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\"Hear the sirens! See the police car? Police cars help people in danger. Ambulances help people who are hurt. Whoosh! Look at them drive quickly to the hospital! Through delightfully simple text and bright, close-up photos, beginning readers will learn about rescue vehicles, types, and uses in this eBook. All Little Pebble books have an Accelerated Reader ATOS level of 1.0 or below. Download the Capstone 4D app to access a variety of bonus content.\"--Provided by publisher.
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AI to the rescue: how to enhance disaster early warnings with tech tools
Artificial intelligence can help to reduce the impacts of natural hazards, but robust international standards are needed to ensure best practice.
Artificial intelligence can help to reduce the impacts of natural hazards, but robust international standards are needed to ensure best practice.
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The Adventure Bay treasury
\"Follow the PAW Patrol on three awesome adventures around Adventure Bay. The tales in this treasury prove that no job is too big and no pup is too small!\"-- Back cover.
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Resilience enhancement of an urban road network during traffic accidents by optimally dispatching rescue teams
The efficient dispatch of rescue teams (RTs) during traffic accidents is crucial for the rapid restoration of normal operations in the affected urban road network (URN), thereby enhancing the network’s resilience during such events. However, previous studies focusing on optimizing RT dispatch strategies to enhance URN resilience remain limited. To address this gap, this paper develops a mixed-integer linear programming model aimed at optimizing RT dispatch during traffic accidents. The formulated model is solved using the commercial solver (i.e., CPLEX). Numerical experiments conducted on a hypothetical URN demonstrate that the model generates an optimal dispatch scheme. Compared to baseline strategies, the optimized scheme reduces the total objective function values by 27.36% in small-scale cases and 16.28% in large-scale case, respectively. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis reveal that accident severity and destination locations significantly influence the dispatch scheme design. Finally, the paper discusses the impact of several parameters on the model’s solution, showing that its performance is highly sensitive to several critical factors like RT dispatch costs, the maximum allowable delay time, passenger value of time, and vehicle travel speeds.
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Cats in the city
While admiring the view of the city from his friend Edith's apartment, Stick Cat notices that Hazel, the bagel maker, is in danger across the alley, and he devises a plan to rescue her.
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Research on the application of mobile phone location signal data in earthquake emergency work: A case study of Jiuzhaigou earthquake
After an earthquake, the important task of emergency rescue work is to minimize casualties, but due to the suddenness of earthquake disasters, it is difficult to obtain enough disaster information immediately, especially personnel distribution and movement information. The traditional methods of obtaining disaster data are through reports from the disaster area or field investigations by the emergency rescue team; this work lags, and its efficiency is low. This paper analyzes the feasibility of using mobile phone location signal data in earthquake emergency rescue work in several respects, such as quantity, location, change rate, and epicentral distance. The results show that mobile phone location signal data can quickly obtain the situation of personnel distribution and quantity after an earthquake, and we find the change rate, distance, etc., can determine the approximate range of the earthquake impact field. Through the data distribution in different time periods, the movement of personnel after the earthquake can be obtained. Based on several situations, we can determine the basic situation of the disaster-stricken areas in times after the earthquake, especially the personnel relevant to the situation, and these data can provide a scientific basis for emergency rescue decision making.
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Pawsome puppy adventures!
Ryder and his team of dogs describe their characteristics, abilities, favorite activities, and vehicles; rescue Mayor Goodway when her hot air balloon goes awry; and Skye rescues her hero, pilot Ace Sorenson, as the others ready a landing.
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Optimization control of all-terrain rescue lift vehicle safety performance based on state feedback
The all-terrain rescue lift vehicle is instrumental in mining emergency rescue operations, with its operational stability being of utmost importance. This study focuses on the XZJ5240JQZ30 all-terrain rescue lift vehicle, optimizing its vehicle structure and steering system. A linear 2DOF model and a PID gain model were developed based on actual vehicle parameters. A feedback system was employed to adjust the rear-wheel steering angle, enabling four-wheel steering (4WS) vehicle control. Numerical simulations were conducted using TruckSim and Simulink software. Utilizing the classic Double lane-change scenario as a test scenario, the study compared variations in the vehicle's centroid slip angle and yaw rate at different speeds, analyzing the impact of PID gain on steering stability. Moreover, the relationship between the centroid height and 4WS vehicle stability at low speeds was examined. Based on these findings, practical application tests were performed on the XZJ5240JQZ30 all-terrain rescue lift vehicle, obtaining relevant data on steering angle error. The results indicate that vehicles equipped with the PID-optimized control system demonstrate significantly higher steering stability than those without it. Furthermore, in practical applications, the actual steering angle closely aligns with the theoretical values. This demonstrates that the proposed optimized control system has substantial practical application value.
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Surf's up!
Clarence joins his neighbor, Mr. Dent, and his cat Throttle for a day of surfing at the beach, but when Throttle gets into trouble and cannot swim, it's up to Clarence to save the day.
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Lay rescuer intervention in fatal drownings in Canada, 2010–2019: a population-based cross-sectional analysis
IntroductionDespite evidence that immediate rescue and initiation of resuscitation plays a vital role in determining the outcome of a drowning person, research on lay rescuer interventions remains limited. We explored lay rescuer interventions in fatal drowning incidents in Canada and described the characteristics of lay rescuers who had a fatal outcome while attempting to rescue another person.MethodsWe reviewed all unintentional drowning deaths that occurred in Canada (2010–2019) identified by the Drowning Prevention Research Centre. We determined the adjusted OR of lay rescuer intervention for different drowning incident characteristics using multivariable logistic regression. Using descriptive statistics, we described incidents where a lay rescuer fatally drowned while attempting to perform a rescue.ResultsDuring the study period, 4535 people died as the result of unintentional drowning incidents in Canada. There was an attempted rescue in 2480 cases (54.7%) and most were by lay rescuers (n=1846, 74.4%). Lay rescuers frequently used a high-risk, contact rescue technique (n=895, 48.5%). Lay rescuers were more likely to respond when the drowning person was a child, was female, the drowning occurred in a pool, only one person was drowning and when there was no ice present in the body of water. 74 lay rescuers fatally drowned while attempting to save another person.ConclusionsLay rescuers frequently intervened on drowning incidents with a high-risk, contact rescue. Since characteristics differed between drowning incidents where a lay rescuer response occurred (vs not), further investigation into rescuer motivation may inform tailored interventions to reduce rescuer injury.
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