Bushfires leave ecologists hot under the collar

Bushfires: a Darwinian perspective

Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Military Family Leave Entitlements Eligible employees whose spouse, son, daughter or parent is on covered active duty or call to covered active duty status may use their 12-week leave entitlement to address certain qualifying e igencies ualifying exigencies may include attending certain military events, arranging for alternative childcare, addressing certain nancial and legal arrangements, atte...

Decision-Making under the Hot-Hand Fallacy

The hot-hand fallacy has long been considered a widespread cognitive illusion with important consequences for decision-makers. A sports player may misinterpret a lucky streak of successful shots, and pursue a more aggressive strategy that hurts one’s performance. A physician prone to the hot-hand fallacy may also misinterpret random streaks of poor patient outcomes, and respond by treating the ...

Emergency response to the Canberra bushfires.

On 18 January 2003, Canberra experienced major bushfires. Over 6 hours, The Canberra Hospital Emergency Department treated 139 patients, 105 with fire-related problems (mostly ophthalmological and respiratory), representing an additional workload of one patient every 4 minutes above average. Only 15% required hospital admission. We believe this is the largest single emergency department respons...

Early warning information seeking in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires

This study examines early warning from the users’ perspective as a special category of information seeking. Specifically, we look at the 2009 Victorian bushfires in Australia as an instructive case of early warning information seeking. The bushfires, the worst in Australia’s recorded history, were unique in its ferocity and damage caused, but also in the amount of data and research that was gen...