South Africa’s National Disaster Policy and international reporting requirements including the Sendai Framework for Risk Reduction 2015-2030 Sustainable Development Goals require databases on disaster losses in order to facilitate evidence-based decisions actions. Data fragmentation, gaps data availability, spatial temporal aggregations, poor quality, lack of metadata are most significant chall...

The mathematical tools of large deviation theory for rare events are illustrated with some simple examples. These include discrete and continuous Gaussian processes, importance sampling, and evolution equations of the Langevin type. Some of these methods have been used in the study of rogue surface waves but it seems that large deviation theory could have much wider application in geophysical p...

The SAP4PRISMA (Development of algorithms and products for supporting the PRISMA mission) project is one of the five research projects funded by ASI (Italian Space Agency) with the objective to develop applications capable of suitably exploiting the data acquired by the satellite hyperspectral sensor PRISMA. PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) is an earth observation sy...

nuclear facilities, though have large advantages for human being, they also creates heavy hazards. thus, the question of civil liability resulted from events of mentioned facilities are so significant. this paper studies the question of the basis and the responsible for compensation resulted from aforementioned events in international instruments, iran and french law. outcome of this study show...