Abstract Landslide run-out modeling is a powerful model-based decision support tool for landslide hazard assessment and mitigation. Most models contain parameters that cannot be directly measured but rely on back-analysis of past events. As field data events come with certain measurement error, the community developed probabilistic calibration techniques. However, parameter often hindered by hi...

In semi-conductor manufacturing industry, production resembles an automated assembly line in which many similar products with slightly different specifications are manufactured step-by-step, with each step being a complicated physiochemical batch process performed by a number of tools. This constitutes a high-mix production system for which effective run-to-run control (RtR) and fault detection...

Releasing the potential of online collaborative technologies in distributed work contexts is still a challenge for work systems managers. The availability of the technologies has outrun proven business models that can maximise the extraction of business value. Key problem areas remain in the management of online human interaction, control of business objectives within the medium, and risk manag...

The UML has become the de facto standard for the analysis and design of complex software. Tool support today includes the generation of code realizing the structural model described by class diagrams as well as code realizing the reactive behavior of the dynamic model described by statecharts. However, the CASE tool support for service-based architectures and especially later process phases add...

A hypervelocity oblique impact results in a downrange-moving vapor cloud, a significant fraction of which is derived from the projectile. Since the vapor cloud expands to great extent and becomes very tenuous quickly on a planet with a thin or no atmosphere, it does not leave a well-defined geologic expression. The thick atmosphere of Venus, however, is sufficient to contain such a rapidly expa...

Debris flows are a common natural disaster in mountainous areas and often cause severe casualties and property loss. Debris-flow run-out effects analysis can provide an idea of the spatial risks posed to the downstream area of a debris flow, which is extremely important for local populations’ lives, disaster mitigation and planning the layout of economic construction. The objective of this stud...

We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition claims that rising incomes cause a transition to democracy, whereas the Critical Junctures hypothesis denies this causal relation. Our empirical strategy is justified by Unified Growth Theory, which hypothesizes that the present international income differences...