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School Security & Active Shooter Interdiction: A Q&A With Vince Riden

Security Industry Association

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats.

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Introduction to Polars

Advancing Analytics

Lazy Evaluation: Polars can perform eager and lazy execution patterns, skipping redundant processing. In the benchmark tests conducted by H2O.ai , Polars demonstrated superior performance on aggregation tasks by completing the 50GB dataset aggregation in just 143 seconds. agg(pl.col('other_column').mean())

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

This can include activities such as welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, and other similar processes that generate heat and sparks. The second step is to evaluate what hazards are present and the likelihood of the fuel and ignition sources coming together based on the type of hot work. What is hot work?

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Five ways to improve campus safety and security

everbridge

Especially because “ K-12 schools and higher education institutions are the second most common location, after businesses, for active shooter incidents in the U.S. Gain valuable insights from nearly 800 security professionals on key initiatives and actionable recommendations inside the Everbridge 2023 Active Shooter Preparedness Report.

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What Is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in the Data Center?

Pure Storage

Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a metric designed to evaluate the efficiency of a data center by comparing the total energy consumed by a data center or facility with the energy utilized by the facility’s IT equipment. PUE serves as a benchmark for assessing the efficiency of data centers in terms of energy consumption.

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The Everbridge Contribution to Research on Societal Resilience

everbridge

By participating in the Disaster Resilient Societies Cluster, Everbridge actively contributes to Project-ENGAGE, in collaboration with a consortium of 14 partners. Our forward-looking, mission-driven vision does not stop there. HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.

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Strategic Risk Management

LogisManager

Conversely, tactical risks, also known as operational risks, are more immediate, arising from the day-to-day execution of activities within the existing strategic framework. It involves identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks to enhance decision-making and safeguard long-term objectives. What Is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?

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