Participants in recent discussions of AI-related issues ranging from intelligence explosion to technological unemployment have made diverse claims about the nature, pace, and drivers of progress in AI. However, these theories are rarely specified in enough detail to enable systematic evaluation of their assumptions or to extrapolate progress quantitatively, as is often done with some success in...

On 12 August 2000 two explosions damaged the Russian submarine, the Kursk. The largest event was well recorded at seismic networks in northern Europe, which we then modeled. We developed a hybrid method based on generalized ray theory that treats an explosive source embedded in a fluid and recorded along continental paths. Matching record sections of observations with synthetics, we obtain an e...

Correspondence It would appear that four bodies are concerned , the driver, the public, the insurance companies, and the doctors. The first three might be taken together, for I understand that the insurance companies are no more concerned with the elderly driver as an insurance risk than with anyone else; in fact if the amount of premium required is a criterion he is considered to be less of a ...

background economic consequence analysis is vital for recognizing pipeline comprehensive risk analysis and emergency response planning. objectives the purpose of this study was to estimate economic loss due to fire and explosion in petrochemical feed and product pipelines. materials and methods the present study which performed on 47 pipelines of a petrochemical special zone, pertinent pipeline...

This ethnographic vignette, part of a special section on flash ethnography, describes the responses bystanders and security state to an explosion at gas station in Fallujah, Iraq, during author's fieldwork 2021–2022.

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the challenge of transferring know-how, theories and methods from design research to the design processes in information science and technologies. More specifically, we shall consider a domain, namely data-science, that is becoming rapidly a globally invested research and development axis with strong imperatives for innovation given the data deluge ...

The spread of online reviews, ratings and opinions and its growing influence on people’s behavior and decisions boosted the interest to extract meaningful information from this data deluge. Hence, crowdsourced ratings of products and services gained a critical role in business, governments, and others. We propose a new reputation-based ranking system utilizing multipartite rating subnetworks, t...