- Author
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Bruck, D.
- Title
- Who, What, Where and Why of Waking to Fire Alarms: A Review.
- Coporate
- Victoria Univ., Australia
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 36,
No. 7,
623-639,
October 2001
- Keywords
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fire alarm systems
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sleep
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wakefulness
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signals
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human response
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auditory perception
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noise (sound)
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medications
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fire fatalities
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fire statistics
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fire risk
- Identifiers
- auditory arousal research; age and sleep deprivation; summary of details from six articles on arousal to smoke alarms and one article presenting auditory arousal thersholds (AATs); background noise, signal frequency and hearing loss; hearing threshold vales (dBA); time of night/stage of sleep; individual differences; signal meaningfulness; methodological issues; fire fatality statistics and victim characteristics