Starting a fire with a battery sounds risky unless it’s done correctly. This method focuses on reliability, control, and repeatable results. It works with common items and minimal effort. When ...

The Anne Arundel County Fire Department should hire additional staff members and rethink staffing methods to better meet national recommendations, according to a new report. The department is using a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Abstract: Fire detection is a key topic in the field of public safety. Traditional sensor methods are susceptible to interference in complex environments, resulting in high false alarm rate and lack ...

Abstract: To address the issue of traditional Backpropagation (BP) neural networks potentially falling into local optima when processing fire signals in complex environments, this paper proposes an ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new pivot rule of the simplex algorithm. The simplex algorithm first presented by George B. Dantzig, is a widely used method for solving a linear ...