Sentences with phrase «fire researchers at»

Mike Flannigan, a fire researcher at the University of Alberta, said that previous studies have tried to understand the effects of climate on fires in parts of Canada, but that nothing had been done for the United States on this scale.

«While it is unlikely that this season will be record - breaking for modern fire record keeping in the western United States, it is above normal relative to the last decade — which has seen abundant fire activity,» said John Abatzoglou, a fire researcher at the University of Idaho.

Not exact matches

It's the researchers at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency putting out a fire with sound.

But the cases of Rebecca Warburton, who was a co-director of research at the ministry before she was fired, and her husband researcher Bill Warburton are ongoing.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

At the International Tribunal on Workers» Human Rights, held at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 in 199At the International Tribunal on Workers» Human Rights, held at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 in 199at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 in 1993.

Torero, who now teaches at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, first «got interested in fire after he left [his native] Peru to study engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met researchers working on fire safety problems for the International Space Station,» Wade wrote.

And when the researchers incorporated those relationships into the model, he says, the runs most consistent with the actual fire involved almost no panic at all.

First identified by collaborating researchers at Duke University nearly a decade ago, it was developed to replace PBDEs, a class of fire retardants being phased out of use because of safety concerns.

Vogl said the researchers, who began their collaboration when Rangel was a visiting professor at Princeton, are working to apply the same technique to examining agricultural fires in Africa.

Tasked to check the finding, MiniBooNE researchers fired a beam of normal matter muon neutrinos at a 12 - meter - wide spherical tank of mineral oil 500 meters away.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

Back in Switzerland, he continued his magnificent obsession as a researcher at ETH Zürich, a highly regarded technical university, where he helped another information - technology giant, SAP, create a system that allows assembly - line machines to talk to each other about hiccups and slowdowns and fire off e-mail warnings of production delays.

In contrast, the new method used on mice causes certain nerve cells to fire at a specific rhythm, generating brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.

From the bomb - induced firestorm in Hamburg, Germany during World War II to the most recent wildfires in the American West and elsewhere, Fox takes a detailed look at the dynamics of catastrophic fires (two fires 10 miles apart can travel in opposite directions) and explains why new insights on plume behavior may help researchers see beyond the chaotic veneer of a wildfire to discern underlying, more predictable forces that guide its behavior.

The thousands of skeletons originally interred from the mid-16th through 18th centuries at the Bedlam burial ground are expected to provide researchers with unparalleled information about a formative time for London that included the English Civil Wars, Restoration, the last major plague outbreak and The Great London Fire of 1666.

At the site, researchers have found evidence of human - controlled fires in million - year - old layers of earth.

At times, researchers had to invent new modeling capabilities to get the simulations to work, such as mapping of fire - generated environmental temperatures onto the structural components of the buildings.

For years, researchers have regarded the ability to watch an organism's neurons fire — at high resolution, as the animal behaves naturally — as the pinnacle of brain observation.

The researchers then trained a laser at the right foot of each volunteer and fired tiny pulses.

By watching videos of caterpillars at 300 frames per second (above), researchers identified how the tiny insects» uncoupled muscles fire it into a somersault to escape an annoying poke.

«When you have a lot of fires burning under these extreme conditions, there's very little that can be done to control them,» says Andrew Sullivan, a bushfire researcher at CSIRO.

For instance, researchers often use so - called «gene guns» to fire particles coated with strands of DNA known as plasmids at large populations of cells.

At laboratories throughout the United States — some large enough to contain a three - story house — researchers have been lighting rooms and houses on fire and analyzing the results with the kind of scientific scrutiny that has upended several deeply entrenched misconceptions about how fires behave.

Firing up the lasers When researchers attempt ignition, a bank of capacitors charges up and triggers a flash of light at the master oscillator that generates 192 laser beams.

At the same time, the researchers monitored nerve firing in a part of the cortex — the ventral intraparietal area — that serves as an interface between the brain's visual and motor processing regions.

Researchers now know that the deepest charring sometimes occurs not at the fire's origin or the location of the most fuel but at the source of ventilation — the target of that jet.

The researchers» discovery revealed that at the forest fire site, the plants are dominated by flora quite similar to the kind that begin forest recovery after a fire today.

In the early 2000s, when Tsao was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, she and electrophysiologist Winrich Freiwald showed that neurons in a monkey's face patches would fire electrical signals every time the animal saw pictures of a face.

However, because the treatments affected the cultures globally and did not precisely target synapses, the researchers next applied substances that increase the firing of glutamate neurons by acting solely at synaptic sites.

In addition, the drought - fire relationship is stronger in northern regions,» says Marco Turco, researcher at the Meteorological Hazard Analysis Group (GAMA) of UB, led by Professor M. del Carme Llasat.

The United Kingdom has a painful history of animal rights extremism that has included break - ins at laboratories, fire bombs, and the violent intimidation of researchers, animal breeders, building contractors working on laboratories, and companies that transport animals.

Mark Finney, who is a researcher at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Mont., has been studying flame dynamics at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory to uncover the mechanism by which wildfires spread.

But, recently, some researchers have carried out the double slit experiment using electrons, fired one at at a time, to build up an interference pattern.

At a facility in Miyagi, Suzuki and JAXA researchers are testing an 800 - watt optical - fiber laser that fires at a receiving station 500 meters awaAt a facility in Miyagi, Suzuki and JAXA researchers are testing an 800 - watt optical - fiber laser that fires at a receiving station 500 meters awaat a receiving station 500 meters away.

Developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the device designed to burn off oil spills more completely.

The researchers were able to identify place cells that fired at different spots all along the way.

Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of air pollutants.

When the researchers looked at activity at the cellular level in the rats» brains, they saw that individual cells stimulated by the optogenetics would increase firing rates in the PER network and that many cells fired in sync with the optical flicker frequency.

In fact, a typical coal - fired power plant exposes local residents to as many as 18 millirems of radiation yearly, whereas a nuclear power plant emits less than six millirems per annum, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed for the first time a lithium - ion battery that uses a water - salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark desired for household electronics, such as laptop computers, without the fire and explosive risks associated with some commercially available non-aqueous lithium - ion batteries.

At rapid - fire speed, he queried the researchers on the status of their «paradigms.»

This project represents a collaboration between researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, the San Diego Fire - Rescue Department, and local corporate partners.

Researchers spotted the signature of tetraneutrons at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, after firing a beam of neutron - rich helium nuclei (two protons, six neutrons) at a liquid composed of the most common form of helium (two protons, two neutrons).

But in the most recent case in 2010, NRC acted as both judge and executioner, retracting the grant of a researcher at the Karolinska Institute after finding widespread misconduct in her lab; on the basis of their findings, her new employer, Gothenburg University, fired her.

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.

Researchers have fired a wireless signal through slabs of pork and beef at speeds fast enough to transmit high - definition video.

The researchers knew that neurons fire at a steady rate to form memories but also that new experiences can overstimulate them.

Torero got interested in fire after he left Peru to study engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met researchers working on fire safety problems for the International Space Station.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.