The first documented confirmed case of an imported fire ant causing anaphylaxis in Canada is herein reported. In a patient with anaphylaxis to ants a physician in Canada should be aware that an allergic reaction to fire ant is a possibility.

Real-time detection of fire flame in video scenes from a surveillance camera offers early warning to ensure prompt reaction to devastating fire hazards. Many existing fire detection methods based on computer vision technology have achieved high detection rates, but often with unacceptably high falsealarm rates. This paper presents a reliable visual analysis technique for fast fire flame detecti...

natural fire inflicting irreparable damage to rangelands and forest areas is cause changes in landscape ecology. the purpose of this research is comparison of artificial neural network (ann) and line regression (lr) models to predict of forest and rangelands fires to this end, the data consist fire burned area and fire were used weather data over a period of 7 years (2006-2012(.the result indic...

Abstract As material age, the durability, strength, and other mechanical properties are impacted. The lifespan of a generally decreases when exposed to weathering conditions such as wind, temperature, humidity, light. It is important have knowledge how materials age affected. Regarding materials´ fire behaviour effect ageing on these properties, limited. research questions current work are: Are...

introduction the fire services play a key role in safety issues for any country. the operations of the services have a high visibility since the public is aware of its own vulnerability and possibly vital reliance on the service. firemen and women are rightly admired, particularly as their intervention may carry a risk to their own lives. more generally, this service comes at a considerable cos...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of applying methods andamount of ammonium polyphosphate (0, 2 and 4 wt%) on fire retardancy andmechanical properties of wood flour/polypropylene composites. The resultsshowed that addition of fire retardant improved the mechanical properties such astensile and flexural strengths and fire retardancy of composites. But by increasingof fire retar...