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        NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research
                        May 4, 2022The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage
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        Influence of Dispositional and Situational Factors on Human Perceptions of Fire Risk
                        June 25, 2020
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                                Isaac T. Leventon,   Justin W. BonnyStudies of human behavior during emergencies have observed that when presented with situational cues that a hazard may be present, humans can fail to act on
  Towards a Process to Quantify the Hazard of Fire Protection Design Alternatives
                        May 1, 2019
                  Author(s)
                                Paul A. Reneke,   Morgan  Bruns,   Stanley W. Gilbert,   Chandler P. MacLaren,   Richard D. Peacock,   Thomas G. Cleary,   David T. ButryThere are a variety of fire protection technologies that have the potential to improve life safety in residences including barrier fabrics for upholstered
  Cognitive Biases Within Decision Making During Fire Evacuations
                        March 8, 2019
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                                Michael  Kinsey,   Steve  Gwynne,   Erica D. Kuligowski,   Max  KinatederDuring a fire evacuation, once an individual perceives cues from a fire event, they must interpret them to assess the new situation and determine whether action
  A Pre-Evacuation Database for Use in Egress Simulations
                        January 11, 2019
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                                Ruggiero  Lovreglio,   Erica D. Kuligowski,   Steve  Gwynne,   Karen E. BoyceQuantifying the pre-evacuation time; i.e., the time between first awareness and deliberate evacuation movement, is a key task for evacuation model users and
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