Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

Fire in the Earth system.

Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and climate. Although humans and fire have always coexisted, our capacity to manage fire remains imperfect and may become more difficult in the future as c...

Earth, Fire and Water: Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Recovery and Knowledge Management - Investigating Malaysian Community Behaviour

This paper reports on an investigation of the critical success factors (CSFs) of knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian undergraduate students (MUS). The research question considered the question regarding “what makes knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) successful among two Malaysian undergraduate communities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?”The overall aim of ...

Modeling Realistic Water and Fire

An overview of the latest techniques on computer graphics to model realistic water and fire is given. These fluid models are based on a simplification of the Navier-Stokes equations. Some of the most important applications represent real life problems solving as water flood, real fire situation, firemen training and others. Regarding water modeling, there are compared the different approaches, ...

Fire and Pesticides: Air Quality Considerations

The classes of primary chemical products naturally produced by the combustion of forest fuels include: carbon dioxide, water, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, methane and nonmethane hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatic hyrocarbons, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, aldehydes, free radicals, and inorganic elements. Pesticides are a class of secondary chemical byproducts of fires that have been of so...

Earth and Fire: Ceramics from Thesheldon Memorial Art Gallery