Excerpt] Also important to any analysis of labor costs in the public sector today is, of course, the effect of collective bargaining on wages. For reasons described in a recent article by Orley Ashenfelter, fire fighters provide an excellent test of union wage effects at the city level. This study will therefore use fire fighters as an example with which to assess and compare the effects on wag...

In a longitudinal study of a sample of firemen in London 1006 firemen were interviewed and examined in 1976 and 895 were seen a second time 12 months later. On each occasion a Medical Research Council respiratory questionnaire was administered and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were measured. The average levels of FEV1, FVC, and FEV1/FVC in both ye...

In recent decades, global warming has contributed to an increase in the number and intensity of wildfires destroying millions hectares forest areas causing many casualties each year. Firemen must therefore have most effective means prevent any wildfire from breaking out fight blaze before being unable contain extinguish it. This article will present a new network architecture based on Convoluti...

BACKGROUND A previous study has shown no measurable improvement in triage accuracy among physicians attending the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course and suggests a curriculum revision regarding triage. Other studies have indicated that cooperative learning helps students acquire knowledge. OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of trauma cards in triage...

This article presents a research done with Military Firemen who have passed through three-week intensive firefighting training. Developed by the authors, it was applied an air consumption measurement protocol during use of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), fundamental equipment, before and after that period. It noticed comsuption considerably improved training program, for three differ...

— This report describes the use of a support vector machines with a novel kernel, to determine the breathing rate and inhalation duration of a fire fighter wearing a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus. With this information, an incident commander can monitor the firemen in his command for exhaustion and ensure timely rotation of personnel to ensure overall fire fighter safety.