The outbreak of COVID-19 and its variants has profoundly disrupted our normal life. Many local authorities enforced cordon sanitaires for the protection sensitive areas. Travelers can only cross after being tested. This paper aims to propose a method determine optimal deployment in terms minimum queueing delay time with available health testing resources. A sequential two-stage model is formula...

The Rebuilding Macroeconomic Theory Project, led by David Vines and Samuel Wills (2020), is an important, albeit long overdue, initiative to rethink a failing mainstream macroeconomics. Professors Wills, who must be congratulated for stepping up the challenge of trying make macroeconomics relevant again, call new multiple-equilibrium diverse (MEADE) paradigm Their idea start with simple models,...

High-resolution topographic data expand the potential of quantitative analysis of the earth surface, improving the interpretation of geomorphic processes. In particular, the morphologies of the channel beds of mountain streams, which are characterised by strong spatial variability, can be analysed much more effectively with this type of data. In this study, we analysed the aerial LiDAR topograp...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to and detrimental effects on medical training education. Due existing cordon sanitaire measures aimed at containing the infection, clinical courses professional examinations involving physical contact between participants with patients have been repeatedly cancelled or postponed. Herein, we describe a tried-and-tested...