In the event of a single, low-yield nuclear detonation in a major urban area, rapidly providing adequate shelter to affected populations could save 10 000– 100 000 individuals from a fatal exposure to fallout radiation. However, poorly sheltered individuals may remain at risk. Current guidance and prior studies are not consistent as to the timing and conditions under which poorly sheltered indi...

Sustainability is of great importance due to increasing demands and limited resources. Many problem classes in sustainable energy systems are data mining, optimization, and control tasks. In this work we demonstrate how techniques from computational intelligence can help in solving important tasks in sustainable energy systems. We will show how statistically sound wind models can be estimated w...

Researchers working in computational modelling can benefit a lot from coupling their code with a well established professional code, particularly when it is of a complementary discipline. However, this coupling is very difficult typically due to lack of a suitable interface or lack of detailed documentation of the commercial software. In this paper the computational fluid-structure interaction ...

A case study to evaluate the use of microfading spectrometry (MFS) for the study of colored systems found in prehistoric rock art paintings was conducted in the Cova Remígia rock-shelter, Castellón (Spain). This rock shelter is part of the rock art sites of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian Peninsula included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Some of the paintings belonging to this group ar...

iran’s industry has had a considerable number of difficulties to perform so well as was expected in the post – revolutionary era. unfavorable legal, political environments combined with eight –year imposed war may be singled out as the root causes of such performances. however, this paper argues that our industry’s lack of realization of its dire need to adapt to the emerging unprecedented envi...

We propose a new method of automatically finding periodic modes of locomotion for arbitrary articulated figures. Cyclic pose control graphs are used as our control representation. These specifically constrain the controller synthesis process to only those controllers producing periodic driving functions. It is shown that stochastic generate-and-test techniques work well with this representation...

This paper presents some novel interface techniques for the visualization of scalar field data in virtual reality environments. In particular, we discuss the direct manipulation of isosurfaces and cutting planes and give general guidelines for design of user interfaces and algorithms for scientific visualization in virtual environments. This work was motivated by the need to visualize scalar fi...

BACKGROUND Provision of shelter for horses kept on summer pasture is rarely considered in welfare guidelines, perhaps because the benefits of shelter in warm conditions are poorly documented scientifically. For cattle, shade is a valued resource during summer and can mitigate the adverse effects of warm weather on well-being and performance. We found in a previous study that horses utilized she...

This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public shelters in New York City. Through matching administrative shelter records with data on releases from New York State prisons and New York City jails, 23.1% of a point-prevalent shelter population was identified as having had an incarceration within the previous two-year period. Persons enteri...