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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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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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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Flora i fauna rezerwatu przyrody Jezioro Kiełpińskie i sąsiednich starorzeczy w strefie podmiejskiej Warszawy by Jerzy Romanowski, Paweł Boniecki, Anita Kaliszewicz, Marek Kloss, Izabella Olejniczka

“…A large number of protected species of plants and vertebrates were recorded in the area, including amphibians, birds, and mammals that are of particular importance to the European community, such as the fire-bellied toad, little bittern, western marsh harrier, beaver, and otter. …”
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Installation Project for Water Purification from Suspended Particles by E.N. Neverov, A.K. Gorelkina, E.S. Mikhalova, P.S. Korotkih

“…The proposed water purification plant incurs significant operational costs. Fire hazards in closed systems and coal dust pollution are still issues, even with the plant’s adaptable design.…”
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Influence of Gas from Long-Flame Coal Spontaneous Combustion on Gas Explosion Limit by Haitao Wang, Yongli Liu, Qiyuan Shan

“…To investigate the impact of multiple combustible gases produced by long-flame coal spontaneous combustion on the gas explosion limit and to guide the reoperation of the coal mine goaf and fire area, the influence of gas generated by coal spontaneous combustion on gas explosion limit is investigated in this paper using a temperature-programmed device and a 20 L spherical explosion device. …”
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Evaluation of Emergency Assembly Areas with the AHP Method from the Perspective of Occupational Safety Experts by Onur Doğan

“…Occupational safety specialists are experts and have a high level of competence in combating all kinds of negative effects (earthquake, sabotage, accident, fire, etc.) that may affect the business ecosystem. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

“…In the last months of the Pacific War the center of the nearest big city, Matsuyama, had been reduced to a burnt-out wasteland by allied fire-bombing.2 The villages had been spared the worst of the air-raids, but during the final stages of the war their fishing boats had been requisitioned by the military or lain idle, unable to venture out into the dangerous waters of war. …”
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Identification and Characterization of Black Carbon Aerosol Sources in the East Baltic Region by Steigvilė Byčenkienė, Vidmantas Ulevicius, Vadimas Dudoitis, Julija Pauraitė

“…Temporal and spatial evolution and transport of biomass burning (BB) and volcanic aerosols observed within this period were explained by the air mass backward trajectory analysis in conjunction with the fire detection data produced by the MODIS Rapid Response System and AERONET database. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF MELTED EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE AS ΒITUMEN MODIFIER FOR PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION by AREMU TAJUDEEN ORIAJE, BAMIDELE IBUKUNOLU OLUGBEMI DAHUNSI, KAZEEM ADEKUNLE ADEYEMO

“…The products were tested for Marshall stability, specific gravity, penetration, softening point, ductility, loss on heating, viscosity, flash and fire points and the melting point tests using standard methods. …”
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Hydrothermal decomposition of industrial jarosite in alkaline media: The rate determining step of the process kinetics by González-Ibarra A.A., Nava-Alonso F., Fuentes-Aceituno J.C., Uribe-Salas A.

“…The industrial jarosite is mainly composed by natrojarosite and contains 150 g Ag/t, showing a narrow particle size distribution, as revealed by XRD, fire assay, SEM-EDS and laser-diffraction analysis. …”
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