Besides providing support in dangerous situations like tunnel fires, SINTEF envisions future versions of Anna being used to locate and provide oxygen to earthquake victims or perform maintenance on underwater oil rigs.

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It also found he failed to provide the patient with oxygen, and that he falsely informed the air support paramedics that he was unable to obtain a radial pulse when he never attempted to do so.

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As in those African economies, it is the banks that provide the oxygen to sustain growth.

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Understanding the role of snowflakes in catalysing the change from one sort of oxygen to the other should provide insights into how ozone is distributed in the atmosphere.

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It will eventually carry the Oxygen network to 80% of its 10 million or so subscribers but will provide only 3 million when Oxygen launches next January.

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At the same time fisheries and vital marine ecosystems like coral are being decimated, the oceans continue to provide vital services, absorbing up to one third of human carbon dioxide emissions while producing 50% of all the oxygen we breathe.

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Astronauts must bring what they need, including oxygen, because they cannot rely on their environment to provide it.

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If this alert is received, the pilots should put on masks which will provide them with oxygen while they rapidly descend the aircraft to an altitude where the occupants can breathe without assistance.

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Experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been investigating the accident, suspect that a cargo of more than 100 oxygen generators -- which provide oxygen in case of a cabin emergency -- contributed to the fire.

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