Over the past decade, terrorism risk has become a prominent consideration in protecting the well-being of individuals and organizations. More recently, there has been interest in not only quantifying terrorism risk, but also placing it in the context of an all-hazards environment in which consideration is given to accidents and natural hazards, as well as intentional acts. This article discusse...

Abstract In recent decades, cellular automata (CA) have become popular for evaluating and forecasting urban transformation over time space, especially in rapidly developing countries. These models enhance the understanding of dynamics complex interplay between land-use changes sustainability. CA help governments, planners, stakeholders to predict evaluate potential outcomes future policy altern...

This paper deals with the modeling of the long term evolution of regional energy systems in a smart city and smart grid environment. It is shown that demand response and distributed grid energy storage, driven by dynamic pricing schemes, based on locational marginal costs, can be represented in the linear programming framework of the models of the MARKAL/TIMES family. An implementation in the E...

A13 Interactions of peripheral and central μ opioid systems during emotional stress Valentina Bashkatova, Helmut Prast, Alexei Umriukhin and Sergey Sudakov Department of Reinforcement Physiology, P.K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS, 125315 Moscow, Russia Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Department of Addictive Phys...

Over a 2-year period, crossbred lambs resulting from the mating of Texel (T), Romanov (R), and St. Croix (S) rams with Polypay (P) and S ewes, were finished during the summer and late fall to determine feedlot performance and carcass characteristics. A total of 175 wether lambs of the five genotypes (R x P, R x S, S x S, T x P and T x S) were fed a high-energy diet for an average of 110 d (Expe...

The content of a course in Topology-based Geometric Modeling is presented. The key ideas are based upon simplicial notions issued from combinatorial topology. The well adequacy of these notions to geometric patches (such as Bézier patches) is pointed out. Topology and geometric notions are simultaneously presented in order to show their complementarity.

Managing complex applications over heterogeneous clouds is one of the emerging problems in the cloud era. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) aims at solving this problem by providing a language to describe and manage complex cloud applications in a portable and vendor-agnostic way. TOSCA permits to define an application as an orchestration of compo...