integrated life cycle risk management and control platform for large petroleum storage depot by Xiping ZHU

“…Besides, an emergency rescue route optimization model for petroleum storage depots was built by improving the Dijkstra algorithm, and a fire analysis algorithm and an emergency drone platform were developed. …”
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Features of restoring the mental health of law enforcement officers who participated in the operation of the United Forces by O. S. Kolesnichenko

“…Participation involves the employees of the units (all of them), who had suffered psychological traumatic events: death, injury, injurious effect of a person; stay in isolation (in captivity, hostage, surrounded); work with the remnants of human bodies; prolonged stay in the conditions of the operation of the United Forces, staying under the fire of the enemy, the use of weapons to defeat the enemy. …”
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Networked Air Defense Radar Resource Management Under Power and Tracking Constraints by O. Tuncer, Hakan Ali Cirpan

“…This paper proposes a networked radar resource optimization methodology for fire control radars with limited tracking capacity and tries to minimize the transmit power of the networked radars while keeping the tracking quality needed for air defense engagement operations. …”
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Some Problems of Legal Regulation of Employer’s Labor Legal Personality as a Party to Contract by S. V. Vereitin

“…Employer powers of legal entities are vested in officials (chiefs, directors, presidents, etc.) who are given the right to hire and fire employees. Separate divisions of legal entities may be employers, if the relevant legal entity delegates part of its authority to them in order to accept the dismissal of employees and the use of their labor. …”
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Integrator or coincidence detector --- what shapes the relation of stimulus synchrony and the operational mode of a neuron? by Achilleas Koutsou, Jacob Kanev, Maria Economidou, Chris Christodoulou

“…., whether a neuron is an integrator or a coincidence detector) is in part determined by the degree of synchrony in the firing of its pre-synaptic neural population. More specifically, it is determined by the degree of synchrony that causes the neuron to fire. …”
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SqueezeMaskNet: Real-Time Mask-Wearing Recognition for Edge Devices by Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Lidia Prudente-Tixteco, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Hiroki Takahashi

“…SqueezeMaskNet integrates seamlessly with existing face detection systems, removing the need for retraining. We propose using Fire modules for efficiency, along with attention mechanisms like efficient channel attention (ECA) and squeeze-and-excitation (SE) blocks for improved feature refinement. …”
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Visual associations of celestial elements and animals in Zolāli Khānsāri’s poetry by Somayyeh mazharisefat, Mahindokht Farrukhnia, Behjat-sadat Hejazi

“…The visual associations of animals are the reflection of wisdom, the description of beauty, talking about wine and its derivatives, desire for fire, display of malice and deceit, the representation of misery, representation of eloquence, the description of power, and color. …”
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Postfire Residual Strength and Morphology of Concrete Incorporating Natural Rubber Latex Exposed to Elevated Temperatures by Paul O. Awoyera, Hadee Mohammed Najm, Olusegun David Adefarati, Moutaz Mustafa A. Eldirderi, Khaled Mohamed Khedher, Husam Al Dughaishi, Jawad Al Lawati, Abdalrhman Milad

“…Hence, measures to improve the performance of concrete during exposure to fire are continually proposed. The present study investigated the postfire residual strength and morphology of concrete incorporating natural rubber latex exposed to elevated temperature. …”
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Thermal Behavior of Cylindrical Buckling Restrained Braces at Elevated Temperatures by Elnaz Talebi, Mahmood Md. Tahir, Farshad Zahmatkesh, Airil Yasreen, Jahangir Mirza

“…However, its performance in case of fire has yet to be explored. This study showed that the failure of brace may be attributed to material strength reduction and high compressive forces, both due to temperature rise. …”
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Low-carbon ammonia-based fuel for maritime transport by A.A. Levikhin, A.A. Boryaev

“…Requirements for storage tanks for liquid ammonia and its fire-explosive and toxic properties are also given. …”
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Modeling and Solving Multi-Objective Path Planning Problem for Cooperative Cable-Suspended Load Transportation Considering the Time Variable Risk by Amir Arslan Haghrah, Sehraneh Ghaemi, Mohammad Ali Badamchizadeh

“…To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed model and algorithm, three case studies inspired by a fire incident in a forest park have been conducted, and the results have been compared with those of seven other well-known algorithms.…”
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Secondary School Students’ Disaster Preparedness Perception: A Mixed Method Approach by Fatma Tutuş, Merve Özer, Ayşenur Kuloğlu

“…They also mentioned preparing disaster kits as a precaution after disasters, receiving fire and earthquake-related training at their schools, but feeling that these trainings did not contribute significantly to their preparedness. …”
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Design Study for a Quasisynchronous CDMA Sensor Data Collection System: An LEO Satellite Uplink Access Technique Based on GPS by Yijun Chen, Sheng Ding, Zhouchen Xie, Zhuangping Qi, Xuwen Liang

“…With the development of the LEO satellite communication technology, highly dependable wireless communication and sensor data collection using LEO satellites have been getting much attention for emergency, marine research, and forest fire disaster in the remote region. The satellite system is expected to have the following features: rapid production, low cost, and fast construction of the satellite network. …”
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Thermoelectric porous laser-induced graphene-based strain-temperature decoupling and self-powered sensing by Li Yang, Xue Chen, Ankan Dutta, Hui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Mingyang Xin, Shuaijie Du, Guizhi Xu, Huanyu Cheng

“…Combined with the stretchability of 45%, the self-powered sensor platform allows for early fire detection in remote settings and accurate and decoupled monitoring of temperature and strain during the wound healing process in situ. …”
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Mapping Iterative Medical Imaging Algorithm on Cell Accelerator by Meilian Xu, Parimala Thulasiraman

“…We compare the performance of our proposed algorithm on Cell BE to that of Sun Fire ×4600, a shared memory machine. The Cell BE is five times faster than AMD Opteron dual-core processor. …”
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Increasing the combat readiness and fighting capacity of police officers to act in extreme situations by I. V. Vlasenko, T. V. T. V. Shevchenko

“…Training of police officers is limited to physical, psychological and fire training in static (comfortable) conditions. …”
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