most people are interested to know the effects of hazards on their life, health and environment. we have decided to answer the question “why hazards science?” in each issue of the journal. the necessity of raising this question isn’t based on the activity of the present magazine entitled hazards science (though the scientific approach we adopt here is a new combined approach), but the numerous ...

Even by their simple presence, people can discourage crime from happening at specijic times and places. Such direct-contact discouragement can occur when "guardians" keep an eye on potential crime targets (Cohen and Felson, 1979), or when "handlers" do the same for potential offenders (Felson, 1986). Eck (1994) adds a third type of discouragement role: "managers" who monitor places. Eck present...

The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable Internet application environment that enables people and roles to effectively capture, publish, share and manage explicit knowledge resources. As an important function of the e-Science Knowledge Grid, this paper proposes an approach to effectively push scientific documents within research teams by detecting the social characteristics in self-...

• Systematic literature review of relevant research efforts focusing on AI for throughput bottleneck analysis. Presented a classification structure four categories: identify, diagnose, predict and prescribe. For each category, outlined state-of-the-art re: input data, modelling approach outputs. Provided 8 future directions to advance the field Outlined 7 recommendations adoption academic solut...

This article focuses on social situations in which people are surprised about what is happening and inhibited about how to respond to the situation at hand. We study these situations by examining a classic topic in social psychology: how people respond to receiving better outcomes than are deserved. In these situations, the actions of an authority or a coworker push in the direction of acceptin...