The plant-pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa was first reported in Europe in 2013, in the province of Lecce, Italy, where extensive areas were affected by the olive quick decline syndrome, caused by the subsp. pauca. In Alicante, Spain, almond leaf scorch, caused b...

Extreme sea levels are a significant threat to life, property, and the environment. These threats are managed by coastal planers through the implementation of risk mitigation strategies. Central to such strategies is knowledge of extreme event probabilities. Typically, ...

AbstractModeling policyholders’ lapse behaviors is important to a life insurer, since lapses affect pricing, reserving, profitability, liquidity, risk management, and the solvency of the insurer. In this paper, we apply two machine learning methods to lapse modeling. Th...

The emergence of concepts, policies and applications like smart grid, energy communities, carbon footprint reduction, energy-efficient consumption, demand response, demand side management enables the development and implementation of algorithms and procedures dedicated ...

The use of models to try to better understand reality is ubiquitous. Models have proven useful in testing our current understanding of reality; for instance, climate models of the 1980s were built for science discovery, to achieve a better understanding of the general ...

Background: MOBI-Kids is a 14-country case–control study designed to investigate the potential effects of electromagnetic field exposure from mobile telecommunications devices on brain tumor risk in children and young adults conducted from 2010 to 2016. This work descri...

Small-area estimation is a subject area of growing importance in forest inventories. Modelling the link between a study variable Y and auxiliary variables X—in pursuit of an improved accuracy in estimators—is typically done at the level of a sampling unit. However, for ...

Efficient life-cycle management of civil infrastructure systems under continuous deterioration can be improved by studying the sensitivity of optimised preventive maintenance decisions with respect to changes in model parameters. Sensitivity analysis in maintenance opti...

Remote areas are usually fed-in terms of electricity supply-from conventional generators that run on diesel. Recently, there is increasing interest on hybrid RES-based systems, including wind and solar power coupled with energy storage. To this end, optimum dispatching ...