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Violent computer games have role in fire safety
The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found.
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Cell phone signals help manage traffic
In a pilot project in Texas, Siemens is developing intelligent transportation technology for the fast and orderly evacuation of citizens. In this project, traffic light timing systems register traffic flow ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Airplane deployed to monitor air over NM fire
(AP) -- The government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory Wednesday as a 110-square-mile wildfire burned at its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Disaster-related apps can help you prepare for worst
While working as a programmer for Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif., two years ago, Terence Worley felt the ground rumble and shake beneath his feet. "I reached for my phone to see how close the quake was, ...
Mar 19, 2011 |
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CeBIT 2011: Preparing for the unexpected
How can you plan for an emergency the nature of which you don’t know? Several Fraunhofer institutes are working on strategies and technologies that would help to predict and improve the response to crises. ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Evacuating 70,000 sports fans in less than an hour?
What sports fan hasn't grumbled while waiting in a long, snaking lines to get into the stadium for the big game? It's enough to discourage even a diehard fan. But if you think it's a hassle getting into a ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Plastic surgeons should be part of disaster relief planning, response
When a terrorist bomb explodes, a tornado rips through a town, a hurricane devastates a region, or wildfires ravage homes and businesses, plastic surgeons are not typically atop the list of emergency responders.
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Stairwell evacuation study finds 'what we know we don't know'
Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings—especially in high-rise structures—only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse
The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards ...
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Innovations in Robotics and Automation: Focus IEEE & UC Berkeley
Current research in the field of robotics and automation is an area that holds great promise in man's ecological system. Professor Ken Goldberg, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University ...
Dec 14, 2007 |
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