This report presents a quantified model as a guide for the Incident Commander to determine the most suitable fire-fighting tactics in advance for given conditions at specific objects. The model is applied to two chemical warehouses. The model proves that it is possible to introduce risk management procedures and fire safety engineering models into fire-fighting tactics. If the model and its differ

This textbook aims to provide a comprehensible introduction to Engineering Hydrology for environmental engineering students. The book comprises of 8 chapters which provide a holistic view of hydrology, seen as the water transport in nature with human influence, and deal with the main hydrological systems and processes. Each chapter ends with a few engineering examples together with a discussion of

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Ämnet för artikeln är frågan hur vi kan skaffa oss kunskap om de regler eller normer som ligger bakom ett visst handlingsmönster. Frågan aktualiserades under våren 1998, då Håkan Hydén presenterade en normteoretisk modell för rättssociologerna vid Lunds universitet. Modellen är avsedd som ett analysredskap av normens strukturella, motivationella och kognitionella element. Analysen kan ta sin utgån

This book chapter discusses queer theory in relation to cultural studies as a reserch field and argues for a more including research.

In the last years, many vehicle manufacturers have introduced advancedriver support in some of their automobiles. One of those new featuresis Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which extends the conventionalcruise control system to control of relative speed and distance toother vehicles. In order to design an ACC controller it is suitable tohave a model on drivers' behavior. Our approach to find dynam

This paper compares the fuzzy controllers trained with three different data-based methodologies for the control of the active knee joint of a powered transfemoral prosthesis. For each methodology a different inference system structure and number of generated rules was produced. The control is optimized using adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy optimization techniques and it is aimed to work at different speeds w

This paper presents a generic system dynamic model to simulate and analyze a desertification system and its stability for different desertification syndromes. The study is one of many desertification related modelling approaches carried out by different project partners within the frames of DeSurvey (A Surveillance System for Assessing, Monitoring and Modelling Desertification; 2005-2010). DeSur

The performance of truck drivers is crucial to the sustainability, in particular profitability, of motor carrier operations. Despite this, driver efficiency has received scarce attention in the transport and logistics literature. While the literature has focused on mathematical optimization, generic logistics frameworks and conceptual technology applications, measurement of drivers’ efficiency has

Collection of articles published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience on such topics as hypnosis, meditation, psi, psychedelics.