The extent of the burnt zone has been established by drilling. The thickest section, about 75 metres deep, underlies the Dry Lake gulch near the base of the coal measures. Other profiles of the bllrnt zone give an average thickness of about 25 metres, although thinning and some discontinuity is appartlnt. The present area of the burnt zone amounting to about 3.5 square kilometres is evidently o...

Rodica Gilca, Charles Frenette, Nathanaëlle Thériault, Élise Fortin, and Jasmin Villeneuve Author affi liations: Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada (R. Gilca, E. Fortin); Québec University Hospital Centre, Québec City (R. Gilca); Laval University, Québec City (R. Gilca); McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Québec, Canada (C. Frenette, E. Fortin); a...

S-E. Kim, S. McNally, L. K. Findeiss, J. Hulet, J. Roberts, E-K. Jeong, D. L. Parker, and G. S. Treiman UCAIR, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Veterans ...

Many cities in the world have moved toward being e-city using IT and there are some who have implemented it and or seeking out to make it operational. However, experience shows that implementation of e-city faces Challenges which the effectiveness of e-city, improvement of provided services and security are the most important part of these challenges. Today, for realization of a perfect e-city,...

A study of 426 rabbits from 3 cities in Jilin province (Changchun City and Jilin City) and Liaoning province (Shenyang City) was conducted between May and June 2015. The overall prevalence of E. bieneusi in rabbits was 0.94% (4/426), with 0% (0/116), 1.72% (3/174), and 0.74% (1/136) in Jilin, Changchun, and Shenyang City, respectively. Only 3 farms (farm 1 and farm 3 in Changchun City, farm 8 i...

Wildfires are a major source of disturbance to the boreal forest ecosystem as they have been documented to bum as much as 1.5 percent (22 million ha) of its global area in a single year (Cofer et a!., 1996). Fires in this ecosystem typically kill the standing trees and thus exert a dominant control on landscape level patterns of forest succession and stand age distribution (Johnson, 1992). Fire...

Using 100 years of fire perimeter maps, we investigate the existence of geographical patterns in fire orientation across California. We computed fire perimeter orientation, at the watershed level, using principal component analysis. Circular statistics were used to test for the existence of preferential fire perimeter orientations. Where perimeters displayed preferential orientation, we searche...

Fire processes contribute to carbon dioxide emissions, main gas responsible for the Greenhouse Effect. Considering the importance of fire processes management for the detection of burnt areas in the Brazilian Amazon, the Linear Spectral Mixture Model is one of the main methods available. Nonetheless, some manual processes are required before its application, such as identifying adequate images ...

A timberline stand of Libocedrus bidwillii subalpine low forest at Pegleg Flat, Arthur's Pass, was partly destroyed by fire in the late 19th century. Patches of surviving low forest contain very few Libocedrus seedlings and lack young trees of 5-15 cm d.b.h. Only 14 large seedlings and saplings were located in the postfire sere in the formerly burnt areas. The small numbers of seedlings on both...

Patterns can be extracted from historical data and used to make predictions of future events. Such predictions are useful to support decision makers in various areas. In this study the sliding window technique is used to reveal forest fire patterns that relate four meteorological conditions (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and rainfall) with burnt area size. Extracted patterns are th...