Climate models are complex mathematical models designed by meteorologists, geophysicists, and climate scientists, and run as computer simulations, to predict climate. There is currently high variance among the predictions of 20 global climate models, from various laboratories around the world, that inform the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Given temperature predictions from 2...

BACKGROUND A knowledge based planning tool has been developed and implemented for prostate VMAT radiotherapy plans providing a target average rectum dose value based on previously achievable values for similar rectum/PTV overlap. The purpose of this planning tool is to highlight sub-optimal clinical plans and to improve plan quality and consistency. METHODS A historical cohort of 97 VMAT pros...

Several univariate and multivariate models have been proposed for performing short term forecasting of traffic flow. In this paper two different univariate (historical average and ARIMA) and two multivariate (VARMA and STARIMA) models are presented and discussed. A comparison of the forecasting performance of these four models is undertaken using datasets from 25 loop detectors located in major...

While a host of economic variables have been identified in the literature with the apparent in-sample ability to predict the equity premium, Goyal and Welch (2007) find that these variables fail to deliver consistent out-of-sample forecast gains relative to the historical average. Imposing theoretically motivated restrictions on individual predictive regression models, Campbell and Thompson (20...

The China Historical GIS project is developing a set of free tools and datasets covering the geographic space that has, at one time or another, been nominally part of China. The idea is to provide a generic digital platform for historical places that can be seamlessly integrated with a wide variety of contemporary GIS data, but which is not tied to a single data source. The CHGIS data model ena...

due to structural characteristics and spiritual concepts which are latent inside iranian gardens, it has always drawn attention of domestic and foreign researchers and one of the objectives of these researchers was an attempt to achieve historical garden model in iran which have been modified or subjected to decline. the studies, which have been carried out concerning to iranian historical gard...