The delivery of user-tailored warning messages for heterogeneous user groups is a challenge rarely covered by hazard monitoring and early warning systems. While attention is mostly focused on sensor measurements and disaster prediction, warning message dissemination is often based on technical terminology and is not appropriate for the majority of interested user groups. This article describes ...

By introducing the theory of system safety science, and applying the gray theory prediction method, this paper aims at analysing the major hazards of spontaneous combustion of coal, and divided the impact indicators system into three categories, namely; static indicator, dynamic indicator, and intensive monitoring indicator. The static class indicator determined the hazard class by using risk e...

A No early warning signals for stochastic transitions driven by large but constant strength of stochasticity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 B No early warning signals for stochastic transitions in agent based models driven by large but constant strength of stochasticity. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 C Sensitivity analysis for early warning signals of crashes in DJI. . . . . . . 6 D...

A series of bridge collapse take place in recent years, which cause people to pay more attention to bridge health monitoring and early warning. An intelligent health monitoring system for bridges is proposed after analyzing the functions and characteristics of the current bridge health monitoring system. The paper first introduce main functions of system and key technologies, then mainly introd...

We have introduced an early warning system for volatility regimes regarding Tehran Stock Exchange using Markov Switching GARCH approach. We have examined whether Tehran Stock Market has calmed down or more specifically, whether the surge in volatility during 2007-2010 global financial crises still affects stock return volatility in Iran.  Doing so, we have used a regime switching GARCH model.  ...

Despite the potential of new technologies and the improvements of early-warning systems since the 2004 Tsunami, damage and harm caused by disasters do not stop to increase. There is a clear need for better integrating the fragmented landscape of researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of decision support for disaster risk reduction and response. To demonstrate and discuss the...

A woman is riding an elevator when her fellow passengers start to sneeze. As she wonders what sort of sickness the other riders might be spreading, her immune system swings into action. If the bug being dispersed by the contagious sneezers is one the woman has met before, a battalion of trained immune cells—the foot soldiers of the so-called adaptive immune system—will remember the specifi c in...

To accommodate the staggering increase in federal litigation that has occurred in recent years, the federal judicial process has been gradually, but significantly, transformed. The number of federal judges has dramatically increased at both the trial and appellate levels.' The number of law clerks and "staff attorneys" employed in the courts of appeals also has grown dramatically.2 Moreover, an...