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Enrico Ronchi (born 1984) is an Italian Associate Professor at the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and the Department of Transport and Roads at Lund University, Sweden. He is known for his research in evacuation modeling , human behavior in fire, and fire safety engineering.
A backdraft (North American English), backdraught (British English) [1] or smoke explosion is the abrupt burning of superheated gases in a fire caused when oxygen rapidly enters a hot, oxygen-depleted environment; for example, when a window or door to an enclosed space is opened or broken. Backdrafts are typically seen as a blast of smoke and ...
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Within mainstream schools it has been shown that primary schools had a higher number of students with disabilities with a high 9.1% where students within secondary schools where only 7.4% had a disability. Out of the 71,000 students attending school with a disability, 64.7% have been known to have a severe or core-activated limitation.
Gray goo is another catastrophic scenario, which was proposed by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation [76] and has been a theme in mainstream media and fiction. [77] [78] This scenario involves tiny self-replicating robots that consume the entire biosphere using it as a source of energy and building blocks. Nowadays, however ...
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A particularly common fire scenario is a cigarette igniting a piece of upholstered furniture. This ignition leads to a smouldering fire that lasts for a long period of time (in the order of hours), spreading slowly and silently until critical conditions are attained and flames suddenly erupt; [ 4 ] fire-resistant cigarettes have been developed ...
For example, according to Best Friends Network staff, cats can exist with barely noticeable behavioral changes as their loss of sight comes on gradually. As they start losing vision, felines begin ...