June 30, 1908, 7:14 a.m., central Siberia—Semen Semenov, a local farmer, saw “the sky split in two. Fire appeared high and wide over the forest. . . . From . . . where the fire was, came strong heat. . . . Then the sky shut closed, and a strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few yards.... After that such noise came, as if . . . cannons were firing, the earth shook .. .” Such is the harrowing...

SEE PAGE 829 C hronic kidney disease (CKD) promotes cardiac injury, and heart failure begets kidney injury. Although shared risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, and atherosclerosis are wellknown igniters of the combustible interaction between chronic heart and kidney diseases, identification of the accelerants that drive the full-fledged public health conflagration of “cardiorenal” dise...

Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many largescale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical large-scale fires, including wind-driven urban and wildland conflagrations and post-earthquake fires are given as examples. In addition, research o...

Approximately one billion people globally live in informal settlements with a large potential fire risk, where single dwelling may result very urban conflagration leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of homeless. What is well understood, however, how fires settlement dwellings develop and spread, what influence the boundary has on these two areas. In this work, four different real-scale compartm...

BackgroundTraumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) is a severe and life-threatening situation that mandates urgent action. Outcomes after on-scene treatment of TCA in the Netherlands are currently unknown. The aim current study was to investigate rate survival discharge patients who suffered from traumatic were subsequently treated by Dutch Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS).MethodsA retrospect...

Ever since the partition of Indian subcontinent in 1947, India and Pakistan have marched on the path of mutual animosity. Both the countries are struggling to clear out their relation clouded by the debris of partition. Not only are Indo-Pakistani relations tremendously explosive, intertwined as they are with communal relations and internal power struggles in both countries. With their inherent...

Ecological processes frequently occur at multiple spatial scales simultaneously. For example, fires imprint the landscape at a variety of spatial scales, from small areas of high burn intensity due to patchy surface fuels, to large stands within fires that escape conflagration entirely (Fig. 7.1). These types of complex disturbances can increase environmental heterogeneity and thus species dive...