Building Information Models (BIMs) are becoming the official standard in the construction industry for encoding, reusing, and exchanging information about structural assets. Automatically generating such representations for existing assets stirs up the interest of various industrial, academic, and governmental parties, as it is expected to have a high economic impact. The purpose of this paper ...

of key findings 3 1.The economic cycle, structural change and industrial injuries: a theoretical overview 5 A Industrial injuries and the Economic Cycle 5 B Industrial Injuries and Structural Influences 9 C Worker and Firm Characteristics 19 D Concluding comments 23 2. Multivariate analyses of industrial injuries: a review of the empirical evidence 25 A Empirical Methodologies 25 B Industrial i...

The existence of common factors in international bond markets is an important cause for modelling different term structures of interest rates jointly. This paper investigates the common factors of US and UK treasury yields in the period of 1983 to 2012. A principal component analysis motivates the type of joint ATSM for modelling the yield curves of two distinct economies. In sum, two common fa...

The paper is devoted to the presentation of methods of economic time series analysis and modelling using the Box-Jenkins methodology, the signal processing approach and the feedforward conventional/fuzzy neural network technique. Some results on our research on time series modelling with emphasis on potential improving forecast accuracy are presented here. The assessment of the particular model...

OBJECTIVE To summarise evidence describing the cost-effectiveness of population-based interventions targeting sodium reduction. METHODS A systematic search of published and grey literature databases and websites was conducted using specified key words. Characteristics of identified economic evaluations were recorded, and included studies were appraised for reporting quality using the Consolid...

To determine whether the recommended screening interval for diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the UK can safely be extended beyond 1 year. Systematic review of clinical and cost-effectiveness studies. Nine databases were searched with no date restrictions. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, prognostic or economic modelling studies which described the incidence and progression of DR...

Neighborhoods within 2 km of most central business districts of U.S. metropolitan areas experienced population declines from 1980 through 2000 but have rebounded markedly since 2000 at greater pace than would be expected from simple mean reversion. Statistical decompositions reveal that 1980-2000 departures of residents without a college degree (of all races) accounted for most of the declines ...

Understanding trends in environmental quality is important for individuals and policymakers. Typically, trends in environmental quality are determined solely through comparisons of unconditional or conditional mean pollution levels. However, reaching unambiguous conclusions on the basis of only the first moment of the (unconditional or conditional) distribution is problematic since it ignores w...

Nearly one in three security practitioners believe that the organization they work for under-funds information security efforts. Rational choice and economic models have been developed to help decision makers determine the optimal amount they should spend to protect a set of information assets. These models presume investment decisions are rationally made, despite long-standing behavioral and d...

Coastal zones around the globe experience rapid development and change, and the Mediterranean, and in particular the Southern and Eastern parts, is undergoing dramatic demographic and related socio-economic development with growing and conflicting demands on natural resources. This leads to often irreversible degradation of these resources including the littoral and sub-littoral zones and thus ...