Sökning: "Fire services"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden Fire services.
21. Economic evaluation, value of life, stated preference methodology and determinants of risks
Sammanfattning : The first paper examines the value of a statistical life (VSL) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) victims. We found VSL values to be higher for OHCA victims than for people who die in road traffic accidents and a lower-bound estimate of VSL for OHCA would be in the range of 20 to 30 million Swedish crowns (SEK). LÄS MER
22. Control Strategies for Improving Cloud Service Robustness
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses challenges in increasing the robustness of cloud-deployed applications and services to unexpected events and dynamic workloads. Without precautions, hardware failures and unpredictable large traffic variations can quickly degrade the performance of an application due to mismatch between provisioned resources and capacity needs. LÄS MER
23. Generic support for decision-making in management and command and control
Sammanfattning : Flexibility is the keyword when preparing for the uncertainfuture tasks for the civilian and military defence. Supporttools relying on general principles will greatlyfacilitateflexible co-ordination and co-operation between differentcivilian and military organizations, and also between differentcommand levels. LÄS MER
24. Exploring firefighters' health and wellbeing
Sammanfattning : Background: This thesis supports the assumption that firefighters’ health and mental well-being is important, in order to cope with the stress that the profession implies. As health is an essential part of everyday life, it seems substantially to understand how an almost exclusively male workforce of firefighters construct their discourse in relation to health and well-being. LÄS MER
25. Angels in Unstable Sociomaterial Relations : Stories of Information Technology
Sammanfattning : I have explored spaces, where negotiations of border transgressions take place and where issues of technology and politics mingle. We meet a diversity of actors in the world of information technology (IT): political texts, people and technology participating in numerous sociomaterial relations. LÄS MER