Risk assessment of urban areas aims at limiting the impact of harmful events by increasing
awareness of their possible consequences. Qualitative risk assessment allows to figure out …

The changing number and nature of weather- and climate-related natural hazards is
causing more communities to need to assess their vulnerabilities. Vulnerability assessments, …

Community managers and planners have an increasing need for assessing system failure
risks as they relate to fact-based information on weather extremes and climate change. We …

Natural hazards and climate change present growing challenges to community water system
(CWS) managers, who are increasingly turning to vulnerability assessments to identify, …

The ability to observe meteorological events in the polar regions of the Earth from satellite
celebrated an anniversary, with the launch of TIROS-I in a pseudo-polar orbit on 1 April 1960. …

The design of complex systems, particularly aircraft, has been evolving to incorporate the
interactions of the system with the larger environment and other systems through a method …

We present a method to create semantic representations of cascading risks of interoperable
socio-technical systems. This is based on a structured domain ontology representing socio-…

We propose the CREAM (CREAtivity Machine) software system to enhance the creativity of
experts during vulnerability and risk assessment of complex sociotechnical systems. Our …

Deep neural network (DNN) potentials are an emerging tool for simulation of dynamical
atomistic systems, with the promise of quantum mechanical accuracy at speedups of 10000 ×. …

Este artigo analisa a diminuição do espaço político da burguesia agrária e dos proprietários
de terra no interior do “bloco no poder”, processo que se inicia na década de 1980 e …