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Wildfire management has been struggling in recent years with escalating devastation, expenditures, and complexity. Given the copious factors involved and the complexity of their interactions, uncertainty in the outcomes is a prominent feature of wildfire management strategies, at both policy and operational levels. Improvements in risk handling and in risk-based decision support tools have therefore a key role in addressing these challenges. In this paper, we review key systems created to support wildfire management decision-making at different levels and scales, and describe their evolution from an initial focus on landscape-level fire growth simulation and burn probability assessment, to the incorporation of exposure and economic loss potential (allowing the translation of ignition likelihood, fire environment terrain, fuels, and weather and suppression efficacy into potential fire effects), the integration with forest management and planning, and more recently, to developments in the assessment of values at risk, including real-time assessment. This evolution is linked to a progressive widening of the scope of usage of these systems, from an initial more limited application to risk assessment, to the subsequent inclusion of functionality enabling their Utilization in the context of risk management, and more recently, to their explicit casting in the broader societal context of risks and decisions, from a risk governance perspective. This joint evolution can be seen as the result of a simultaneous pull from methodological progresses in risk handling, and push from technological progress in wildfire management decision support tool, as well as more broadly in computational power. We identify the key benefits and challenges in the development and adoption of these systems, as well as future plausible research trends.

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Entities that participate in the same supply chain or that can complement each other can benefit from reductions in their operational costs and increased operating efficiency when collaborating by sharing information and resources or engaging in joint planning. However, setting up successful collaborations is still an active research topic, particularly in the forest sector, due to the lack of a clearly defined road map for bringing collaboration into practice. This paper builds on a comprehensive literature review to propose a framework for developing inter-firm collaboration, particularly for agents of forest-based supply chains. The framework encompasses identification of collaboration opportunities with potential entities, design of the collaborative strategy, and tools for its implementation. The framework is used to discuss cases of collaboration found in the literature. The framework is also applied to developing a new collaborative process in the wood furniture industry.

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This work describes an in-fiber Michelson interferometer inclinometer which is sensitive to curvature applied in the tapered region. The performance of this inclinometer is evaluated by calculating the variation of the fringe visibility near the 1550 nm spectral range as a function of the tilt angle. It is presented the results of four experimental measurements and calculated the average and standard deviation of those measurements. The results indicate a good response of the sensor within the angular range between 3 degrees and 6 degrees. The average of those four measurements is around -0.15/degrees and the greatest standard deviation is about 5.5%.

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Symptomatic intradialytic hypotension (IDH) continues to be an important complication of hemodialysis treatment. There is some evidence that besides an IDH episode, repeated episodes could represent an even more important independent risk factor for mortality in hemodialysis patients. A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed to study 18 dialysis treatments in 43 patients during 6 weeks. Relationships of IDH episodes with baseline variables were examined using a Poisson regression model (generalized linear model). IDH was frequent (93% of patients) and highly variable by patient (0%-100%). Multivariate analysis showed that patients who experienced frequent hypotensive episodes had a lower dry weight (90% confidence interval [CI]: 0.95-0.99), higher phosphorus levels (90% CI: 1.07-1.47), greater prevalence of diabetes mellitus (90% CI: 1.11-2.71), and hypertension (90% CI: 1.04-2.45). Dry weight, hypertension, and phosphorus levels are modifiable risk factors to possibly reduce the rate of IDH episodes. The potential protective role of phosphorus warrants further investigation.

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