Recent large-scale disasters have made middle-ranked fire defense officers responsible for routine fire fighting activities, and a tendency of alcohol dependence associated with other stressful problems is noted in Japan. We assessed the alcohol dependence tendency with the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) in firefighters. Occupational stress, depression and other factors were ...

Southern European countries are severally affected by forest fires every year, which lead to very large environmental damages and great economic investments to recover affected areas. All affected countries invest lots of resources to minimize fire damages. Emerging technologies are used to help wildfire analysts determine fire behavior and spread aiming at a more efficient use of resources in ...

I started working in resource-bounded reasoning as part of the PHOENIX project (Cohen et al. 1989; Hart & Cohen 1990; Greenberg & Westbrook 1990), while a graduate student in the Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory (EKSL) at UMass, Amherst. The PHOENIX problem domain is forest fire fighting, for which EKSL built a sophisticated computer simulation of forest fires in Yellowstone National P...

The aim of this study was to assess the tasks and activities that make physical demands on Dutch fire-fighters and to compare them with a guideline related to the development of excessive fatigue. The occupational physical demands on Dutch fire-fighters were assessed by conducting a task analysis during 85 24-h shifts. While workplace observations on the duration and frequency of physical tasks...

Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, tens of thousands foreign fighters from different parts world have joined various armed groups Syria and Iraq. There are three main fighters: Firstly, pro-ISIS who associated with jihadist like Islamic State Iraq (ISIS); secondly, pro-regime Shiite affiliated Assad government; finally, anti-ISIS Western fighters, fighting Kurdish Christian against ISIS ...