Sentence examples for environment of fire from inspiring English sources

This, however, does not mean that Neanderthals and/or Modern Humans did not use fire for ecosystem management but rather that, if this were indeed the case, the impact on the environment of fire use is not detectable in our records, and was certainly not as pronounced as it was in the biomass burning history of Southeast Asia.

The attraction of tungsten, which is commonly used in light-bulbs, is that it is weighty enough to do damage but, unlike lead, is non-toxic.That matters because military men, too, have to think about the environment particularly the environment of firing ranges where, in these relatively peaceful days, most ammunition is spent.

In the chaotic environment of a fire or disaster area, knowing where your fellow firefighters and first responders are is of the utmost importance, but GPS and other positional tracking systems aren't always reliable.

Currently, quantitative approaches (e.g. numerical modeling) to estimate the performance and effectiveness of water spray systems have not been developed to a stage where they can be used to optimize the design for different operating environments and types of fire.

Microscopic charcoal is an essential tool in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, informing on fire histories and cycles, vegetative response to fire, climate change and human manipulation of the environment through the use of fire.

The present investigation is an attempt to evaluate the hot corrosion behaviour of high velocity-oxy fuel (HVOF) sprayed NiCrBSi and Stellite-6 coatings on a nickel-based superalloy in an actual industrial environment of a coal fired boiler.

Women are perfectly capable of cooking in controlled environments, of starting fires with pilot lights and adjusting the heat with knobs, the logic goes, but from the beginning of human time, men have lighted fires from sparks and beaten small flames into blazes.

The incorporation of spatial analysis and reasoning into rule-based behavior modeling allows the simulated behaviors to adapt to the development of fire environments.

In brief, this process works by initially determining the unique firing rate pattern of the ensemble for each bin in the environment (the vector of firing rates) and then using it to predict the position of the rat based on the momentary firing rate pattern in the ensemble at each time step.

The chapter on fire prevention acknowledges that controlled burning may be used "to maintain the natural condition of the environment and imitate the use of fire by its traditional owners over tens of thousands of years".

The modern indigenous culture, which prefers open environments and makes extensive use of fire thus preventing forest re-expansion, seem to have established during the last 1500 yr.