The “Joint Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans” (Joint SECAPs) introduced by the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) are voluntary tools that favour a joint approach to energy planning climate change mitigation/adaptation among municipalities in same territorial area. goal is obtain results more effective advantageous than those can be achieved individual with respect local adaptation mitigation p...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy of lung cancer patients is subject to uncertainties related to heterogeneities, anatomical changes and breathing motion. Use of deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) can reduce the treated volume, potentially enabling dose-escalated (DE) treatments. This study was designed to investigate the need for adaptation due to anatomical changes, for both standard (ST) and DE plans...

Planning discourse deeply influences urban responses to climate change, particularly within the context of global south. This article examines action plans developed by 13 Indian cities understand different scenarios that shape policies and visions governance, using analysis. We find agenda in India needs greater definitional clarity. Most require better contextual engagement with specific vuln...

Climate change is a concerning phenomenon worldwide. The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions the core of mitigation strategies that are effective countermeasures to address changing climate long term. Nevertheless, need for short-term solutions regarding adaptation (ACC) has gained growing interest scientific community and European institutions. national ACC principles being integrated plans....

This article reviews the experiences of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Tennessee before and after Medicaid managed care demonstrations began. Adapting to managed care proved challenging, but all FQHCs survived. Overall, FQHCs performed better financially than anticipated, partly because demonstrations expanded coverage to previously uninsured individuals...

Study focuses on fractal geometry, that derives its structures, elements and characteristics from nature, which includes static dynamic characteristics. Fractals as forms are able to continuously grow adapt. In architecture, “adaptation” is defined their ability accommodate new variables renewable spatial functional requirements over time. This considers one of the sustainable similar nature it...

Case oriented tutoring gives students the possibility to practice their acquired theoretical knowledge in the context of concrete cases. Accordingly, tutoring systems for individualized learning have to take the skills of students at applying their knowledge to problem solving into account. This paper describes a case-based methodology for planning tutoring processes depending on the skills of ...

This paper presents a classification-based approach to case-based reasoning. This approach has been implemented in the RESYN/CBR system whose goal is to build synthesis plans for organic molecules reusing memorised plans. Planning relies on two classification processes: ordinary or strong classification to retrieve a similar planning problem and smooth classification when the former fails. Smoo...

1 Dynamic Traffic Management In urban areas, the infrastructure often represents a bottleneck due to traffic demand exceeding available road capacities. Here, dynamic traffic management is necessary in order to provide strategies for efficient control, e.g. by applying time-dependent signal plans. The traffic load typically varies strongly throughout the day. Therefore an adaptation of the traf...