Fundamental Research on Absorbing Energy from Ocean Waves (4th report)

Report from the 4th International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste: Venice 2012.

In this section of the Journal the reader will find information on the IWWG (International Waste Working Group), reports on activities carried out by Task Groups, a list of future events and relevant notes on the think tank elaboration and activities of the association. In this issue: report from the Venice 2012 Symposium and notes from the last IWWG Managing Board meeting, which was held in Ve...

Report from the 4th Workshop on Extremely Large Databases

Academic and industrial users are increasingly facing the challenge of petabytes of data, but managing and analyzing such large data sets still remains a daunting task. The 4 Extremely Large Databases workshop was organized to examine the needs of communities under-represented at the past workshops facing these issues. Approaches to big data statistical analytics as well as emerging opportuniti...

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This paper develops dynamic structural models --an option value model and a dynamic programming model-of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) augment...

Characterizing Dangerous Waves for Ocean Wave Energy Converter Survivability

Ocean Wave Energy Converters (OWECs) operating on the water surface are subject to storms and other extreme events. In particular, high and steep waves, especially breaking waves, are likely the most dangerous to OWECs. A method for quantifying the breaking severity of waves is presented and applied to wave data from Coastal Data Information Program station 139. The data are wave height and len...

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