A core collapse in the Milky Way will produce an enormous burst of neutrinos in detectors worldwide. Such a burst has the potential to provide an early warning of a supernova's appearance. I will describe the nature of the signal, the sensitivity of current detectors, and SNEWS, the SuperNova Early Warning System, a network designed to alert astronomers as soon as possible after the detected ne...

Abstract iii Internet Technology is increasingly influencing the way we live and work. Homes having Internet access are becoming a norm everywhere. In the UK alone, there are nearly 8 million households with Internet access at home according to a new government figure. Internet access worldwide is growing at a rate of about 40 to 50 percent annually. Money investments in e-commerce by companies...

Since 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) has been steadfastly committed to providing the highest quality medical care to children. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, our regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art 279-bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, and a 54-bed hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo. CHOC...

Early Warning Intrusion Detection System (EWIS) is a distributed global scoped Internet threat monitoring system with the potential of detecting large scale malicious events as early as possible. The system’s architecture includes a network of distributed low-interaction sensors and a central server [1]. The sensors are small computing platforms [2] that by design are easy to deploy in a distri...

Since we spend so much of our time at work it is there that the first warning signs of impending mental illness are likely to appear. So, ideally, the factory floor and the office should become the 'front line' of positive mental health.

Kenya displays large spatiotemporal diversity in its climate and ecology. It follows that malaria transmission will reflect this environmental heterogeneity in both space and time. In this article, we discuss how such heterogeneity, and its epidemiological consequences, should be considered in the development of early warning systems for malaria epidemics.

slowly evolving natural hazards such as agricultural drought. Famine early warning systems transform these data into actionable policy information, enabling humanitarian organizations to respond in a timely and appropriate manner. These life-saving responses are increasingly important: In 2006, one out of eight people did not have enough food to eat and 22 million more people became sufficientl...

Cotton production plays an important role in Hebei. It straightly influences cotton farmers’ life, agricultural production and national economic development as well. In recent years, due to cotton production frequently fluctuating, two situations, “difficult selling cotton” and “difficult buying cotton” have alternately occurred, and brought disadvantages to producers, bus...

Numerous scientific research and engineering programs are being carried out globally in an effort to monitor environmental degradation, natural and anthropogenic disasters. These are part of a process to predict possible catastrophic events and help minimize their devastating impact on the environment and human life. Many of these programs, sometimes referred to as Early Warning Systems (EWSs),...