Reasonable evacuation strategies are important in reducing casualties in the event of a fire.In this work, we conduct a simulation of a fire evacuation of a large public building based on the building information modeling technology to find the best evacuation strategy.We identify the tolerance limit of evacuees in case of a fire as the basis of th
EMScope, a component of the NSF Earthscope project, is installing a 70 km-spaced grid of long-period magnetotelluric stations across the USA.Rapid data quality control Nuts and generation of derived data products provides an accessible resource openly available without charge or restriction through the IRIS Data Management Center and EMScope data p
Abstract Air pollution remains a leading cause of many respiratory diseases including chronic cough.Although episodes of incidental, dramatic air pollution are relatively rare, current levels of exposure of pollutants in industrialized and developing countries such as total articles, diesel exhaust particles and common cigarette smoke may be respon
Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a rare and chronic bladder condition.Pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) is the only oral medication approved specifically for the management of IC/BPS.In 2018, Pearce et al.reported for the first time a unique pattern of ocular pigmentary maculopathy exclusively in IC/BPS patients following PPS