This article discusses the possibilities and methods for rescuing people from abandoned mine workings and the cooperation of the components of the Integrated Rescue System of the Slovak Republic when carrying out rescue work in underground spaces, sp...
Working in the forest is dangerous, especially in the case of motor manual work, which represents a significant proportion of all forest work in Germany. Nevertheless, many accidents in the forest also happen during recreational activities. In the un...
When a construction disaster occurs, the first-line rescue personnel often enter the disaster site immediately, and every second counts in rescuing the people who need help. However, the rescue personnel may not be familiar with the indoor layouts of...
A novel and an efficient rescue system with a multi-agent simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework is proposed to reduce the rescue time while rescuing the people trapped inside a burning building. In this study, the truncated signed di...
When disasters such as fires or earthquakes occur, rescue personnel entering buildings are prone to spatial disorientation when the buildings have complex indoor compartments or compartments with high uniformity and similarity. This situation may exp...
To effectively enhance the adaptability of earthquake rescue robots in dynamic environments and complex tasks, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive evaluation method that encompasses establishing an evaluation index system, testing performance...
In view of the complexity, vagueness, and systematization of metal mine emergency rescue system evaluation, regret theory was introduced, and a comprehensive evaluation model of the metal mine emergency rescue system was established. Firstly, from fo...
To successfully deal with emergent events or crises, it is necessary to have a fully planned integrated rescue system (IRS). The stages of the IRS are tested by exercises that aim to model rescue and clean-up operations as closely as possible. This a...
Background: Demand for Hamburg’s ambulance rescue system (ARS) in Germany, which is managed by the fire service, increased by more than 10% between 2019 and 2021. This increase was mainly driven by a more than 20% increase in non-critical ambul...
Component parameters directly affect the dynamic characteristics of suspension systems in small rescue craft. To study and improve the vibration reduction performance of a new suspension system, sensitivity analysis and genetic algorithm (GA) optimiz...
Utilizing reliable and accurate positioning and navigation systems is crucial for saving the lives of rescue personnel and accelerating rescue operations. However, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), such as GPS, may not provide stable signa...
Technological breakthroughs in recent years have led to a revolution in fields such as Machine Vision and Search and Rescue Robotics (SAR), thanks to the application and development of new and improved neural networks to vision models together with m...
The analysis in hand provides a brief assessment of the United States’ and Canada’s marine transportation system and relevant search and rescue (SAR) support in relation to the Northwest Passage, with the purpose of examining to what extent these cou...
In sudden disaster scenarios, the rapid strategy-driven task-chain construction of rescue task chains in UAV-assisted heterogeneous emergency rescue systems is critical for an effective emergency response. Such systems usually involve multiple types...
To maintain proteostasis, the cell employs multiple ribosome rescue systems to relieve the stalled ribosome on problematic mRNA. One example of problematic mRNA is non-stop mRNA that lacks an in-frame stop codon produced by endonucleolytic cleavage o...
Drowning remains the third leading cause of accidental injury-related deaths worldwide, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries where lifeguard coverage is limited or absent. To address this critical gap, we present Robobuoy, an...
With the increasing availability of unmanned aircraft systems, their usage for search and rescue is close at hand. Especially in the maritime context, aerial support can yield significant benefits. This article proposes and evaluates the concept of c...
Modern buildings are large and complex, and as more time is spent inside them, the risk of indoor disasters such as fires and gas leaks increases. In the event of such a disaster, the success of the rescue operation depends on the ability of the resc...
After a mine-fire accident occurs, a large number of emergency resources need to be allocated to rescue those involved in the mine-fire accident. The allocation of emergency resources for mine-fire accidents has the characteristic of being a complex...
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are increasingly being used in search and rescue (SAR) operations to assist in the discovery of missing persons. UAS are useful to first responders in SAR operations due to rapid deployment, high data volume, and high sp...
Maritime vision sensing can be applied to maritime unmanned systems to perform search and rescue (SAR) missions under complex marine environments, as multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are able to conduct vi...
This study aimed to shorten firefighter search times during indoor fires, allowing more people to be rescued, by enhancing disaster-prevention capabilities using building technologies. In indoor fires, fatalities are often caused by the failure of fi...
Stranded and recumbent equids often require emergency rescue, and a successful rescue often requires vertical lifting of the animal. Currently, the devices used for vertical lifting of equids are not readily available at an incident or urgent situati...
This study tackled the multimodal facility location problem in emergency medical rescue. First, an intermodal setting was suggested, i.e., considering cooperation between ground ambulances and helicopters in emergency medical rescues. Specifically, f...
Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks are a prom...
This paper introduces a search-and-rescue robot system used for remote sensing of the underground coal mine environment, which is composed of an operating control unit and two mobile robots with explosion-proof and waterproof function. This robot sys...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a primary role in a plethora of technical and scientific fields owing to their wide range of applications. In particular, the provision of emergency services during the occurrence of a crisis event is a vital appl...
Entrapped, stranded and recumbent equids often require emergency rescue. The success of the rescue is often affected by secondary injuries from struggling of the horse to rise and from injury secondary to attempted rescue by pulling on the head or li...
The rotavirus species A (RVA) capsid contains the spike protein VP4, which interacts with VP6 and VP7 and is involved in cellular receptor binding. The capsid encloses the genome consisting of eleven dsRNA segments. Reassortment events can result in...
Maritime search and rescue (SAR) demands reliable sensing and communication under sea clutter. Emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology provides new opportunities for the development and modernization of maritime radio communic...
This study proposes a coordinated control strategy to solve the coupling problem between the multi-axle steering system and the active suspension system of emergency rescue vehicles. Firstly, an eleven-degree-of-freedom coupling model of an emergency...
In search and rescue (SAR) operations, up-to-date information on the terrain is critical because every additional hour required to search for a person reduces the likelihood of success. Therefore, it is necessary to provide quick access and the best...
A six degree-of-freedom (DOF) motion control system for docking with a deep submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) test platform was the focus of this study. The existing control methods can meet the general requirements of underwater operations, but the...
This paper explores the potential of an Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) system to enhance search-and-rescue operations. While prior research has explored ISAC capabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), our study focuses on addressin...
With the global increase in maritime activities, the frequency of maritime accidents has risen, underscoring the urgent need for faster and more efficient search and rescue (SAR) solutions. This study presents an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (...
The adipose tissue, regardless of its role in generating and storing energy, acts as a key player as an endocrine tissue, producing a wide scale of cytokines/hormones called adipokines. Adipokines such as leptin, resistin, visfatin and osteopontin ow...
Recent advances in search and rescue methods include the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to carry out aerial monitoring of terrains to spot lost individuals. To date, such searches have been conducted by human observers who view UAV-acquired...
To solve the problem that small rescue vessels are seriously affected by waves when working at sea, which causes damage to the crew and equipment, a catamaran with a suspended and articulated cabin is designed. The multi-body dynamic model of the who...
In recent years, the research on drones has increased rapidly because of its high applicability in many fields and its great development potential. In the maritime sector too, especially marine rescue, a Drone with a compact size and fast flight spee...
Whenever natural and human-made disasters strike, the proper response of the concerned authorities often relies on search and rescue services. Search and rescue services are complex multidisciplinary processes that involve several degrees of interdep...
Drought and flood disasters are common events threatening the safety of human lives, and full-time water conservancy emergency rescue teams play an important role in fighting against these disasters. In this paper, a competency assessment indicator s...
The issues discussed in this article concern the energy efficiency of transport tasks carried out by the air SAR system in the Baltic Sea. Search and rescue (SAR) are rescue operations consisting of finding people in danger, providing them with help,...
In view of the ambiguity and randomness of the assessment of earthquake scene rescue performance, this paper proposes an integrated assessment method considering quantitative and qualitative influencing factors from three levels: search, rescue and m...
Ensuring a higher degree of road safety contributes both to the quality of transport services and to the level of the costs involved in rescue operations. The initiation points of managing a rescue operation are situational awareness on accident dete...
Cyber-physical systems that include human beings and vehicles in a built environment, such as a building or a city, together with sensor networks and decision support systems have attracted much attention. In emergencies, which also include mobile se...
Despite the technological progress achieved by our society, natural or man-made disasters continue to pose a challenge and put to the test the organization and preparedness of government apparatuses. The loss of life and property following calamities...
In this study, based on a real fire in an object intended to produce electricity, the method of fire extinguishing by fire protection units with components of the Integrated Rescue System was characterised. The goal was to examine the effectiveness o...
Ebola virus (EBOV) causes hemorrhagic fever in humans with high case fatality rates. In the past, a number of recombinant EBOVs expressing different reporters from additional transcription units or as fusion proteins have been rescued. These viruses...
Our paper employs complex network theory and the SEIQRS epidemic model based on the dynamics of differential equations to investigate the contagion mechanisms of financial risk within banking systems and to evaluate rescue strategies. A scale-free in...
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In addition to property damage and loss of lives, environment pollution, such as water pollution and air pollution caused by accidents in chemical industrial parks (CIPs) is a significant issue in China. An emergency response system (ERS) was therefo...
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