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Ahmad Alhasan, Inya Nlenanya, Omar Smadi and Cameron A. MacKenzie
Safety performance is a crucial component of highway network performance evaluation. Besides their devastating impact on roadway users, traffic crashes lead to substantial economic losses on both personal and societal levels. Due to the complexity of cra...
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Seth D. Baum
Astrobiology, the study of life in the universe, offers profound insights into human sustainability. However, astrobiology is commonly neglected in sustainability research. This paper develops three topics connecting astrobiology to sustainability: const...
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Victor Gordo, Ines Becerra, Alejandro Fransoy, Enrique Ventas, Pablo Menendez-Ponte, Yan Xu, Marta Tojal, Javier Perez-Castan and Luis Perez Sanz
The demand for air mobility services will depend on the safety of these operations but also on the transportation time savings in congested urban areas. An adequate air space structure is therefore essential to achieve both objectives. Corridors, the mos...
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David W. Kim
Current scientific developments have reached the stage where human aspirations of space exploration are not science fiction but a reality involving travelling to the Earth?s orbit, the Moon and Mars. In the second half of the twentieth century, internati...
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Wei Li, Jun Zhang, Fang Wang and Hanyun Zhou
The underactuated unmanned surface vessel (USV) has been identified as a promising solution for future maritime transport. However, the challenges of precise trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance remain unresolved for USVs. To this end, this paper m...
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Xing Pan, Song Ding, Wenjin Zhang, Tun Liu, Liqin Wang and Lijing Wang
Space launch projects are extremely risky, and any equipment failure or human error may lead to disastrous consequences. Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is beneficial to qualitative analysis of risk, but it has not been paid enough attention in risk ...
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Tim McCarthy, Lars Pforte and Rebekah Burke
Urban airspace environments present exciting new opportunities for delivering drone services to an increasingly large global market, including: information gathering; package delivery; air-taxi services. A key challenge is how to model airspace environme...
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Thomas Neil McManus, Ana Rosa and Assed Haddad
This article describes development and confirmatory testing of a method to study the evaporation of a volatile solvent containing ignitable ingredients in an isolated subsurface structure, a type of confined space. Accidental spillage and surreptitious d...
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Yong-sik Han, Eun Taek Shin, Tae Soo Eum and Chang Geun Song
Increases in the frequency and severity of extreme rainfall might cause catastrophic submergence of underground spaces. Therefore, it is essential to predict the flood risk for proactive design. This study presents the methodology of acquiring risk level...
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Maria Matos Silva and João Pedro Costa
Assuming the importance of public space design in the implementation of effective adaptation action towards urban flooding, this paper identifies and systematizes a wide range of flood adaptation measures pertinent to the design of public spaces. It pres...
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Maria Matos Silva, João Pedro Costa
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Assuming the importance of public space design in the implementation of effective adaptation action towards urban flooding, this paper identifies and systematizes a wide range of flood adaptation measures pertinent to the design of public spaces. It pres...
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Zhe Sun, Haoyang Li, Yan Bao, Xiaolin Meng and Dongliang Zhang
Timely risk information acquisition and diagnosis during foundation pit excavation (FPE) processes are vital for ensuring the safe and effective construction of underground urban infrastructures. Unfortunately, diverse geological and hydrogeological cond...
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Michael H. Daly,Gary van Vuuren
AbstractOrientation: Active portfolio managers must simultaneously maximise excess returns (over benchmarks), limit risk and observe constraints on, for example, tracking errors (TRs), betas and asset weights.Research purpose: Determining the range of po...
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Olga De Cos, Valentín Castillo and David Cantarero
The space?time behaviour of COVID-19 needs to be analysed from microdata to understand the spread of the virus. Hence, 3D space?time bins and analysis of associated emerging hotspots are useful methods for revealing the areas most at risk from the pandem...
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Victor Olkhov
The description of the dynamics and fluctuations of macro variables remains one of the most exciting problems of financial economics. This paper models macro variables via the description of transactions between agents. We use risk ratings x of agents as...
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Feng Zhou, Shijing Hu, Xin Du, Xiaoli Wan and Jie Wu
In the current field of disease risk prediction research, there are many methods of using servers for centralized computing to train and infer prediction models. However, this centralized computing method increases storage space, the load on network band...
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Phasawee Saingyen, Sittiporn Channumsin, Suwat Sreesawet, Keerati Puttasuwan and Thanathip Limna
The growing number of space objects leads to increases in the potential risks of damage to satellites and generates space debris after colliding. Conjunction assessment analysis is the one of keys to evaluating the collision risk of satellites and satell...
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Meijie Chen, Yumin Chen, John P. Wilson, Huangyuan Tan and Tianyou Chu
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many deaths and economic disruptions across the world. Several studies have examined the effect of corresponding health risk factors in different places, but the problem of spatial heterogeneity has not been adequately ad...
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Yuh-Ming Tsai and Cherng-Yuan Lin
The Taiwan Strait, to the west of Taiwan, is rich in wind energy resources and has the greatest offshore wind power potential in the world. Therefore, Taiwan has been actively expanding its offshore wind power industry in this area in recent years and ex...
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Jonathon Taylor, Phil Symonds, Paul Wilkinson, Clare Heaviside, Helen Macintyre, Michael Davies, Anna Mavrogianni and Emma Hutchinson
Mortality rates rise during hot weather in England, and projected future increases in heatwave frequency and intensity require the development of heat protection measures such as the adaptation of housing to reduce indoor overheating. We apply a combined...
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