Energy, water, and food are facing present and future challenges triggered by climate change, population growth, human behavior, and economics. Management strategies for energy, water, and food are possible through policies, technology, and related education. However, the links between resources (energy, water, and food) and impacting factors (population increase, human behavior, economics, and...

We have developed the NEXUS simulation environment as a tool for modeling largescale neural systems. The software is written in C and runs under UNIX. A unique aspect of NEXUS is that it is particularly suited for simulating hybrid neural models (i.e. systems integrating di erent modeling paradigms and/or architectures.) NEXUS is designed for large-scale simulations, and to facilitate model dev...

Water, energy, and food are lifelines for modern societies. The continuously rising world population, growing desires for higher living standards, and inextricable links among the three sectors make the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus a vibrant research pursuit. For the integrated delivery of WEF systems, quantifying WEF connections helps understand synergies and trade-offs across the water, ener...

Highlights Synthesize existing knowledge in defining and conceptualizing FEW Nexus. Provide scientists practitioners the domains with tools to define conceptualize. The study provides narrow-broad definitions simple-complex conceptualization frameworks for Abstract. Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are fundamental society’s functioning understanding them is crucial sustainable development supp...

Considering the way architectsArchitects and urban designersDesigners work is critical to implementation of Food-Energy-Water (FEW)-research when imagining future Futures citiesCities. Current FEW-research places emphasis on decision support systemsDecision systems, backed by quantification Quantifications driven approaches analyse FEW-nexusFEW-nexus. However, it forgets heuristicHeuristic, ite...

Simard et al. (2011) have produced a comprehensive data set and analysis concerning mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae)-caused mortality and associated crown fire feedbacks in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)-dominated forests. Misapplication of the NEXUS fire modeling system (Scott and Reinhardt 2001) results in the suspect conclusion that active crown fire (perpetuation of flam...

The energy-water nexus has been studied predominantly through discussions of policy options supported by data surveys and technology considerations. At a technological level, there have been attempts to optimize coupling points between the electricity and water systems to reduce the water-intensity of technologies in the former and the energy-intensity of technologies in the latter. To our know...

_______________________________________ The relative behavior of surface-crown fire spread rate modeling systems used in three fire management applications—CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread), FlamMap and NEXUS— is compared using fire environment characteristics derived from a dataset of destructively measured canopy fuel and associated stand characteristics. Although the surface-crown mode...