Vehicle-augmented evacuation integer programming model for improving safety and efficiency in underground mines
March 2025
Ensuring the safe evacuation of miners during fire emergencies in the shortest possible time is one of the most critical aspects of underground mining operations. Despite advances in mining evacuation...
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Novel explicit models for assessing the frictional resistance of pipe piles subjected to seismic effects
March 2025
This paper introduces novel explicit models to predict the frictional resistance of open and closed-ended pipe piles subjected to seismic loading. This research employs genetic programming (GP) and...
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Combining Bayesian Networks and MCDA methods to maximise information gain during reconnaissance in emergency situations
March 2025
In the immediacy of an event that disrupts the operation of an infrastructure, the time between its occurrence and the arrival of qualified personnel for emergency response can be valuable. For example,...
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Grasping emergency dynamics: A review of group evacuation techniques and strategies in major emergencies
March 2025
Major sudden disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, and fires, often cause significant casualties. Emergency evacuation is crucial in mitigating these impacts. Different types of disaster incidents...
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Effects of firefighters’ protective gloves on physiological responses, psychological responses, and manual performance in a cold environment
March 2025
This study aimed to investigate the effects of firefighters' protective gloves on physiological responses, psychological responses, and manual performance in a cold environment through human trials....
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A systematic review of safety risk assessment research in China
March 2025
The rapid industrialization and urbanization in China require a high level of safety management and thus urge the development of safety risk assessment in China. In the past two decades, many safety...
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Safe Evacuation Framework with Intelligent Dynamic Exit Sign System and Demonstration in Tunnel Fire
Available online 12 January 2025
•Propose an Intelligent Dynamic Exit Sign (IDES) System for tunnel fire safety•Introduce a reversion mechanism for turning dynamic signs to static mode to resolve moral issue•Validate the IDES system...
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A spatial scene reconstruction framework in emergency response scenario
December 2024
Rapid and accurate acquisition and analysis of information is crucial for emergency management, but traditional methods have limitations such as incomplete information acquisition and slow processing...
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Comfort assessment of wind induced vibrations for slender structures by field monitoring and numerical analysis
December 2024
Slender structures often lead to vibration discomfort for occupants when exposed to wind forces. This study proposes an innovative method for assessing comfort against wind-induced vibrations for slender...
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YOLOv8-EMSC: A lightweight fire recognition algorithm for large spaces
December 2024
Stringent fire prevention requirements are imperative in expansive environments. Fire detection in diverse large-scale settings typically relies on sensor-based or AI-driven target detection methods....
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Exploring the risks of automation bias in healthcare artificial intelligence applications: A Bowtie analysis
December 2024
This study conducts an in-depth review and Bowtie analysis of automation bias in AI-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) within healthcare settings. Automation bias, the tendency of human...
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DyHDGE: Dynamic heterogeneous transaction graph embedding for safety-centric fraud detection in financial scenarios
December 2024
•Offer a method that extracts temporal and structural information from a dynamic graph.•Utilize multiple encoders to process heterogeneous nodes to reduce noisy features.•Utilize the loss function to...
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Improving the industrial safety management system at enterprises with chemically hazardous sites
December 2024
This study focuses on developing an industrial and occupational safety management system for enterprises that contain chemically hazardous sites. The methodology, based on an expert approach, enabled...
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Determination of individual disaster resilience levels of hospital staff: A case study of Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kirdar City Hospital
December 2024
Istanbul is one of Turkey's most important financial and industrial centers, and it is located in a region with a high potential for seismicity. Due to its historical architecture and high level of...
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Risk assessment of fire casualty in underground commercial building based on FFTA-BN model
December 2024
•Development of a fire casualty risk assessment model for underground commercial building integrating FFTA and BN.•From post-incident and pre-incident perspectives to provide decision support for emergency...
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Scenario construction and vulnerability assessment of natural hazards-triggered power grid accidents
December 2024
In light of escalating urbanization trends and climate change impacts worldwide, the susceptibility of urban power grids to natural disasters has become an overarching global concern. Prior research...
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Multi-factor coupled forest fire model based on cellular automata
December 2024
The risk of forest fires is substantial due to uneven precipitation distributions and abnormal climate change. This study employs cellular automata principles to analyze forest fire behavior, taking...
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Optimization of Vehicle Routing Problems Combining the Demand Urgency and Road Damage for Multiple Disasters
Available online 31 December 2024
•The multiple disasters are divided into three different scenarios.•The model takes into account both the demand urgency and road damage.•The demand urgency are quantified through the analysis of five...
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Cost-aware strategies for enhancing energy resilience in microgrids via stationary and mobile resources
Available online 18 December 2024
The primary goal of this research study is to enhance energy resilience with a focus on cost efficiency. To achieve this objective, two key objectives have been identified: (1) reducing unserved loads,...
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SH17: A dataset for human safety and personal protective equipment detection in manufacturing industry
Available online 28 November 2024
Workplace accidents continue to pose significant human safety risks, particularly in the construction and manufacturing industries. The necessity for effective Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance...
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DDC-Chat: Achieving accurate distracted driver classification through instruction tuning of visual language model
Available online 22 November 2024
Driver behavior is a critical factor in road safety, highlighting the need for advanced methods in Distracted Driving Classification (DDC). In this study, we introduce DDC-Chat, a novel classification...
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Analysis of Fire Evacuation Scenarios in Children's Cultural Centers
Available online 18 November 2024
Fires that occur in assembly buildings cause great loss of life and property. Children's cultural centers included in assembly buildings should also be evaluated within this context. Children create...
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The Value of a Statistical Life in Assessing Seismic Resilience Enhancement Policies: A Stated Preference Binary Choice Experiment
Available online 16 November 2024
To decide about investments in appropriate seismic vulnerability reduction and resilience enhancement measures, policymakers need to acquire adequate insight into the value of a statistical life (VSL)....
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Steganographic Model to Conceal the Secret Data in Audio Files Utilizing a Fourfold Paradigm: Interpolation, Multi-Layering, Optimized Sample Space, and Smoothing
Available online 15 November 2024
Audio steganography techniques are evaluated using performance metrics such as payload capacity, stego audio file quality, and security (imperceptibility of hidden data). Increasing payload capacity...
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A data fusion-based method for pedestrian detection and flow statistics across different crowd densities
Available online 28 October 2024
Accurate tracking and statistics analysis of pedestrian flow have wide applications in public scenarios. However, the conventional tracking-by-detection approaches are prone to missing individuals in...
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