OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper was to explore key factors that influenced the spread of "See and Treat" in a range of accident and emergency (A&E) departments. METHODS The study adopted a qualitative approach, and semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 21 key individuals working across 10 A&E departments operating See and Treat. Participants included clinicians, managers, and chief...

An operational wildland fire model need to be robust and accurate. In this study, a physical model of fire spread is presented and used to perform simulation with an asynchronous method. The aim of this work is to provide an efficient simulation method capable of providing resutls in less than a minute and a resolution of a few meters using a physical model. The proposed simulation software is ...

The relative importance of fuel, topography, and weather on fire spread varies at different spatial scales, but how the relative importance of these controls respond to changing spatial scales is poorly understood. We designed a "moving window" resampling technique that allowed us to quantify the relative importance of controls on fire spread at continuous spatial scales using boosted regressio...

Wildfires, tree removals, and deer herbivory are potential pathways for spread of non-native plants. I modeled the number recorded nonnative plant species by county compared to wildfire area, densities in eastern United States also forests. Species richness 1016 780 primarily forested counties decreased with increased values three variables; models equally showed negative relationships. For mod...

Managing natural processes at the landscape scale to promote forest health is important, especially in the case of wildfire, where the ability of a landowner to protect his or her individual parcel is constrained by conditions on neighboring ownerships. However, management at a landscape scale is also challenging because it requires cooperation on plans and actions that cross ownership boundari...

Climate change in the western United States has increased the frequency of extreme fire weather events and is projected to increase the area burned by wildfire in the coming decades. This changing fire regime, coupled with increased high-severity fire risk from a legacy of fire exclusion, could destabilize forest carbon (C), decrease net ecosystem exchange (NEE), and consequently reduce the abi...

OBJECTIVE There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM(2.5)) during catastrophic wildfires in southern California in October 2003 was evaluated. METHODS Zip code level PM(2.5) concentrations were estimated using spatial interpolations from measured PM(2.5...

Pinus massoniana forests bordering South China are often affected by wildfires. Fires cause major changes in soil properties in many forest types but little is known about the effects of fire on soil properties in these P. massoniana forests. Such knowledge is important for providing a comprehensive understanding of wildfire effects on soil patterns and for planning appropriate long-term forest...

People commonly refer to “infectious” slogans, “catchy” phrases, or ideas that “spread like wildfire. ” These everyday expressions indicate a basic similarity between the dissemination of ideas and the transmission of disease—both are natural processes in which something is communicated, that is, transferred from one person to another. When a disease spreads quickly and infects many individuals...

Soil is an important, dynamic component of regional and global mercury (Hg) cycles. This study evaluated how changes in forest soil Hg masses caused by atmospheric deposition and wildfire are affected by forest structure. Pre and postfire soil Hg measurements were made over two decades on replicate experimental units of three prefire forest structures (mature unthinned, mature thinned, clear-cu...