Iraq C rude Oil Exports – 2018 (October, November, December)

Cover vol. 15, no. 6, December 2018

Forecasting October–November Caribbean hurricane days

[1] October–November Caribbean hurricane activity can have profound impacts on the region through loss of life and devastation of property. Large‐scale climate parameters associated with active late seasons in the Caribbean are investigated in this paper. Among the primary features that are noted are atmospheric and oceanic conditions typical of La Niña and a larger‐than‐normal Atlantic Warm Po...

Wind in November, Q Fever in December

Q fever, a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, can be transmitted from animal reservoirs to humans by the inhalation of infected aerosols. We investigated the epidemiology of Q fever in the Bouches-du-Rhone district of southern France, particularly the role of wind and rainfall in C. burnetii transmission. During the winter of 1998 to 1999, an unexpected number of cases were diagnos...

Cabin Crew Safety November-December 1990

In everyday speech, the phrases “human factors” and “the human factor” frequently refer to individual quirks of behavior which may be irrational and difficult to explain and which can be called upon, in the absence of any hardware failure, to account for unfortunate events such as accidents. Implicit in this everyday usage is the notion that behavior is unpredictable and that the addition of a ...

An Introduction to the October-December issue

WELCOME to the last issue of 2017, the second extended issue of this year which brings together 12 papers. We start the issue with two survey papers that offer deep analyses of popular research areas. Robert Bodily and Katrien Verbert present a “Review of Research on Student-Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards and Educational Recommender Systems”. Research into systems that track learning anal...