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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6176)Ever since the arrival of democracy, South Africa's universities have been going through a difficult transition. There is constant pressure to "decolonize" subjects, including maths and science, sometimes seen as Western...
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From:Journal of Fire Protection Engineering (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Assumptions made and results obtained when applying three fire modeling approaches to study three accidental fires that occurred in single-family dwellings are presented in this article. The modeling...
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From:Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Vol. 107, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOfficial release versions of NISTs computer programs for modeling and visualizing fire and smoke flow, Fire Dynamics Simulator 2.0 and Smokeview 2.0, are now available for download at http://fire.nist.gov/fds/. The NIST...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 6)IT'S 2 A.M., and a fire has broken out at Munger Hall at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The building's 4,500 undergraduate residents stream down its 11 stories through more than a dozen fire exits and...
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From:Design WeekDesign Show Liverpool has come under fire for inadequate organisation which led to a last-minute venue change. An irate exhibitor at last month's show is demanding her money back, claiming that she was 'misled and...
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From:Forensic Science International (Vol. 147, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper extends a previous discussion of the use of Bayesian networks for evaluating evidence in the forensic investigation of fire incidents. Bayesian networks are proposed for two casework examples and...
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From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 81, Issue 3)Law enforcement officers are challenged daily in the performance of their duties; they face each challenge freely and unselfishly while answering the call to duty. In certain instances, their actions warrant special...
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From:Matrix: The Magazine for Leaders in Higher Education (Vol. 1, Issue 4)From the Daily Californian, the student newspaper of the University of California-Berkeley, via U-WIRE www.uwire.com The tragic death of a UC Berkeley student and her parents in a fire this week highlights the acute...
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From:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLightning-caused fires account for approximately 45% of ignitions and 80% of area burned by forest fires in Canada. Investigating the seasonality of these fires and the extent to which it may be changing over time is of...
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From:Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Vol. 107, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis report, Simulation of the Dynamics of a Fire in a Two-Story Duplex--Iowa, Dec. 22, 1999 (NISTIR 6854), describes the re-creation of a fire in a two-story duplex house in Iowa which claimed the lives of three...
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From:Journal of Fire Protection Engineering (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations are carried out to select a better air intake system for a new fire laboratory, designed for experiments with a maximum fire heat release rate of 7 MW. Two...
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From:The Forensic Examiner (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhenever I am asked how I became an origin and cause fire investigator, instead of furrowing my brow over the difficulties of having started out with nothing but an idea and an empty bank account, I smile at the delight...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground Globally, and in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, extreme fires have become more common in recent years. Such fires pose societal and ecological threats and have inter alia been attributed to...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 39, Issue 8)UNITED KINGDOM 1 The British Library is embarking on a major project with its collection of medieval and Renaissance royal illuminated manuscripts, which will culminate in the first-ever exhibition of the collection...
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From:Forensic Science Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs a forensic science, fire investigation involves a wide variety of disciplines and thus attracts an equally wide variety of practitioners. These range from fire protection engineers who may only occasionally engage in...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground The red imported fire ant is one of the notorious species of ants all over the world. Sugar is one of the most important components of food and necessary for the survival of ants. Because more than 70% food...
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From:The Forensic Examiner (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen I investigated my first fire, two factors collided to make it one of the most intriguing cases I would encounter in my career as a fire investigator. The first factor was my incredible good luck in having married...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 56, Issue 14)Byline: Eric Hoover In dorms throughout the land, boredom + video cameras = hijinks. But what happens when you add fire to the equation? Ed Comeau went looking for answers on YouTube. He found that some college...
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From:University Business (Vol. 12, Issue 6)FIRE SCIENCE STUDENTS AT THE University of New Haven (Conn.) won't have to wait for actual fires in the area to progress in their studies. Instead they can examine the Fire Science and Arson Investigation Laboratory,...
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From:Forensic Science International (Vol. 147, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The forensic investigation of the origin and cause of a fire incident is a particularly demanding area of expertise. As the available evidence is often incomplete or vague, uncertainty is a key element. The...